Nice Student PHL 267 09/19/12 The reason for God- Timothy Keller “How could God Allow suffering” If God is good‚ why is there so much suffering and evil doing in the world today? Look at 9/11‚ why couldn’t God stop the terrorist’s from doing these awful things to our beautiful nation? At one point in our lives we all have experienced some sort of suffering‚ weather it may be the passing of a family member‚ getting robbed‚ not living in livable conditions‚ or just plain dislikes
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of Christianity as supernaturalism and some such as Gentsler have even continued to state that Christianity cannot be described in terms of supernaturalism at all. Shortly‚ those for Christianity as supernaturalism have tended to form a religious argument and those opposed mainly form their criticisms on the rational interpretation of the theory- stating its various uncertainties and supposed contradictions. 2.2. Problem statement Since there is such a strong criticism against supernaturalism
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TITLE: Western Concepts of God DISCUSSANT/s: Lopez‚ Abby Domingo‚ Jetter Alexis Barreda‚ Maria Claudette Obias‚ Stephanie Tiamzon‚ Carlo Listana‚ Christian Dave Jacobo‚ Michelle Samson‚ Brixton WESTERN CONCEPTS OF GOD Western concepts of God have ranged from the detached transcendent demiurge of Aristotle to the pantheism of Spinoza. Nevertheless‚ much of western thought about God has fallen within some broad form of theism. Theism is the view that there is a God which is is the creator and
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Descartes: Proof of God’s existence and human error Unlike considerations emanating from theologians as to how proof that their God‚ defined as an active being by itself‚ was not an invention‚ the demonstration Descartes does regarding the proof of the existence of God and therefore the human error is simple: it shows God from man. Descartes says‚ "I would not have the idea of an infinite substance‚ me as a finite being‚ if it had been placed in me by some substance that was truly infinite."
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indefinable something which we all feel but which we do not know. To me God is Truth and Love‚ God is ethics and morality. God is fearlessness‚ God is the source of light and life and yet. He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist. He transcends speech and reason. He is a personal God to those who need His touch. He is purest essence. He simply Is to those who have faith. He is long suffering. He is patient but He is also terrible. He is the greatest democrat
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Austin Gott Phil 1030 (MWF@10:45) Position Paper #1 I. At this moment in history both atheists and theists are wrong in their proclamations of the non-existence or existence of the traditional Christian God. II. Simply put we do not have enough evidence to know whether God exists or not‚ there are too many epistemological issues to pair with the limitations of human exploration. While many questions can be asked to raise inquiry about Gods existence‚ there are none that demonstrate it
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were wasted on you). Most of the developed world is or was Christian; historically Science owes much to Christianity‚ however‚ over the last 100 years this has not been the case‚ so what you need to ask is- can you make a case (from facts) that atheism in the last 100 years has been more beneficial than theism‚ as all that I hear from new atheists is how bad their life is‚ like you‚ they are miserable‚ however‚ you have got your dream so live it‚ don’t concern yourself what I do or am‚ as I have
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errors are simply wrong about the facts. A fallacy can occur in any kind of discussion‚ argument‚ or reading. For the purposes of this paper‚ the fallacies discussed will pertain to arguments. A fallacious argument is an argument in which the premises given for the conclusion do not provide the needed degree of support (Atheism Web). Fallacies of distraction attempt to distract from the falsity of an argument by the illegitimate use of logical operators (Stephen ’s Guide to Logical Fallacies).
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that they could be grasped only through divine revelation." This was a new view on the faith and reason argument contradictory to both Abelard with his belief that faith should be based on human reason‚ and the Bernard of Clairvaux who argued that one should only need faith. Aquinas‚ in the Summa Theologiae‚ stated that‚ "Man should not seek to know what is above reason." His argument was‚ in very simple terms‚ that men need reason to understand all of God’s truths. Yet there are certain
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original cause that requires no cause; Hence God. The third proof deals with being or not being. All things have the possibility of existing or not existing. The shirt that you are wearing now exists but there was a time when it did not. Aquinas’s argument is that for that something to go from not being to being‚ there had to be an original being to create it. For example the shirt that you wear had to be created in a factory; And to manufacture something you must “be”. So
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