The Existence of God Kimberly Mongold PHI 208 Ethics and Moral Reasoning Instructor Kenneth Mentor April 07‚ 2013 Since the beginning of time people have often questioned the meaning of life‚ how the universe was created and the purpose for the wildlife and creatures that roam the earth. These things often lead us to question the existence of God. In order to even begin to answer these complex questions we must uncover the source of all of these occurrences. In this paper I will
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Georg Brow Professor Jovanovski Phi-101 5/8/13 The Existence of God‚ and which God Does Existence The existence of God is a subject matter that most people want to know the answer to. Many great philosophers have debated about this subject for generations. Feuerbach has an interesting point of view about the subject matter. Feuerbach believes that if it can be scientifically proven then it is real or true and anything that is not proven is not real because there are no facts to back it up
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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 to be false or true. Therefore‚ both atheists and theists are wrong in their proclamations that it is possible to decipher Gods existence or not. While
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Ramsey believed that Christians are in touché with God through the means of conjecturing. Conjectures are propositions that are not proven. But‚ in the side of the Christians they didn’t call this as conjecturing rather they call it Faith. If Paul Ramsey believed to what Nietzsche said‚ then both of them are applicable to what they truly believe. Simply because what they trying to prove are mere propositions that are not proven. (1st page) 2. “God has to die in order that man might be what he is
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Throughout the Life of Pi‚ Martel consistently argues for the existence of God. Pi Patel demonstrates his love and belief in God through interest in religion‚ prayer‚ and his epic survival. Pi Patel was raised Hindu‚ but as his interest in religion grew‚ his mind opened to the thought of adding beliefs into his life. “I was fourteen years old – and a well-content Hindu on a holiday – when I met Jesus Christ.” P.50. After a year of embracing Christianity‚ Pi’s passion continued to seek new
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Consistently from the dawn of human existence‚ the idea of “God”‚ or simply the questions of the place from whence the human body has come from forced any individual to consider the religious value or idea of God regarding God’s responsibility for every piece of matter in which makes up life. One of the most critical arguments that claim that there must be a God is the Kalem Cosmological argument‚ which uses the universe’s mere existence or the beginning of the universe’s existence to claim that whatever has
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either “impressions” from sensations or inner consciousness‚ or “ideas” derived by manipulating these
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divine Lord if we had not seen him yet even once? When we have said that we only believe what we can see… If you think about the quote made by man‚ “To see is to believe.” And how men believe in God‚ they’re two contradicting thoughts. We don’t see god‚ therefore why should we believe in him? What caused God to live from generations to generations when we can’t even see him‚ has anyone seen him besides the prophets? We know that we have friends‚ neighbors‚ teachers‚ parents‚ siblings‚ and other
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conveys a powerful argument regarding the existence of God. The first concept that he outlines is that since every idea must be caused‚ and if he has an idea that he isn’t the cause of‚ then something other than him must exist. The next step of Descartes’s argument states that all ideas of material reality could have only originated within him‚ but the idea of God‚ a perpetual and flawless being could not have originated from Descartes since he himself isn’t perpetual and flawless like God. Furthermore
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talks about God’s existence in his five arguments. The challenging question at hand is whether there is the well-structured argument that explains the possibility of the existence of God. There are positions that anyone would take‚ and this would be theism‚ atheism or agnosticism. Holding onto a given position will not determine the validity of the other without answering this challenging question. Since even if this position merged‚ there are no clear arguments that prove God is existing. Therefore
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