Dakota Ostler Professor Anderson Philosophy 150 22 February‚ 2013 Teleological Argument: Existence of God The teleological argument is one made for the existence of God. William Paley’s argument is based on the idea that the universe is too complicated to have been created by accident and so must have had a creator. This creator is assumed to be God‚ who has created the universe and all the parts in it serve a certain purpose. A close consideration of this argument will show that there are several
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Integrated Exercise God as a Communicator Introduction to Communication According to the article written by Dr. Fjeldstad‚ God created human to have the ability to communicate not only with each other but also with Him. God communicates with us through various senses‚ which may be different for each person. One the most common ways of communication from God is through prophets and other people. He speaks to us through messages sent through them. This way of communication acts on the sense
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Something I found very interesting about Alston’s essay on “Perceiving God” was their notion of how one’s experience of God‚ and their beliefs about the being which they call God‚ play a tremendous role in one’s understanding of God. In short‚ it seems that Alston’s views one’s religious experiences as being validated‚ and given context‚ through the context of religious beliefs they share in their culture. Thus‚ the phenomenon of belief in a religion‚ says Alston‚ has to be predicated on the phenomenon
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seem to me have dwelt upon the happiness of humanity in being endowed by the god himself; no one has said what sort of being he is who has conferred these gifts.” (Symposium‚ lines 194e). Here Agathon is referring to the facts that the previous discussed the benefits humanity has gained from Love‚ but none of them have discussed what the god of Love is like himself. Agathon goes on the discuss the very nature and virtues of god of Love. He starts
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WORD WAS WITH GOD The Word was with God – the preposition translated "with" in the Greek means literally "face to face". It was used to show intimacy in a personal relationship. This point of view is given weight by the context‚ in which the Son is said to be "in the bosom of the Father" (v. 18)‚ and thus in the ideal position to reveal the Father to the world. When the Bible says that “Jesus was with God” it refers to the wisdom that was with God. This shows the intimacy of God and his Word
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environment affect the Mesopotamians? Mesopotamia is one of the earliest human civilizations. This fertile and beautiful landscape is between Tigris and Euphrates River which flow through the now modern day Iraq. There were many reasons why Mesopotamia thrived to succeed as a civilization‚ but I will narrow it down to trade‚ food‚ and culture. How did this all get connected to the physical environment and how does the physical environment itself affect the Mesopotamians? You are just about to
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Does God command what is good because it is good‚ or is it good because God commands it? Euthyphro’s Dilemma proposes two options. Either we choose to believe that God dictates what is good and evil‚ or we choose to down grade God to a glorified messenger. This paper will explore the dilemma and show the effects of choosing either option. There are three main attributes of God that are reflected upon in this argument. The first one is that God is the creator and could have made any world he chose
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The existence of god has been a question that has ravaged mankind since we began to think logically. Many philosophers argue that there may or may not be a god‚ or that there may even be different types of gods. It is hard to say whether or not god can exist because there is a limited supply of knowledge regarding the issue. So who knows what we could possibly be missing on this journey to find the answer. Yet our way of thinking has evolved enough to allow us to grasp more complex ideas to make
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around them. They could not get answers to everything through science. If there was something that they could not understand they would use the gods and goddesses to provide an explanation. They needed these gods and goddesses to make sense in their lives. The explanations that the Greeks would use gods for splits into two general categories. They used the gods to explain natural occurring phenomena and things about nature‚ and they used them to explain social issues and human life and the course it
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I choose to read “The Other Hand of God: The Holy Spirit as the Universal Touch and Goal‚” written by Kilian McDonnell‚ monk‚ priest‚ and active contributor to ecumenical relations‚ because I have always been interested in learning more about pneumatology‚ which ia the study of the person and work of the Holy Spirit. I was also interested in reading this work because it was published in 2003‚ which makes it a more recent work compared to other suggested books for this assignment. Many scholars have
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