“I hate you‚ God!” I thought to myself. “I want nothing to do with you. You might be real‚ but you are not the good Creator people portray you to be.” I did not always feel this way toward my Heavenly Father. In the first three years after my baptism‚ my walk with God was tranquil‚ blissful‚ easy even‚ and overflowing with confidence in His Word. I indulged my eyes with Scripture every chance available. Church events became the highlight of my week. The feeling of calm I experienced during sermons
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The Bible and the Word "Inspire" According to the Random House Dictionary‚ the word inspire means "to infuse an animating‚ quickening‚ or exalting influence into‚ or to communicate or suggest by a divine influence." This definition indicates‚ when applied to the scripture‚ that the stories and writings in the Bible did not come solely from the minds of the respective authors‚ but rather from a divine source. This suggests that the authors were scribes‚ reproducing what was instilled in them
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David Hume‚ a noted historian and philosopher‚ was Scotland’s most famous member of the 18th Century Enlightenment. Like Isaac Newton‚ Hume embraced radical skepticism and the inductive experimental method of scientific inquiry. He believed that everything we know comes from our senses. Hume attended Edinburgh University when he was in his teens. He hoped to become a professor‚ but was accused of being an atheist and was unable to find a position. Instead he spent his life traveling‚ tutoring‚ and
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Ontological Argument: An explanation and critical assessment Phil 361 Lec 01 Professor: Reid Buchanan Ryley Braun‚ 10013764 April 16‚ 2010 The ontological argument is an attempt to refute skepticism of God and prove His existence through reason alone. The philosopher‚ Saint Anselm‚ presented his work on the ontological argument‚ or argument from reason‚ in his text the Proslogium. The argument‚ on the surface‚ is very logically convincing and attempts to allure even the skeptic of God. Anselm
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Aquinas’s Argument During the medieval time period Christianity was practiced by over one-third of the European population. At that time‚ all European philosophers had three different types of arguments to prove the existence of God: the Ontological argument‚ which stated that God‚ by nature‚ must exist; the Teleological argument‚ which stated that the world we live in was made by intelligent design. Therefore‚ a designer must exist to be able to make such a perfect world. Lastly‚ there is the
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The cosmological argument has been used for centuries to appeal to the existence of God‚ dating back to around 350 BC. Versions have been found in Plato’s Laws‚ 893-96‚ Aristotle’s Physics (VIII‚ 4-6)‚ and Aristotle’s Metaphysics (XII‚ 1-6). St. Thomas Aquinas‚ a Dominican priest‚ theologian‚ and philosopher‚ also included his version of the argument in Summa Theologica‚ along with four other contentions for the existence of God. The argument has been reasserted by Enlightenment writers such as Georg
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cosmological argument for the existence of God (21) The Cosmological argument is an argument that attempts to prove the existence of God‚ it is also known as the causation argument which argues that as all events require a cause‚ if the universe is an event it must have a cause and that cause is God. The argument is a posteriori because its based on evidence that already exists in the universe. The cosmological argument is also inductive because the conclusion is what is most probable
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The story of his life In the young Chin Peng interest once read print materials and highlights developments in China. At that time a dispute between Chiang Kai Shek and Mao Tse Tung. Japan army seized Manchuria and China dominate the interior. China country is the birthplace of the father and his ancestors in the Kwantung. During his youth 15 years‚ Chin Peng have a feeling that is close to the western educated nationalist Chiang Kai Shek who dominate the southern China and Taiwan. But
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measure recommends $19.4 billion for NASA‚ which amounts to a $1.6 billion increase above FY2012 funding. The increase is primarily due to shifting the NOAA satellite program to NASA”. They fund NASA and the United States Air Force space programs. They also lend aid to some private sector companies in helping to develop more efficient ways to travel from the surface of the earth to outer orbit. Just in this year alone NASA seeks another 17 billion which is a 5.7 increase to explore planets such
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Pool of Argument Topics This page contains the Argument topics for the Analytical Writing section of the GRE® revised General Test. When you take the test‚ you will be presented with one Argument topic from this pool. Each Argument topic consists of a passage that presents an argument followed by specific task instructions that tell you how to analyze the argument. The wording of some topics in the test might vary slightly from what is presented here. Also‚ because there may be multiple versions
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