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When I was getting older‚ I’ve always had my doubt about religion. I have a question that how people have and choose their religion. Even though Korea have provided a background for Confucianism for many thousands of years‚ most of people believe in the Christian religion and very popular with it. There are also lots of pseudo-religions that are trying to cheat other people in order to get money. So while living for about 20 years in Korea‚ most of people who are on the wrong way forced me to believe
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only a few men would know and understand this‚ so it is necessary that all men know this through Divine Revelation and faith. In a personal point of view‚ I see this interpretation the same way that I see all explanantions of religious beliefs. Religion‚ in my definition‚ is a simple way to attain the answers to the mystery in life. It holds all
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It is also synthetic as evil and suffering can be seen around us daily. There are a number of possible reasons for the problem of evil and why it causes a problem for religious believers‚ making it an inductive argument also. In his book Philosophy of Religion John Hick defined evil and suffering as “physical pain‚ mental suffering and moral wickedness” “The Rock of Theism” is what David Hume called the Problem of Evil as it is a strong argument for atheists to use against the existence of God
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Mackie in his paper Evil and Omnipotence‚ constructs an argument against the idea of the possibility of a God existing that has the characteristics laid out by the main religions: Christianity‚ Islam‚ and Judaism. These characteristics include that God is omnipotent‚ or He is capable of stopping evil‚ and omni benevolent‚ or He wants to eliminate evil and He is entirely good. Mackie systematically goes through his logical thought process as well as his response to any type of criticism or alternative
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The argument of evil is one of the most contradicting arguments in the philosophy of religion. This argument states that if evil exists how and why can God exist as well? The traditional theist believes that the definition of God is some superior being who is omnibenevolent‚ omnipotent and omniscient. This sums up to a being who is all good‚ loving‚ powerful and knowing‚ a being of such greatness is also known as God. Although this definition does create much problems to the argument of evil‚ which
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Knowing God Systematic Theology I Knowing God The study of God has been taken place for many centuries. There have been various well known theologians that have spent a life time studying theology. What is theology? Theology is the study of God. It has been a desire for many Christians to know God. It is a true fact that no one will ever know God fully. “No one knows the Son except the Father and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to
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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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JOHN HICK’S THE PROBLEM OF EVIL I. John Hick discusses in his essay The Problem of Evil‚ the objections to the belief in the existence of God is the presence of evil in the world. He begins by posing the traditional challenge to theism in the form of the dilemma: That if God was perfectly loving‚ he must wish to abolish evil‚ and being all powerful‚ is able to perfectly do so as he will its. He then proceeds to present some views regarding this issue‚ giving insights from three point of views
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find describing God difficult because God is unlike anything else that exists. Everyday language is all about ordinary things. God is not ordinary – God is often described as being HOLY. This means special. • Christianity is a MONOTHEISTIC religion (this means they believe there is only one God.) • Christians believe that GOD IS ETERNAL. This means that he has no beginning or no end. • Christians believe that GOD is OMNIPRESENT. This means that he can be everywhere at the same time.
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