Forgiving Justin Lassiter 11/5/13 Mrs. Mignon 2A Today the question is: what is forgiveness? What does it look like? What isn’t it? We have heard from Jesus that it is necessary. It is not icing on the cake of Christianity. If we don’t experience it and offer it to others‚ we will perish in our sin. So it is tremendously important to know what this is that is so essential to our eternal life. Let me begin with a definition of forgiveness. Forgiveness is not feeling angry or resentful
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Thomas Aquinas was born in 1224 and died in 1274. He wrote The Summa Theologica‚ in which he creates a huge system integrating Greek philosophy with the Christian faith. It consists of three parts; God‚ “he gives five proofs for God’s existence as well as an explication of His attributes”1‚ ethics‚ “connection between the virtuous man and God by explaining how the virtuous act is one towards the blessedness of the Beatific Vision (beata visio)”2 and Christ‚ “Christ not only offers salvation‚ but
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‘Even though there is not enough evidence to establish God’s existence‚ it is still more rational to choose to believe there is a God‚ then to believe there is not.’ Discuss. Is it rational to choose to believe in God? The proof of God’s existence has been attempted by many a philosopher and argument‚ yet on countless occasions the reason of the argument has been flawed. Philosophers such as Pascal‚ James‚ Kierkegaard‚ Plantinga and Freud each have there own arguments on the matter of whether
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Rhetorical devices Edwards-Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Rhetorical devices References rhetorical question "what are we‚ that we should think to stand before him‚ at whose rebuke the earth trembles‚ and before whom the rocks are thrown down" (Edwards‚ p1) -logos/syllogism leads to what are we? We are nothing - this instills fear metaphor "So it is easy for us to cut or singe a slender thread that any thing hangs by: thus easy it is for God‚ when he pleases‚ to cast his enemies
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‘Why is there something rather than nothing?’ Assess whether the existence of the universe requires God as a first cause? The concept that there cannot be nothing and so must be something is due to the evidence we as human beings have experienced throughout our lives; every effect ever made has had a cause. Aquinas used the laws of Motion and Design to demonstrate how every action must have a correlating reaction‚ and related this to his argument for God being the first cause – the uncaused causer
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Explain the problem of evil and Augustine’s Theodicy. What is evil? John Hick defined evil as “physical pain‚ mental suffering and moral wickedness”. The monotheistic God of Christianity supposedly possesses divine qualities of omnipotence‚ omniscience and Omni benevolence. Omnipotence means the almighty and all knowing‚ omniscience means having infinite knowledge and Omni benevolent means all loving. If God is all of these things then why is there evil? The problem of evil brings up some big
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What if? Imagine! If we could place order in Heaven‚ what would it be? Happiness‚ Love‚ Peace‚ Perfect health‚ Wealth and a formula through which all our wishes could come true. Right? Perfect! Now imagine‚ you just placed your first order. One day‚ your doorbell rings and you are running towards your door to open it. When you opened the entrance door‚ somebody smiles at you and this is the most beautiful smile you have ever seen. You look at him mesmerized and he says‚ “Hi‚ you placed an order
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Tim Winton’s that eye‚ the sky (1986) uses first person narrative techniques‚ symbolism‚ imagery and characterisation to create the persona of Morton Flack‚ the narrator and protagonist of the novel. Winton uses Ort’s narration to give the reader insights into the Flack family‚ the relationships they have and the issues that they face. As Winton develops Ort’s narration the reader is supplied with many symbolic images. The most important symbol and imagery in the novel is the sky. Prior to Henry
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Philosophy Essay Question: Explain how Thomas Aquinas tries to prove Gods Existence (30) St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) was a Catholic Italian Monk who was regarded to be one of the most important philosophers of the medieval period. Aquinas had adopted the works of Aristotle’s analysis of physical objects‚ his view of place‚ time and motion‚ his proof of the prime mover and his cosmology. He tried to connect the Christian faith together with the Philosophy of Aristotle’s work in his ’Summa
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The Augustinian theodicy is a type of Christian theodicy designed to respond to the evidential problem of evil. As such‚ it attempts to explain the probability of an omnipotent and omnibenevolent (or all-powerful and perfectly loving) God amid evidence of evil in the world. A number of variations of this kind of theodicy have been proposed throughout history‚ but their similarities were first described by John Hick‚ who classified them as Augustinian. They typically assert that God is perfectly good
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