moral beliefs‚ God‚ an individual‚ and also many others can determine what is thought to be good or bad. God as well as the individual defines what the good is. James Rachels believes that being a child of God and also an autonomous moral agent is completely incompatible. His argument is that one cannot fully worship a God without giving up one’s own moral standards. Rachels declares that if one confirms that there is‚ indeed‚ a God‚ the thought in itself makes you a servant of god. Working in full
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world comes from free wills other than God. In Greg’s defense he states that God created humanity and chooses to give each individual his or her own freedom. With the freedom that‚ God allows us to experience true love and to be able to deal with the possibility of having the evil we have in the world today. Edward’s questions about God brought another objection about how God whether he knows or does not know the future. He states that God could have prevented all evil by not creating all the bad
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Best Explanations Approach – Existence of God is the best explanation for certain effects we see in the universe. I can only prove what I can see‚ taste‚ hear – but electrons (we can’t see‚ taste or hear it); black holes (we can’t see‚ taste or hear) we just see the effects that we see that the best explanation is that there are electrons and black holes and god. Defeasible – Possibly could be wrong. Defeater‚ if true could defeat the argument of God’s existence. Cumulative Cases Approach
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with his knowledge of Christianity. This ideology later became known as Augustinianism. Two of St. Augustine’s most notorious pieces are Confessions and The City of God. His book‚ Confessions‚ is essentially an autobiography in which St. Augustine outlines his life and his eventual conversion to Christianity. His book The City of God was a response to criticism that Christianity was receiving about the downfall of the Roman
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God looks within the heart because He is looking for men fit to be kings in His Kingdom. God does not care what you look like on the outside‚ and most people would agree. You can be the most beautiful person on the outside and the most rotten on the inside. Looking good on the outside is not what matters‚ but what is going on the inside does matter. God wants to know what is at the center of your being‚ your heart. God is looking for a heart that possesses wisdom‚ knowledge‚ love‚ obedience‚ and
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talking about God in only negative terms. For example‚ God is not mortal; or God is not human. Both of these tell what God is not‚ instead of what he is. This is because our knowledge of God is limited by our finite human understanding‚ therefore‚ as God is out of this Universe‚ we find it extremely hard to talk about him. Saint Augustine said “If you comprehend‚ it is not God. If you are able to comprehend‚ it is because you mistake something else for God.” Via Negativa allows us to compare God to things
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is a God has been debated by many philosophers‚ religious experts‚ and even your average citizens. Many of those people have attempted to argue why God is or is not real. This paper is going to present two different arguments by the philosophers: Robin Collins and William Rowe. The first argument by Collins is an argument for the existence of God‚ who designed our incredibly complex universe. The explanation of Collin’s argument will be followed by Rowe’s argument against the existence of God‚ which
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point in the past there exists a great mystery in the human minds viz. God. Human mind had always been baffled with the concept of God. Many curious seekers have tried to put their reasoning in black and white either to prove or disprove the existence of God. Still these intellectual arguments often prove inadequate; either to prove or disprove. Through this seminar I intend to compare two different stands on the existence of God; that of Thomas Aquinas‚ the medieval philosopher‚ and Richard Dawkins
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Kevin Noble 12/03/12 Models of God Critical Analysis For my final essay assignment I have chosen to analyze Sallie McFague and her book‚ Models of God. She discusses many points in her book‚ starting with the world at large. McFague‚ being a Feminist post modern theologian‚ questions the way our faith is viewed today as well as tries to come up with her own explanation of what we view as religion and religious ideas today. She questions the decisions of society as a whole‚ much as Reinhold
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The Existence of God One of the most prominent topics that Aquinas chose to focus on was the idea of the existence of God. In his opinion‚ the existence of God was not self-evident‚ rather it had to be proven and discovered. Aquinas states that God “is that which no greater can be thought;” yet not all shared the same conclusive idea; therefore‚ God needed to be both defined and proved‚ in Aquinas’ opinion. We as humans‚ cannot start with the idea of God or with the definition‚ and by that supposition
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