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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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    What is evil ?

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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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    That Eye, The Sky

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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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    Aquinas and Philosophy

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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 augustine theodicy

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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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    The mere existence of a greater being‚ God has been a debate for longer than almost any other scientific in history. We are told that McCloskey refers to arguments as proofs and often implies that they cannot definitively establish the case for God‚ so therefore they should be abandoned. He says that because these arguments/debates‚ have no proof he dismisses the term argument and refers to them as “proofs”. McCloskey states that theists do not believe in God because said proofs but rather than as

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    Is God real?

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    ‘God is not real’: A philosophical question is a question that has no right or wrong answer‚ a philosophical question makes you think more deeply to come up with an answer. People will have different answers depending on what they believe. ‘God is not real’ is a philosophical question because this question doesn’t immediately make you think of a particular physical object. This question has no right or wrong answer. Different people might have different responses to philosophical questions because

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    Essay on Job s

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    Maria Gonzalez Minister Brantley November 29‚ y God Appears To Job Job gets the audience with God that he has been asking for. It does not answer his question whether he deserved the suffering he experienced. Job realizes the fault is his for expecting to know the answer‚ not God’s for failing to provide it. “ I have uttered what I did not understand‚ things too wonderful to me‚ which I did not know” (Job 42:3). Perhaps it is just that he is so overwhelm by the presence of God that he no longer

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    Biblical Worldview Essay

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    Biblical Worldview Essay Genesis is the first book of the bible‚ and shows how God created and shaped this world. There is so much information in this great book‚ but there are specifics on our world‚ identity‚ relationships‚ and civilization itself. I will be correlating not only what Genesis says about these things‚ but also what they do for me in my day-to-day life in which I try to live as Christ has called me. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1 ESV). The first

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