Essays 211 - 240
vision of the natural world in which Gods presence can be seen as flowing through it like an electric current. This presence can b...
God wills at any particular moment." To this proposition, Nielsen poses three questions: 1. Is being willed by God the, or even a,...
Arguments for the Existence of God Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is known as one of the most influential Western philosophers today....
Testament Law and the Ten Commandments express this relationship (Out of Egypt, 2003). One of the first examples of Gods...
supporters of the argument from design see a babys perfect little fingers with unique fingerprints and the fact that the honey bee...
argue Gods existence within its own definition. Without any sort of relationship with other concrete statements, the entire argume...
them somehow" (Ancient Greek Religion and Mythology, 2003). For example, "The Egyptian goddess Isis was especially popular in Athe...
she would give him a whipping with a belt. These beatings only reinforced Willies belief that the best way to settle problem situa...
his book, Does God Exist God: The Oldest Question, that yes, God does exist 2000). OMalley seems to be addressing his comments to ...
of the world (1993). Yet, one can see this in action in smaller ways. Another way to look at the world is through the model called...
the universe reveals that the natural world provides a graduated scale of existence, from lower beings to those that are higher or...
do not even attempt to explain it. You either believe or you dont. The Doctrine of the Holy Trinity evolved over many years and ...
second question is "what is your sphere of influence in the society according to your purpose?" The answer to this involves the ow...
scholars. In Matthew 25, Jesus says that when the hungry are fed and the blind can see and the naked are clothed, that will signif...
reflecting the image of Christ? An examination of scripture reveals that these two ideas are not contradictory. Rather, the idea o...
evil, was literally personified in the body of evil curses, evil spirits and superstitions. Now, of course, for the most part peop...
is a rather immense task that philosophers have been dealing with for quite some time. The fact that no one can know the answer f...
under the dominion of God. However, nothing in scripture -- or history for that matter -- suggests that human beings are similar...
a variety of stories in a variety of ways. First, Dionysus is a contradictory god. He does things that might surprise people bec...
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;...
conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...
Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...
believed deeply in the value of ethics as it related to humans in the natural world. His concept of forming an adequate ethical c...
that he be deceived since God is supremely good. Nevertheless, it does appear to Descartes that there is a good possibility that G...
from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...
experiences were possible (Gogan, 2006). This author indicates this in the following: "Kant gets rid of the usual foundation for r...
broke the argument down in a much easier argument (Palmer, 2002). Descartes began with the premise that God is the only being who ...
was very connected to a slave culture yet also grew up in a land that was supposedly more free in relationship to the African Amer...
in this instance French Dakar-Niger railroad owners (toubabs) versus impoverished workers in pre-Independence era Senegal who soug...
than a man can do the same for God, if there is a God. In essence, if God exists then God is a being that is capable of creating a...