Essays 1 - 30
This essay is a draft for a homily that would have been delivered shortly after the tornadoes in Oklahoma in 2013. The homily disc...
In six pages this paper argues that a morally omnipotent and perfect God is not possible because of the existence of evil. Eight ...
One of the questions that has plagued theologians, Biblical scholars, philosophers and others has to do with God and evil. How can...
well as atrocities instigated by one group of human beings against another or by individuals, one can often hear the comment that ...
the ultimate good. If God has created finite spirits endowed with free will, it must be expected that this free will is going to...
did. He punished Adam and Eve for disobeying Him. As one pastor reminds us: "The Bible says that God will hold us accountable for ...
This paper argues in five pages that God is the Creator of all goodness but that he allowed evil to exist despite the fact that He...
called the Son of God" (Aherne). In John 1:49, Nathaniel, at their first meeting, referred to Jesus as the Son of God (Aherne). Wh...
something greater than humans and that is God (Donati, 2002). He offers further proof through mathematical concepts, for instance,...
goodness and evil. They are the opposite ends of a pendulum. If God existed there would be no observable evil. Since we know there...
choice of Adam and Eve to disobey Gods commandment (Law, 2007). According to Augustine, their acts brought about two crucial conse...
God is simply incongruous with the fact that evil is a very real component of our world. Those that point out this incongruity co...
of the foundational ideas of philosophy. According to him, the problem of evil posed a philosophical threat to the design argumen...
In six pages the proof Descartes offered that God exists is considered but other relevant issues such as why he would have been mo...
Christians view the human condition as being integrally tied with the fact that we were created in the image of God. While we som...
the narratives in the books to come (Friedman 295). In Genesis, everything builds on everything else. Therefore, in order to under...
theme, in fact, throughout the book, as resentments continued to simmer). Peasants, for the most part, pretty much dont know they ...
Most people like an ordered existence. It makes them feel comfortable with the real uncertainty of life. Descartes made "doubt" a ...
A devout person will say that he or she "sees" "God in all things" (Hodges 101). This person is referring to an act of "intuitive ...
This essay responds to several issues concerning King David. What was the Davidic covenant. Since David sinned, why is he consider...
Observations help the researcher to formulate initial descriptions and explanations of the phenomenon being explored; they may als...
In five pages this paper discusses the Prime Minister's controversial position regarding allowing growing numbers of Jews to settl...
of the law was marrying a Philistine. He wen to Timnah, saw a woman, and told his parents to get that woman for him to marry. His ...
A research paper addressing the portrayal of evil in Dante's Divine Comedy and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The author draws the c...
This essay discusses one of Fr. Andrew Greeley's many books. The topic of this essay is: Great Mysteries: Experiencing the Catholi...
Jews maintains a direct relation to the way in which the state of Israel exists. The combination of fear and dread that consumes ...
In five pages this paper presents a psychological analysis of Shakespeare's evil protagonist Richard III....
conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...
fit but some are wary of the effects of performance enhancing drugs and argue that it will create an unfair environment. Of cours...
In a paper consisting of seven pages the segregation imposed by Yale University dormitory regulations is considered and supported ...