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Belief in the Gods and Plato's Practice of Open Inquiry

has many flaws. There is question as to whether or not the method really gets to the truth at all. In fact, one has to wonder whet...

Should The Church Be Marginal To Society

of England. If something that catastrophic were to happen today, would the Prime Minister respond to save the church? One can onl...

The Gods of the Iliad and the Bhagavad-Gita

without specifically worrying about success or failure, "they cannot be stained by action" (Harrison, 1996). Hearing this, Arjuna ...

God and Sin

God says, "Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil" and then "sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to til...

Wiencek/On George Washington

than "anywhere else" (Henriques 414). However, the "bad news" is that amidst Wienceks narrative there are numerous errors, as well...

Relationship Between God And Man - The Koran

it instructs people to accept Gods sovereignty and to submit to Gods will (Poonawala 2006). If God created everything, then, it fo...

Without God, Would Morality be Possible?

existence as fact. However, the existence of God still remains unproven; the Cosmological Argument has been raging for centuries a...

Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the Gods: “The Epic of Gilgamesh”

established and has sex with a woman and thus loses some of his superior strength. He became more human but "his understanding had...

Herodotus and Ancient Leaders

of the Persian Empire" (Herodotus, 2006). Herodotus begins his story with "an account of the first western monarch to enter into c...

Peter Kreeft/Fundamentals of Faith

one thing causing another to come into existence. While scientists can argue persuasively that the Big Bang was the beginning of t...

Evil in a World Created by God, Who is Good

for permitting evil; a reason of which we are not aware. And as long as this is logically possible, there is no contradiction betw...

Jesus & Worship, Romans 12, Etc.

Testament, these words generally refer to "service associated with the work done in the temple."6 In the New Testament, these word...

Accepting God and Conflict Resolution

"probably influence a greater number of important decisions than do statistical projects, opinion polls, consultants reports or ev...

Animals and Animal Imagery in "Their Eyes Were Watching God"

the wind like a plume" (Hurston , p. 2). She is walking down the street of her hometown under the disapproving eyes of the townspe...

Jesus The Son Of God

age 12, Jesus was found in the Temple teaching Priests and Scribes about the law (Scott, 2000). In his very first chapter, Matthe...

Nietzsche And Kierkegaard: Compare/Contrast

- while a religious man himself - strongly believed to reflect mankinds futile passion toward Gods plan and the failure to realize...

Eternal Happiness and God

In ten pages free will and God are analyzed in this philosophical essay with a critical examination of theories by Hume, Kierkegaa...

Third Meditation of Rene Descartes

In five pages Descartes' Meditation III is analyzed in terms of affirmations, denials, knowledge, and the existence of God. There...

Miracles and David Hume

In twelve pages the impact of Hume's arguments regarding miracles on religious thought is assessed in terms of whether or not God ...

Philospher David Hume

In five pages David Hume's contention that there is no God is countered by an opposing argument. Two sources are cited in the bib...

God and Nature According to Baruch Spinoza

In seven pages this paper examines the perspectives of this seventeenth century philosopher in terms of man's natural existence an...

Existence of God

In ten pages this paper argues in favor of the existence of God. Eight sources are cited in the bibliography....

An Argument Against the God Existence Proof by Kierkegaard

In three pages the writer criticizes Kierkegaard's argument and counters the philosophical logic used in the contention that reaso...

G.W. Leibniz's Theory of Monads

This paper addresses Leibniz's Monad theory of a harmonious universe, constructed of infinite monads (units), ascending to the Sup...

Paley's 'Watchmaker' Argument

In a paper consisting of three pages the existence of God as it is presented in the 'Watchmaker' argument is critiqued with extens...

Islamic Beliefs and the Five Pillars of Wisdom

he refused Gods command to bow down to Adam" (Horn, 2004). This is slightly different from Christian theology, which maintains tha...

Rene Descartes and the "Evil Demon" Argument

do know for certain that objects exist, we must know of them through the mind and not the senses (Important arguments ...). Desca...

Psalm 54 Exegesis

verse is the Vow of Praise: "I will sacrifice a freewill offering to you; I will praise your name, O LORD, for it is good" (v 6). ...

Culture and Humanity: Things Fall Apart and The Gods Must Be Crazy

that offer the viewer/reader a different look at the western worlds involvement in other cultures. In offering these different v...

Affliction Thoughts and Waiting for God by Simone Weil

In six pages this paper examines affliction in terms of social, physical, and spiritual as contemplated by Simone Weil in Waiting ...