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In six pages this paper argues that a morally omnipotent and perfect God is not possible because of the existence of evil. Eight ...
the ultimate good. If God has created finite spirits endowed with free will, it must be expected that this free will is going to...
Most people like an ordered existence. It makes them feel comfortable with the real uncertainty of life. Descartes made "doubt" a ...
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...
In four pages this paper presents an autobiography of Saint Augustine and also considers his arguments on the existence of God....
conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...
do know for certain that objects exist, we must know of them through the mind and not the senses (Important arguments ...). Desca...
well as atrocities instigated by one group of human beings against another or by individuals, one can often hear the comment that ...
One of the questions that has plagued theologians, Biblical scholars, philosophers and others has to do with God and evil. How can...
choice of Adam and Eve to disobey Gods commandment (Law, 2007). According to Augustine, their acts brought about two crucial conse...
to God or to some type of "Ultimate Reality" (16). Such an experience differs from religious insight in that a religious insight ...
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...
In four pages this paper discusses how God's existence is argued through epistemology with Thomas Aquinas' arguments providing evi...
In six pages the proof Descartes offered that God exists is considered but other relevant issues such as why he would have been mo...
In five pages God's existence as it is considered within the context of Mortimer Adler's How to Think about God A Guide for the 20...
the side of the road in the midst of miles of cornfields. It is a bright, sunny afternoon and the prairie seems benign after the c...
In three pages the writer criticizes Kierkegaard's argument and counters the philosophical logic used in the contention that reaso...
of the foundational ideas of philosophy. According to him, the problem of evil posed a philosophical threat to the design argumen...
God is simply incongruous with the fact that evil is a very real component of our world. Those that point out this incongruity co...
broke the argument down in a much easier argument (Palmer, 2002). Descartes began with the premise that God is the only being who ...
experiences were possible (Gogan, 2006). This author indicates this in the following: "Kant gets rid of the usual foundation for r...
course, defines that which is proper conduct, it distinguishes right from wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves so...
a cause. The best solution for the primal cause of the universe is God; therefore, God exists. However, this brings up the questio...
from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...
that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...
at the bottom of the ladder, and humanity at the top, by virtue of the faculty of reason (Augustine of Hippo, 2001). After carefu...
conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...