YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Rational Ground for the Belief in God
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Testament Law and the Ten Commandments express this relationship (Out of Egypt, 2003). One of the first examples of Gods...
Arguments for the Existence of God Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is known as one of the most influential Western philosophers today....
vision of the natural world in which Gods presence can be seen as flowing through it like an electric current. This presence can b...
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...
This will be my name forever; it has always been my name, and it will be used throughout all generations" (Exodus 3:15). "God rep...
Canonization (Canonization Information, 2002). This step is key because this is what often distinguishes a mere "accident" from a...
that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...
the universe and the cells of life on the planet, it was assumed that this enormous and highly intricate mechanism had a designer ...
of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...
come from western society and not conform to the lifestyle of the Muslims there. Not wearing veils was seen as immoral (1969). If ...
are already well acquainted with the Torah, his book provides an excellent introduction for those that are only somewhat familiar ...
that there is "within the human mind, and indeed by natural instinct, an awareness of divinity," that "God himself has implanted i...
cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...
Goddess). She even enhances his physical appearance in order to assure he gets home. "Once Odysseus reaches the city that Nausi...
- the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end; there is no other Lord but Him, He is God over heaven and over earth and onl...
dot.coms are in great part responsible for the changes. These young people shed the suits and adopted street-wise jargon, flauntin...
idea that nothing comes from nothing. Reality in itself must come from a cause that is at least equal if not more so than its effe...
is Anselms primary opponent in his argument regarding the existence of God. Kants separation between the analytic and the synthet...
constant when the resultant external force acting on the system is zero" and if the system is the universe there are no external f...
various things as they approach in diverse ways toward something that is the greatest, just as in the case of hotter (more hot) wh...
youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...
(Garrett(1)). In addition these gods possess many human traits such as jealousy and envy. As Garrett(1) states, "These gods, mo...
be a less sure guide than revelation; however, Aquinas did believe it possible to reach certain truths without the aid of revelati...
even more challenging. He takes dualism to its logical end by insisting that we not only cannot prove that the matter exists, but ...
He asserted that evidence that God exists in a singular or plural context because it has become universally accepted as truth (135...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...
controversial writings on religion and morality (Hume, 2002). In fact, he continued to turn out essays and critical writings on ev...