Analysis Of Thomas Raoshy Book I Believe In God

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In chapter three of Thomas Raunchy book, I believe in God, it starts with an opening article of the apostles creed , “ I believe in God the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth((Thomas P. Rausch, SJ, I believe in God ,Publication Year: 200, pp 31-62)” Which is considered as the foundation of everything else which Christians believe. On the other hand, this phrase has been a cause of many debates in the church’s history and today’s world. Many religion have different views of God and how he relates to human beings and the universal. Different arguments has risen between Christians and Atheism on the existence of God. The Author of an article called Being an Atheist, H J McCloskey., “( O n Being an Atheist,” Question 1 (February 1968) : …show more content…

We also believe in God because we accept all God’s revelations to us about himself and his will for humankind. In our contemporary culture, most people has misconception that for one to recognize the existence of God is always a matter of faith, but it does not require faith for one to recognize the existence of God. One is able to know that God exist by deduction from evidence and principles observable in nature(Thomas P. Rausch, SJ, I Believe in God,Publication Year: 2008, pp3-33, My own interpretation). Many thinkers from classical to modern times have certify the existence of God as a matter of reason( Aristotle, Plato, etc.) One of the thinkers who held that man knows God exist though reason was Blaise Pascal. He was thinker , inventor and a mathematician of 17th century. His untimely in Favour of God is formulated as a wager, known as Pascal’s wager. Even though Pascal’s Wager is not a proof for the existence of God, it is a powerful reason for believing in …show more content…

the authors of the apostle creed intentions was too show the church that this was a confession of believer to a true and great God.
We believe,” the Creed says, not in some gods (as if multiple deities exist) or in a god (as if God is some vague, non relational higher power we don’t so much believe in as we hope he exists). “We believe,” it says, “in God.” Our God is the only God. He is the one true God. The way the confession is phrased asserts exclusivity and identity. This God is the God.
We are not “the maker of heaven and earth.” God is. Heaven and earth didn’t just appear in a magical moment of self-actualization; they didn’t just always exist; they didn’t just develop by a long, random chain of geological and inter-planetary happenstances. They were made by God. That’s who God is: the maker of everything. That’s (part of) what makes him God.
But, as C.S. Lewis reminds us, “We don’t believe just because a God exists; we believe because this God

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