God
God is the supremely good Creator of good natures, and he is also the Creator of evil. God caused the devil to be evil. God foresaw the good, which he himself would bring out of his evil. God saw this was coming when he created him to be good, so when we turned bad God had arranged of him and how he would be make use of him. God knew how everything was going to turnout; he even saw man's evil. God knew that man will one day change and he foresaw the evil in him before it happened. He created man and the evil that was coming from it. God had a place ready for this also.
Nothing would have been made if God did not know it was going to be good. God is sees what is good, he knew what he was creating, and one day it will be good. Plato said that when the universe was completed, God was filled with joy. God was blessed by his creation; he had approved the structure of the universe and planed it this way. God created the universe, as it is said, with one word. God said, "Let there be light," and let appeared. After God had created the light, he had said, "it was good."
The people oppose His rule are called God's enemies. They are his enemies by their will to oppose him; they are not able to hurt him. God is always unchangeable; he is without any pain in the world. They people that resist God, and God's will are evil to themselves, they are not evil to God. To God, no evil is able to hurt him. They people that don't believe him, are creating trouble for themselves, they are escaping the truth. We are able to say that though vice cannot injure the unchangeable good, it can injure nothing but good. After this is said, we are also able to say that vice cannot be in the highest good, and cannot be but in some good.
Things solely good can exist, but things that are solely evil, can never exist. For those things that have an evil will, are in some way evil, but their natures are in some way good. The evil that is created by God has to have a reason behind it. He had to create the evil to some what help the good.
The probability of rational belief in God have been wrestled with by great minds ranging from Aristotle, Augustine, Wilhelm Leibniz and Aquinas, to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Rene Descartes, John Locke, George Berkeley, Friedrich Hegel, Blaise Pascal, William James, Thomas Reid, Auguste Comte, Johann Wittgenstein, Arthur Schopenhauer, Martin Heidegger, and Alvin Plantinga and emerged from the flames of uncertainty and the tests of evidentialism still convinced that religious belief is
various formats, tell of the nature of all things involving gods, men, and the world that surrounded the people of the time. Religious text, like the Hebrew Bible, tell stories of an all-powerful god. In Psalms he is celebrated and praised, his relationship to
God? According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, God is “a being or object believed to have more than natural attributes and powers and to require human worship; specifically: one controlling a particular aspect or part of reality.” (“God”). For a philosopher, however, this concept has proven to be more than a little difficult to solve. According to O’Brien in his book An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge, “The philosophy of religion is (in part) concerned with whether such a belief is justified
brought up in. ‘The atmosphere was one of frequent prayer, emotional repression, and formality’. So Russell used his writing as a medium to vent out. Over the next few years he wrote numerous essays; one which perhaps stood out the most was “Is There a God?” Reconciling faith with science and logic has always been problematic. With the advancements in the world of science and the emergence of philosophy, some people started to view science and religion as two mutually exclusive entities. In an era when
He promised to return from the dead, if his people needed him and called him. Osofisan makes Anlugbua the god of the elements, which to some extent corresponds to Poseidon’s position in Euripides’s drama.On the surface of things, then, it is the interrelations between the gods that direct their actions. The human world is merely their playground, and the mortals must follow the whims of the gods. This fact is summed up by Shakespeare when he says through the character of King Lear “Osofisan’s play
Anatheism Theism is the belief in a God who is the creator of all things. Atheism, on the other hand, is the belief that there is no God or creator of all things. Throughout history there has been quite the battle between these two ways of thinking. Theist rely mostly on faith for what is true while atheists defend themselves with scientific thought. Some religious thinkers have even changed their stance on what they believe is true. Others can not seem to make up their minds and switch back and
recent years, evidence refuting the possibility of the existence of God have become the cause of many clashes, accusing at the same time anyone who dares to say that he believes in God, a man who believes illusions and irrational.Karl Marx stressed that everyone who believes in God must suffer from a mental disorder which affects its ability to correct thinking.The psychiatrist Sigmund Freud wrote that a person who believes in God the Creator has the illusion and asserts itself in this belief because
following paragraphs, i will contrast the God of Epictetus, and the God of Augustine, and in the end, my stand will be clear. Epictetus and Augustine both identify God on basic level. Epictetus says, "Where the essence of God is, there too is the essence of good. What is the essence of God?......Right Reason? Certainly. Here then, without more ado, seek the essence of good." He says strive for goodness, live in conformity with it, and you will find God. God is the vital force that creates all
The Hebrew Bible explores the changing personalities of God. The personalities of God range from an optimistic and creative God in the first creation story in Genesis to a destructive and regretful God during the story of Noah and the ark. God’s personalities are not black and white; he gives tests, such as when he asks Abraham to kill his own son because God was jealous of the possibility of Abraham loving his son more than him. Though Gods personalities can differ in the Hebrew Bible, he always
statements established about the unseen and natural forces since the beginning of time. It gave rise to questions such as: Do aliens exist? Is there a world of the unseen? Life after Death and the most popular question since the beginning of times, Does God exists? And the answer is ‘yes’. Here is how I will justify my stance. Imagine yourself walking in the middle of a desert, which shows no signs of life regardless of which ever direction your eyes turn to. When, suddenly, you see something reflecting
The Existence of a God Throughout history, the worship of gods has been a part of daily life even amidst those cultures that have been considered "savage". The reactions, movement, existence, comparisons, purposes, and common beliefs of the world show that there must be a god. The existence of a god is an irrefutable fact. Sir Isaac Newton stated that "every action has a reaction." Therefore every reaction is formed from an action which€in and of itself is a reaction to a previous action
something outside of ourselves that we must take into account. "Thinking in light of God's existence and his self-revelation is what it means to have a Christian mind".White, J. E. (2006). A mind for God. In my life I believe thinking like a Christian is trying to see the world and the people in it, the way God sees us. The book describes it as seeing the world in a light of faith. As hard is it may seem sometimes, I try to view the world as a people who are broken. Before I get out of my car in the morning
through the fact that the existence of God is an extraordinary claim, hence in the absence of extraordinary evidence the saying that God exists may be regarded as false. 1.If a claim is extraordinary, then in the absence of extraordinarily strong evidence in its favor, the claim may be considered false. 2.The claim that God exists is an extraordinary claim. 3.Therefore, in the absence of extraordinarily strong evidence in its favor, the claim that a god exists may be considered false. 4.There
Mission of God When one comes across the question “Who is God for them?” they could present a lot of definitions on what they think God is. To some, they would revere God as the Supreme Being that has created the whole universe in seven days. Some would note that He is the Loving, Caring, Sympathetic and Ever-Forgiving God that watches over us and guides us away from the darkness of our hearts. Many would state that He is the only Divine Being that everyone must obey and worship. This answer many
Greek Gods Gods have existed almost since the beginning of mankind, as people had things that they worshiped such as the sun, the moon, and many other things. To me the Greeks had the most unique gods, because they had many gods for many different things such as love, war, etc. The gods were almost like human beings as they interacted in the lives of the people they watched over and the people they cherished. The gods were said to have mixed with the humans to make half mortal and half immortal