Cory: Mr. Unamuno, in your work you discuss how human life is tragic and that we face the fact we will die one day. You also mention that all life is precious and that we should fight death. You have stated that the goal is not to submerged in God, but rather to possess him, to be God and that we are only capable of conceiving a human God. It seems that in this sense God is created by us to pursue our own agenda that we achieve immortality and supersede death. This supports the idea that God is a façade for us to not acknowledge that we are all suffering and shall die. If you do believe in the higher being of an all-powerful God, why must he be so human?
Miguel: I am catholic and I do believe in God. My stance is simply that as Christians we accept God into our hearts and possess Him. In a sense by doing this and believing in God, God himself lives through us. He is “human” because of this.
Cory: So based upon this response, what would you say to a flipped version of Marcel’s writing on being and having being used against Christianity? Could it be possible that by having/possessing God we are not being?
Miguel: I would have to argue the opposite. By being human and going through the agony in life, we can seek out and discover God. As stated earlier by discovering God and believing …show more content…
As Christians we seek out answers through what others call faith. In the end though they are the same thing. The thing is how do we really know what is fact and what is not? Those that seek out answers with rationality have faith in their system just as those in religions do. Things only exist because we place our trust in it through faith. By having faith in it we believe it into existence and because of that we do not grasp or understand anything. So in reality everything that we believe in, religion or not, we do not understand and we have faith in everything, religion or
Miguel: I am catholic and I do believe in God. My stance is simply that as Christians we accept God into our hearts and possess Him. In a sense by doing this and believing in God, God himself lives through us. He is “human” because of this.
Cory: So based upon this response, what would you say to a flipped version of Marcel’s writing on being and having being used against Christianity? Could it be possible that by having/possessing God we are not being?
Miguel: I would have to argue the opposite. By being human and going through the agony in life, we can seek out and discover God. As stated earlier by discovering God and believing …show more content…
As Christians we seek out answers through what others call faith. In the end though they are the same thing. The thing is how do we really know what is fact and what is not? Those that seek out answers with rationality have faith in their system just as those in religions do. Things only exist because we place our trust in it through faith. By having faith in it we believe it into existence and because of that we do not grasp or understand anything. So in reality everything that we believe in, religion or not, we do not understand and we have faith in everything, religion or