CHRISTIANITY
Claim
Transcendence is the belief that a divine realm exists outside of the universe. It is the belief that there is one God, you have a soul, and after death you go to Heaven or Hell. Christianity is one of the religions that was formed out of this belief. Christianity claims that Jesus, God the Son, came to earth to reveal the Father to us and then save us from our sins by dying on the cross about 2,000 years ago. Salvation, which is basically the deliverance from our sins, involves transformation. This transformation is from an average human being to becoming a son or daughter in Christ. We refer to Jesus as God the Son instead of Son the God because it emphasizes his divinity. By being the perfect son, He shows the Father perfectly. …show more content…
This argument is mainly saying that there should be a concept of a perfect being and that there must be a perfect standard. Anselm says that if you have the concept that God exists, that means he must exist. Otherwise you would be thinking greater than reality, which we cannot do. Because we think in terms of worst/worse/good/better/best leads us to think that a perfect standard does exist. If there is a perfect standard, which means there has to be someone who meets it, or else there would be no perfect standard at all. With all this said, that perfect being is God. The second argument is the cosmological argument. This argument was formatted by Thomas Aquinas and based off Aristotle, a fourth century BC Greek Philosopher. The cosmological argument was mainly based on the concept of cause and effect. This argument is centered on the fact that things can’t just appear out of nowhere. There is a cause for everything. Our universe isn’t eternal because it had to be created at one point I time, meaning that it hasn’t always existed. With all this being said, there had to be a first …show more content…
Christopher Hutchins tries to minimize C.S. Lewis by saying that he openly trusted the documents (the New Testament). He goes onto explain that the birth narratives in Matthew and Luke contradict each other. In Matthew, is says Jesus was born in Bethlehem, taken to Egypt, and then to Nazareth. In Luke, is says Jesus was born in Bethlehem and then later taken to Nazareth without mentioning Egypt at all. Hitchens’ challenge is an argument from silence meaning his claim is based upon things that were not said. But, if these are true stories written my several different people, you can presume that there will be differences in each of them. Another challenge is that the New Testament was supposedly written around 50 years after these events happened. The human brain cannot remember every single thing that takes place every day, especially after 50 years. But if it’s a big event that impacted various people’s lives, including your own, it makes it much easier to remember. Many events that happened to take place in the New Testament are ones that are easily remembered several years later. More recently, Hitchens creates a new challenge claiming there’s simply not enough evidence to support the claim that there was ever existed. He thinks that if He ever did exist there would be more documentation than the New Testament. Hitchens also thinks that a number of the
Claim
Transcendence is the belief that a divine realm exists outside of the universe. It is the belief that there is one God, you have a soul, and after death you go to Heaven or Hell. Christianity is one of the religions that was formed out of this belief. Christianity claims that Jesus, God the Son, came to earth to reveal the Father to us and then save us from our sins by dying on the cross about 2,000 years ago. Salvation, which is basically the deliverance from our sins, involves transformation. This transformation is from an average human being to becoming a son or daughter in Christ. We refer to Jesus as God the Son instead of Son the God because it emphasizes his divinity. By being the perfect son, He shows the Father perfectly. …show more content…
This argument is mainly saying that there should be a concept of a perfect being and that there must be a perfect standard. Anselm says that if you have the concept that God exists, that means he must exist. Otherwise you would be thinking greater than reality, which we cannot do. Because we think in terms of worst/worse/good/better/best leads us to think that a perfect standard does exist. If there is a perfect standard, which means there has to be someone who meets it, or else there would be no perfect standard at all. With all this said, that perfect being is God. The second argument is the cosmological argument. This argument was formatted by Thomas Aquinas and based off Aristotle, a fourth century BC Greek Philosopher. The cosmological argument was mainly based on the concept of cause and effect. This argument is centered on the fact that things can’t just appear out of nowhere. There is a cause for everything. Our universe isn’t eternal because it had to be created at one point I time, meaning that it hasn’t always existed. With all this being said, there had to be a first …show more content…
Christopher Hutchins tries to minimize C.S. Lewis by saying that he openly trusted the documents (the New Testament). He goes onto explain that the birth narratives in Matthew and Luke contradict each other. In Matthew, is says Jesus was born in Bethlehem, taken to Egypt, and then to Nazareth. In Luke, is says Jesus was born in Bethlehem and then later taken to Nazareth without mentioning Egypt at all. Hitchens’ challenge is an argument from silence meaning his claim is based upon things that were not said. But, if these are true stories written my several different people, you can presume that there will be differences in each of them. Another challenge is that the New Testament was supposedly written around 50 years after these events happened. The human brain cannot remember every single thing that takes place every day, especially after 50 years. But if it’s a big event that impacted various people’s lives, including your own, it makes it much easier to remember. Many events that happened to take place in the New Testament are ones that are easily remembered several years later. More recently, Hitchens creates a new challenge claiming there’s simply not enough evidence to support the claim that there was ever existed. He thinks that if He ever did exist there would be more documentation than the New Testament. Hitchens also thinks that a number of the