Does God Exist Essay

2015 Do God and Evil Coincide? The issue with the presence of evil and the existence of God is most commonly the question of “if God is all powerful and all good, why does evil exist?” or “if evil exists then would God not be all-powerful or all-good?” If God was an all-powerful being then He would be able to prevent evil things – war, disabilities, natural disasters, etc. – from happening, but since they seem to occur every day, He must not be all-powerful, and therefore must not exist since…

First, it assumes that God exists. Second, it further understands God’s existence as necessary and perfect. Finally, if God exists and is perfect, then God is the ultimate standard for humans. William P. Alston, former professor of philosophy at Syracuse University even writes in his textbook, Philosophy of Religion: A Reader and Guide, that “God, being the source of our being and governor of the universe as well as the standard of value” (Alston 294). If God exists, then there are no other…

powerful entity does exist. I focused on the argument Blackburn posed on Chapter 5, “God”. Blackburn is wrong to claim that the existence of evil suggests an entity who is all-good, all-knowing, and all-powerful does not exist. Simon Blackburn discusses that there is no actual truth to religion since there is no concrete proof that there is even a God. Blackburn brings up the fact that it is not possible for an all good, all knowing, and all powerful to exist. He argues that God, if he does in…

of evil and his question; “if He is both willing and able (to take away all evils), which alone is suitable to God, from what source then are evils? Or why does He not remove them?” , summarises concisely the issue which has been at the forefront of philosophical argument for thousands of years. To explore this question I will first consider what God is. In this essay I will refer to God in the orthodox monotheistic sense of the word as an omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent being.…

Are Mathematics and Christianity related at all? For some, mathematics is simply rules, laws, and axioms that are used to make sense of problems. For others mathematics is the language God used to create universe in its entirety. Either way, certain questions continue to puzzle mathematicians such as: are mathematics invented by human minds to unlock the many mysteries of the world, or are these mathematical truths embedded in God’s nature and henceforth used in the creation of the world?…

ontological argument aims to prove the existence of God from a priori premises including the definition of God: a being than which no greater being can be conceived. A priori proposition is knowledge that is gained through deduction. According to the definition, God is known to be omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent. The argument above is an example of an ontological argument (Lecture). The argument above states that: the definition of God is a being that we, as humans, cannot…

christian around the age of 9, later evolves into a well known journalist, historian, evolutionary psychologist and author credited with tackling controversial studies of ancient religion and the evolving existence of God throughout time. As a famous best selling author of The Evolution of God, Non Zero: The Logic of Human Destiny, editor for The Sciences, The Atlantic, co-founder and editor of Meaning of Life.tv, Bloggingheads.tv, professor at Princeton University, and frequently published…

There has been one philosophical question that has plagued religious thinkers for all of human history. Is there a God? Philosophers have argued for centuries about the existence of God and have yet to provide a convincing conclusion. By no means will I attempt to answer this question, but rather explore the complexities of their arguments. I have chosen to analyze the arguments of Thomas Aquinas, Blaise Pascal and Robert Adams respectively. I attempt to discover what these arguments were aiming…

differ in the fact that theist believe in an omnibenevolent (all-good), omnipotent (all-powerful), and omniscient (all-knowing) God. To Atheist, this poses a contradiction because this is a set of beliefs that can’t be all true all the time,…

If God exists, he must be omniscient (all-knowing), omnipotent (all-powerful), and omnibenevolent (all good). However, there is evil in this world. Evil is defined by suffering. Then comes the question of whether God exists and if he does, then why is there still evil and suffering in the world? If God were truly omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent, then our world would not contain evil whatsoever. There is a whole range of people who experience suffering but it is best to narrow it down…