Does God Exist Essay

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    Journal 2 God can never be rendered as the cause of evil, as “one who does not love does not know God, for God is love” (1 John 4:8). Humans are the cause of all evil. Bishop Barron states, since God is straight, pure love, “God cannot directly will something wicked. The second thing is that God is described as being itself therefore God cannot ground or cause the non-being which is evil” (Fr. Robert Barron on God, Tsunamis, and the Problem of Evil). Evil exists in our world today…

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    Free Will Defense

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    The existence of God has always been a topic of discussion. Many believe that God exists and some do not. Most reasons why there is an argument of God's existence is because of the problem of evil. The people that believe in the existence of God are called theist and those who do not are called atheist. Both have a thought of the existence of God, but atheist feels as if there is no proof. Since the free will defense is a very controversial topic, I believe that the free will defense is…

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    have to live with. Why have a God when all of these evil exist in this world. Is there even a God, if all…

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    Classic Problem Of Evil

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    troubled by the many kinds of evils. If God is benevolent, He would not want people and other living things to suffer. If God is omniscient, He must know when they are suffering. If God is omnipotent, He must be able to prevent this suffering. Yet this evil suffering still exists. They come to the conclusion that: if God does not want to prevent suffering, then God seems to have evil intentions, this is certainly not consistent with the nature of a benevolent God. David Hume argued that…

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    somber plea for help or an expression of gratitude address to God. The belief in God and the power of prayer was and is always the answer to life’s difficulties. If a loved one needed a surgical procedure performed, a church congregation would pray to God so that he may touch the hands of the surgeon for a safe procedure. If there is a natural disaster somewhere in the world, pray so that God will provide food and shelter to the afflicted. God and religion provides hope for those who have none,…

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    states to believe in God through his Wager and Hume discusses his disbelief in miracles, both are sufficient and persuasive views. Blaise Pascal states in his Wager that, “God is, or is not” (Pascal p. 191). Which side is right? Reason cannot make you choose, let alone make you defend either of the choices. Pascal offers a prudential reason to believe in God called the Wager, even if it is unlikely. The general idea of the Wager is that a person cannot come to realize that God exists through…

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    Aquinas Argument Essay

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    Introduction The existence of an omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent God is coherent despite the subsistence of horrendous evil in the world. Two major points are argued for in this paper lead to this conclusion. Firstly, evil is deemed not to be a “thing”; for everything in the world is created by the omnibenevolent God and as a good being; God is not one to create evil things (Jackson, 2014). Critics argue that if God exists and if God is all-powerful, all-knowing and all-good; He would…

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    atheism”. He does not believe in God, and even thinks of existence as a more positive experience without the existence or idea of a God. He believes that God does not exist and a world without God is better off in the long run. Jillette has many arguments opposing the existence of God. Mr. Jillette begins his argument opposing the existence of God by giving a definition of atheism, which he defines as “not believing in God,” or more specifically, the lack of positive belief that there exists…

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    McCloskey wrote an article titled “On Being an Atheist”. McCloskey used this article to explain his arguments against the existence of God. As an atheist, McCloskey believes that there are no proofs that God exists or that the universe was created. For the Christian this is the basis for everything they believe. While there is no way of proving definitively that a creator exists, Christians have a responsibility to be knowledgeable and ready to give a response to these arguments. Defending the…

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    Anselm’s Ontological Argument v. Pascal’s Wager In this paper, I will be describing Anselm’s Ontological Argument and Pascal’s Wager and then contrast the differences between the two. These two arguments help to determine the existence of God. There are three norms of belief: ordinary belief, religious belief, and faith seeking understanding. The norms of ordinary belief are based on sufficient evidence to prove it is true. Without proper evidence, this type of belief can be considered false…

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