Does God Exist Essay

When studying Philosophy of Religion, one may recognize there are many aspects this discipline addresses. One of the features discussed is the existence of God. Over the years, circles have expressed their thoughts concerning this topic because it is of great value to humanity. In 1968, H.J. McCloskey decided to express his views on this topic in his article, On Being an Atheist. Within the article, McCloskey presented his atheistic views and why they are right along with theistic views and why…

Through the Argument of Possibility and Necessity, the existence of God is proven. Possibility is having the tendency to stop existing or being contingent. Necessity is a form from itself, which could not possibly have failed to exist. These two concepts and forms of being and the way they interact represent the existence of God. Thomas Aquinas, medieval theologian and philosopher, asserted and taught Five Ways to prove the existence of God. One argument of these five that I find to be…

evil with the existence of God. If God is all-powerful, all-knowing and all-good, it is vital to understand how and why that same God allows evil to exist and the reason why bad things happen to good people. This paper evaluates the problem of evil in religious studies and philosophical traditions and attempts to establish reasonable solutions. The Starting Point Any strong explanation of evil must necessarily comprise and start with similarly strong explanations of God and creation that…

ultimate creator god? There are people very passionately on both sides, with many different reasons why they believe what they do. Personally, I believe that no, we do not have enough evidence and valid reasons to support that claim. Although there are some decent arguments, such as the Cosmological, First Cause Argument, there is nothing strong enough to convince me of an ultimate creator god. I started out skeptical, because that is the best way to determine if something truly exists. And,…

because there is evil in the world, God therefore cannot be omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient. These characteristics are used to describe the essence of the God of Christianity, so according to the argument from evil, God does not exist. Because if He did exist as an all-powerful, loving being, He would not allow such evil to prevail. So, does the fact of evil make it irrational to believe in God? No, the fact of evil does not make it irrational to believe in God. Evil is real and is a…

In Proposition Twenty-Two of Part One, Spinoza states “whatever follows from some attribute of God, insofar as the attribute is modified by a modification that exists necessarily and as infinite through some attribute, must also exist both necessarily and as infinite” (Spinoza 154). As long as the attribute that the mode follows from is infinite, then that mode must also be infinite. This leads to the definition…

believes that we should live our lives like God exists because we have nothing to lose from it. If we believe in him and he does exist, we get to go to heaven, and if he does exist and we lived our lives like he doesn’t exist, we go to hell. Pascal thinks we have nothing to lose from believing in God but I think that is one of the things that he is wrong about. If we pretend to believe in God just in case he is real so we can go to heaven, wouldn’t God be able to tell if we were lying about it…

INTRODUCT ION The question of the existence of a good God and evil is by far the most important problem for philosophical, religious, and moral consideration. These two contradicting arguments have been postulated by many philosophers like Richard Dawkins, William Rowe…etc. Though the intrinsic presence of suffering is the most obvious feature that determines the character of the existence or non-existence of God, it is an empirical fact, and the truth or falsity of these facts can only be…

image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name” (Merton). What was Merton’s main point of this statement? I believe he was trying to emphasize that God does in fact exist, because without God, we would cease to exist because we are made in the likeness of God. People ask the question of “Does God Exist?” for a long time. To one individual, He may not exist due to…

which theists base their belief in God, of the inadequacy of these grounds and why Atheists believe that there is no God.” (p. 62) Throughout the article, McCloskey attempts to use these three proofs, the cosmological proof, the teleological proof, and the argument from design, to explain why theists are incorrect to believe in God. Although McCloskey has made a very strong case, he was not able to fully prove his points because many arguments or defeaters, exist against his proofs and for the…