Act of God

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…

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,…

mouthpiece of God . Prophets prepared the standards of moral conduct on the basis of their observations .The verses of Koran were revealed after observing every particular situation . Prophets were the ideal men .Buddha was the giver of rules of moral conduct and the buddhist follow the examples found in the life of buddha .The will of God is best known to us from the holy books written by buddha and other prophets . God is unknowable and it is hard to believe that prophets had a talk…

the relation of God to the ultimate perfection of man. Maimonides declares the understanding of God to be the most important task of man, because only through this understanding can an individual become nearer to God, and thus, perfection (Atlas 60). The perfection of man, he argues, is a direct response to a man’s understanding of God and how the man uses that understanding in an aim to imitate God’s actions. In order for man to achieve perfection, man first must comprehend God. Then, through…

Atheists say that a God who is all-powerful, all-knowing and perfectly good shouldn’t allow evil in the world. Why should there be evil is created all that we know? After God flooded the world and this is where we learn of the story of Noah and Ark, God said that He wouldn’t interfere with the affairs of humans because that is why He flooded the earth on the first place. Evil was gaining too much of a foothold in the hearts of humans. God loves us and because it hurt Him so much to have killed…

1. That God could prevent evil actions and preserve human freedom of will Oftentimes, doubters will assert that God could have kept an insidiousness and safeguard flexibility of will; on the other hand, it is essential that if the recent is to exist then the previous can't. Flexibility of will involves the capacity to act as per one's sentiments and decisions with no outside obstruction. Any confinement set on these two fundamentally prompts lost individual opportunity as an outside power…

Theism and Evil Atheists hold many claims about God and why he cannot exist because of evil present in the world. Some of their arguments for this include that God could prevent evil actions and preserve human freedom of will if he wanted, God could maintain a world without evil by continual divine intervention, the existence of evil proves it is logically impossible for a Perfect Being to exist, and the existence of evil proves we do not need God to find meaning and purpose in life. These can…

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.…

and shape our culture to act according to God’s will. However, culture and theology have conflicted with each other, creating confusion on what place theology holds in our culture, and vice versa. What, if anything, do culture and theology contribute to one another? If humanity fails to address this crucial question, we are bound to repeat the same mistakes that have been committed for thousands of years. The purpose of our culture is to give people complete freedom to act in accordance with…

monotheism proclaims God to be the one true God among many false deities. On this level “the true, authentic God, teaches the Old Testament, is always just the unique, he who is unique”. Hence, the plurality of false deities stands opposed to the one true God. On the other hand, if we understand philosophically the notion of God, we cannot but conclude that all representations of God are manifestations of the same reality. This, follows because the concept of the “capital ‘G’” God includes his…