Christian theology

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…

Kalam’s Cosmological argument dates back to medieval Muslim philosophers. Kalam’s argument is an argument for the existence of the universe to the existence of God. William Kane Craig is promoting modern day versions, which attempt to overcome the problems of earlier versions. The differences and similarities between Kalam’s Cosmological Argument, Aquinas's and Paley's design arguments can be examined to determine that it has failed to overcome the difficulties present in Paley’s and Aquinas…

Introduction In Exodus 34, when YHWH reveals His name to Moses, He stresses that while He is “merciful and gracious,” He also, “Will by no means clear the guilty” (Ex. 34: 6-7, ESV). The mercy of God and the justice of God are both vital to God’s essence. If God loves righteousness and hates wickedness (Ps. 45:7), how, can God justify wicked humans? What does “justify” mean? What must happen for justification to occur? What do humans do to receive justification? What are the benefits of…

1.How do the statements of Jesus in texts such as Matthew 5:17-20, 6:14-15, and 7:1-2 align with the Christian doctrine of salvation by grace alone through faith in Christ? There are multiple ways the texts from the sermon on the mount align with Christian doctrine and salvation through Christ. Jesus’ messages from the sermon on the mount model the need of grace to be saved. According to Jesus in one of the passages listed above, “unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the…

being. In other words, union with Christ defines the existence of Christians who have faith in Christ’s saving work which is the double graces, justification and sanctification. However, the mediate work of Christ seems to stop or at least to change when the apostle says: “then comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, after he has destroyed every ruler and…

The Bible is the word of God, but the Bible can only nourish us “if it is understood and personally appropriated as God’s own word” in the flesh (Preface 1). Jesus Christ, the word of God incarnate came down to earth so that we not only could receive salvation, but so that all people can have a relationship with Him. This straightforward approach starts the book off on the right foot, and I enjoy how direct he is in this foreword. While this short introduction is good, it certainly is not a…

The Christian worldview offers an informing, structuring, and illuminating system for completing and comprehending every sort of knowledge. The goals that I have set for myself will make me become a better person and will give me more confidence, and it will help…

relationship with Him. In order to maintain relationship with Him, Christians exercise spiritual discipline. These disciplines, inward, outward, and corporate, reflect our desire to commune with God and demonstrate our need for Him as our savior. In his book Celebration of Discipline, Richard Foster (1998) states that “the purpose of the Disciplines is liberation from . . . fear” (p. 2). Thus, the disciplines outlined for Christian life were created in order to improve our internal, spiritual…

Some people believe that evil is a necessary force in the world, that without it us as humans would not be able to recognize and appreciate the good that comes from the people around us. It is a common belief among theists that God, as our creator, allowed a finite amount of necessary evil in our world so that we can understand the concept of what “good” is. Solely based on the definition of God, that He is omnipotent and omnibenevolent, there should be no Evil that exists is the world. If He…

The discussion on whether the idea of God is innate has been held among many philosophers. There are two philosophers, Rene Descartes and John Locke, who both have come up detailed explanation and understanding of the idea of God. Descartes believes that the idea of God is innate and inborn with a human mind. Yet Locke argues that the idea of God is not innate. Two philosophers’ opinions reach a disagreement. Therefore, in this essay, I will be looking into the process of two philosopher’s…