Existence of God

The existence of God is always important in the aspect of philosophy. St. Thomas Aquinas explains what he believes is the five reasons god exists. The five reasons he believes why God exist is the Argument from Motion, Efficient Causes, Possibility and Necessity, Gradation of Being, and Design. The definition of God means that which nothing greater can be meant. St. Aquinas is a known philosopher for his discussions of the relationship between faith and the reasons, including the five reasons…

interested in the theories and possibilities of God and how theists would reason him out. Throughout the entire dialogue, there are arguments from both Cleanthes and Philo where you can see some slight characteristics of Hume. However, I thoroughly see opinions of Hume in Philo more so than Cleanthes or Demea. I say this because the way Philo argues, the need for evidence and realism, is much more akin to a someone who may doubt the existence of God. An example of this is when Philo cites…

never questioned the existence of God because church was all I knew. My older sister and I spent countless hours with my grandmother at church helping in any way that we knew how and we never missed a service; in those services I heard testimonies of so many men and women who knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that no one other than God moved in a miraculous way in their lives and I just knew he had to be real. Not until I…

have always been a Christian, I have believed that there is a God for as long as I can remember. I believe that I am a child of God and that once I die I’m going to live with my Father in Heaven. God has made the world and everything around the world and everything in the world, at least, that’s what I believe. People do bad things in their lives, but I think that if you’ve got God in your life, you’re doing pretty well. I believe that God will always love me and if I do something wrong,…

Most arguments that God doesn't exist are since God is disproven by scientific findings. After watching the video, it becomes apparent that while science doesn't directly prove that God exists, it leaves holes that can only be explained by God. Father Baron, points out that the odds that the world we know was created are next to none without God; he says that it is just as likely that somebody will win a mega-million-dollar lottery 1000 times in a row while purchasing only one ticket for each.…

This paper will examine William Lane Craig’s and John Hick’s assertion that the existence of suffering and the concept of a benevolent and omnipotent God are not mutually exclusive, but consistent phenomena. Christian theologians — in their attempt to constitute and defend arguments for the existence of a deity — assert that God, because of his depiction in Biblical literature, has unique characteristics and abilities. These characteristics include benevolence — “the quality of being…

so many different things about my thoughts on God. When I first started this paper, I did not know if anything would be able to change my opinion. When I started my paper, my goal was to find some proof that there was no such thing as God. Instead, I found many different sides to this complex argument. The Life of Pi tried to make a significant argument of why God did exists. Thomas Aquinas showed me different sides to many arguments about God. Finally, my conversation with Olivia helped…

that there is no way we can actually know whether or not it exists (without the help of God). Moreover, there needs to be some kind of proof that our ideas and sense-created images of the world actually depict what exists in reality, if we want to have any certainty of it. Descartes claims to have a clear and distinct idea of God. This God is “all-powerful, perfect and infinite” (cite). He suggests that God has endowed him with the ability to know the reality of the world by reflecting on his…

true secrets from God. As a philosopher, and a Christian theologian, “the Summa Theologica,” is “the most comprehensive and systematic works meant to question and investigate many topics” (Baird). To include, five ways to prove the existence of God, by asking and answering any objections to his arguments, for example the first argument he claims God exist, because force set everything in motion. As a Christian I do relate with this Idea, of observing many examples of Gods existence, and having…

lost due to erring thoughts, even though the eternal was not understood, then Pascal’s Wager would have seemed the logical option. If one stands up and states proof of God exists, perhaps this one should be heard. I was never a writer; more of a thinker. After several online discussions with atheist online regarding God and His existence, I created a mental compilation of my actual beliefs, my tenets, if you will. These beliefs are the occurrence of many years of living, seeking, and…