Gods and Generals

McCloskey postures against mystical faith in God is the thing that has been termed the issue of malevolence. McCloskey says that if a flawless, all-effective and entirely great God exists, then He would not have made a world in which unavoidable enduring and abhorrence exist. This contention can be an extremely troublesome one to handle from a mystical perspective, yet there are various conceivable clarifications for how a flawless and all-capable God can permit detestable on the planet. As a…

be solved by recognizing that God had been saving Gentiles on the same basis as Jews, namely through faith in Jesus as the crucified and resurrected Messiah.” The other point I see from this part is the necessity of church council to solve problems among…

cognitive science of religion may impact Christian theology in the future. The first, revelation, describes cognitive science of religion’s interpretation of general revelation, God revealing Himself in nature. Dr. Barret theorizes moral codes and mythologies may be part of God’s general revelation. I think it is a common view among Christians that God created an innate moral code within us. How powerful would it be if cognitive science of religion found experimental evidence for such a theory?…

presents about the problems of evil in the world, and how this evil is opposed to a divine benevolent God. We will also discuss the criticism that Swinburne produces on Hume’s arguments. In Dialogue Concerning Natural Religion by Hume touches on a couple factors of evil through the characters Demea, Philo, and Cleanthes. Demea states that evil is: “the miseries of life the unhappiness of man the general corruptions of our nature the unsatisfactory enjoyment of pleasures, riches, honours”…

Question 2 Although, Martin Luther began the (radical) Enlightenment with his god-centric theology and his ability to separate even the words of God from God himself, no one truly knew what the “Enlightenment” would result in. Luther said “Sometimes the Bible may go against the Spirit of Christ”, making the Bible an easy target for criticism. The idea that one could really go after the Bible and critique it became appealing for those who weren’t positive that religion was the only way of life.…

want to start off by saying that Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the more complicated philosophers that I ever had pleasure of studying. What I took away from Friedrich Nietzsche opinions on the death of God is that he was referring to the declining belief and respect for God or religion in general. Nietzsche felt that with the loss of religion the west would lose its distinctive cultural identity. Friedrich Nietzsche was not a big fan of Christianity to say the least, but he still understood…

from the question found in multiple works, such as, the Old English “Solomon and Saturn” question “Tell me what God is?” (304) Whereas, Junius manuscript question is stated as “Who possess pure intelligence except eternal God?” (304) These questions focus on the same idea but say it in very different ways. As well as seeing similarities in how these different works phrase the same general questions the answers to these questions are all generally similarities. Ericksen shows how “Christ and…

the same. Including how the two reacted and what they viewed the plague to be. Muslims saw the plague as a blessing from God and should accept what was going to happen to them. The Muslims believed a Muslim should not try to move away from the plague, they should not try to avoid it. The Muslims also believed that there was no contagion of the plague since it came from God. Some Muslims saw it as a punishment or a warning from…

Typically, when two stories conflict in detail, one tends to question the authenticity of either or both accounts; however, in stories such as the creation stories and in particular, Judaism, the differences only helps one better understand the duality of God or Yahweh. The creation stories are meant to charter fundamental values of society and the two stories differ in the sense that the first one depicts a more perfect, idealistic, world, whereas the second story is closer to life, as it is…

methodology in order to determine what in the world was certain and what should be rejected. His third meditation uses this methodology while being primarily concerned with proving the existence of God. This certainly is important for Descartes because if God exists, then we are able to trust our senses because God wouldn’t deceive us by distorting our perceptions. Additionally if things are as Descartes perceives them, then he must exist because he is the one perceiving the world. Descartes…