Natural theology

“Crooked smile” j. cole is a song that most people can relate to, as a whole. Globally most people are changing the way they look or either do not like how they look, causing themselves to love themselves less. This song explains to those that they are perfect the way they are without changes. He says raps in the song that “We ain't picture perfect but we worth the picture still” (line 10) Cole wants the listener to know that the way a person is as perfect as they come. People don’t have to…

It is nearly impossible for pastors to be familiar with every culture that exists out there, in the world. People will come from different countries, states or even counties that may have a radically different culture than the pastor. Andy Crouch, in his book Culture Making, argues that: Culture is more than an ideology, trends, fads, fashion, sense of ethnic identity, the collections of practices, beliefs and stories that carve out a sense of distinctiveness and pride or failure and shame. It’s…

After watching both videos and based on my own experience I would infer that Al Sharpton has a stronger case regarding morality. Although Hitchens had very good arguments about how we don’t really need God to be moral in this world, Al Sharpton pointed out that if it really was up to us to decide what is moral and immoral we would definitely change it every four years. Al Sharpton pointed out that if we need someone that’s above us to be in charge of what morality means. I can see where he’s…

Kushner wrote a book on his view of the theodicy by using the book of job, personal experience, and other stories. Kushner begins his book with the question “Why do bad things happen to good people?” For many years this question have been circulating trying to find an answer for it just seems impossible. Kushner also wrote about people believing that God is all good and all powerful even though he allows chaotic things to happen not only to ones who deserve it but also to the people that are…

loving creator. John Hick defined evil as “physical pain, mental distress, and moral wickedness. The consequences of evil is always suffering”. Evil can be distinguished into two categories, moral evil and natural evil. Moral evil is when humans freely choose to do something wrong and natural evil is where humans experience events which have bad or evil consequences. Judeo-Christian believers recognise God for his omnibenevolence, omnipotence, omniscience and his role as source of human ethics…

There is a “God”. Call it what you may, but there is a higher being upon us all. Cosmological arguments state that there must be an uncaused cause of the universe. Everything has a beginning and almost everything contains a specific purpose. In order for anything to obtain purpose, there had to have been someone or something to distribute those purposes. That something had to have been in high power due to the fact that it was in existence before those purposes were distributed. All parts of…

The ontological argument is different than the cosmological or teleological arguments as it relies on A Priori knowledge rather than A Posteriori. A Priori knowledge is knowledge that you can know prior to any experience; it is known through reason alone. This essay will explore how reliable the ontological argument is. The ontological argument is an argument for the existence of god by St Anselm (1033-1109). Anselm defined god as “that than which nothing greater can be conceived.” His argument…

The book, Dynamics of Faith, written by Paul Tillich provides his own ideas of what faith is not in three ways. Tillich explains the three distortions of the meaning of faith as the “Intellectualistic,” the “Voluntaristic,” and the “Emotionalistic”. Paul Tillich begins the second chapter by stating that, “Our positive description of what faith implies the rejection of interpretations that dangerously distort the meaning of faith” (Tillich, 35). The intellectual understanding of faith is not…

How successful is the Ontological Argument in Proving the Existence of God? For centuries, the existence of God has been questioned and argued by many different philosophers. One of the “big three” arguments is the Ontological Argument, an argument that could be said to be valid, as it has a good structure, but the soundness is questionable. The argument was founded by St Anselm (1033-1109) on the basis of two things: firstly, that God is “that than which nothing greater can be conceived” ,…

people are suffering when there is an omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient God. So johnson is asking why did Hitler not die earlier, why do disasters, and why do the innocent suffer. Why do there have to be these big deal sufferings like wars and natural disasters? Why can't I just learn pain through having a toothache? Johnson took the stance that God is just a bystander with all power to end the pain but evilly didn't. However, the "lack of action" on God's part doesn't mean he's not good.…