Natural theology

Nathaniel Richardson PHIL 3121 Pascal Essay Pascal argues that you should believe in God because if you live a virtuous life and God is real you will have an infinite life in heaven. But if you believe in God and he is not real the only thing you will lose is the pleasures of sin. He believes sin is innate in us as we are born into sin and that is what we ultimately would rather do than live virtuously. On the other if you don’t believe and he is real you will have an infinite…

Upon being forcefully removed from a cave, a prisoner becomes enlightened by the idea that the fire he had seen in the cave was not the raw source of real light. Although he had been blinded with his first encounter with the sun's natural light, over time he would 'grow accustomed before he could see things in that upper world'. Gradually, he sought to learn more and be more knowledgeable about what was above the cave. As his understanding grew, so did his sympathy for those left behind…

Fate, Destiny, and You: Assessment Paper In class we watched the film The Adjustment Bureau and in this film there was many instances that challenged free will with determinism. It’s very hard to not think about fate and destiny. There are many ways to answer what exactly our destiny is. God knows our future and it already exists, and there is nothing we can do to change that. This is the theological challenge to freedom, it means that if an absolutely perfect god knows the future, presumably…

Satan is to test whether Job will remain faithful to Him despite his wealth. Not only does Job loses his faith and curses God, but he mysteriously loses his family, property and health without any cause or explanation. This proves that evil is a natural occurrence that cannot be solved and God allows suffering to occur in one’s life as a test to prove one’s…

Theological proof is the intelligent creator by apparent evidence design in the physical world and natural world. This argument starts out with the cosmos as well, but has a created purpose for how the universe come to occur by the suggestion of intelligent design. McCloskey tells of individual variances between argument form Design and theological argument…

evolutional process in time, from beginning to end, or the Big Bang Theory, only proves God’s mistakes as a creator in the views of some atheists (Smith, 2015). A non-believer would probably argue about just calling any universal change just a part of the natural evolutionary process other than the works of the Divine Creator (Smith,…

Christians believe in a Holy Trinity father, son, holy spirit. Clearly seen when Jesus stated I am the truth and the life. To point out two meanings of revelation. One is based on Gods will, the other theology. God, lets you have an experience with Him and having a personal relationship without delay. Believing in God help you experience His loving actions (Guthrie, Shirley Caperton 55). The author Shirley Guthrie speaks of how some say I know nothing…

19. What do we learn from this true story? Jonah was peacefully sleeping on a lower deck (Jonah 1:4-5). This forms another parallel to Christ’s life as Jesus also slept through a fierce storm that his disciples thought would sink their boat (Luke 8:22-25). Lessons: A. No one can outwit or manipulate God to one’s own human purposes. Jonah’s attempt to guarantee his own desired end for Nineveh by disobeying God resulted in the exact opposite outcome which Jonah anticipated. WHAT IS PLANNED FOR…

Many times, people have confused juvenile boot camps with therapeutic wilderness programs. In actuality, wilderness therapy takes the approach of developing a relationship with people based on respect and compassion. Nature serves as the teacher. A bootcamp uses physical and psychological aggression, whereas a wilderness therapy program creates circumstances that are more therapeutic. With this type of therapy, you have to endure the hardship of living in the outdoors, and you have to learn…

God, but atheist feels as if there is no proof. Since the free will defense is a very controversial topic, I believe that the free will defense is partially successful response to the problem of evil because it only justifies moral evil rather than natural evil. Atheist believe that God does not exist; that, in reality, it is only a mind thing for those who do believe in God. In other words, God only…