Omnipotence

Left to Tell is the survival story of a Rwandan Tutsi, Immaculee Ilibagiza. Immaculee shares the power of faith in God as she describes the physical, mental, and specifically spiritual obstacles she faced in the 1993 Rwandan genocide. Rwanda consists of three tribes, the rare pygmy Twas, the minority Tutsis, and the majority Hutus. Hutu extremists turned on their Tutsi neighbors after the country’s president Habyarimana’s plane was shot down. After 100 days of slaughter, the death toll climbed…

The Greek philosopher, Socrates once wrote that “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Some, in today 's culture, may view this approach to life with indifference or perhaps animosity, but if nothing else, the words of Socrates do bear a premise worthy of consideration. Personally, I see the statement as somewhat extreme, as it is my opinion, accurate or not, that if this statement was true, a good deal of earth 's population should promptly vanish from existence. Everyone possesses a…

Underestimating God When something evil is happening it is normal for mankind to go through the five stages of grieving (Axelrod, 2006). Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and finally acceptance are all normal parts of processing a detrimental moment in life. No two individuals will go through the stages in the same time or even the same order yet rest assured that at some point we will all ask: why? As part of our quest to understand our relationship with the rest of mankind and God we…

Rebecca Berger Clement Philosophy 101 October, 15, 2015 Do God and Evil Coincide? The issue with the presence of evil and the existence of God is most commonly the question of “if God is all powerful and all good, why does evil exist?” or “if evil exists then would God not be all-powerful or all-good?” If God was an all-powerful being then He would be able to prevent evil things – war, disabilities, natural disasters, etc. – from happening, but since they seem to occur every day, He must not…

The Wilderness “For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land” (Deuteronomy 15:11). Biblical scripture itself does not omit poverty from its pages. Messages of the vulnerable and poor are interwoven to express how pervasive their plight has been and will be in society. Religion assumes a righteous and perfect image outlined by preachers and painted by its followers.…

Noah Porter paraphrases Eph 2:12 as "Hopeless because Godless." Agnostics may say that they do not deny the existence of God. Whether they claim unknowableness of God or that the existence of God is unknown, in either case, they do not know God and hence they are in a Godless situation, and the above phrase may describe agnostics' condition. Porter cleverly points out that the ignorance of God, which was regarded as a sin, "is now taught as a necessity of reason" and "the unknowableness of God…

Theodicy is a term which describes the problem with evil in the world and begs the question, if an all-knowing, all-powerful God exists, why does he allow evil to persist among his followers? This paper will seek to examine the relationship between good and evil and attempt to provide some explanation as to how evil continues to exist in a world in which God is a part of so many peoples’ lives. An argument will be made that evil thrives in modern society not because of any action that God fails…

Thomas Aquinas was an Italian philosopher and theologian of the Medieval period who raised valid arguments as to why evil exists. His first argument was that evil in fact does not exist but that there is only a “privation of the good” (Renick, pg 33). What this means is that God creates only good, therefore evil does not exist. Things only turn into bad when the good of an object of person has less of the good that it was initially given. Aquinas’s next arguments all go together; at least that…

The atheist's argument from evil to the conclusion that God does not exist can be outlined as follows: 1) If God exists, then there exists a being who is omniscient, omnipotent, and perfectly good. 2) If there existed a being who were omniscient, omnipotent, and perfectly good, then there would be no evil. 3) But there is evil. C) Therefore, God does not exist. The first premise follows directly from the theist's definition of God. "Omniscient" is taken to mean "one who knows all true…

The lens through which one views the world determines what he sees and how he responds. Lens composition is just as important as function; the same is true of the worldview we embrace. A Biblical worldview embodies the idea that its foundation effects its structure. Thus the purpose of this paper is to lay a foundation for the Biblical worldview, specifically expounding upon the Biblical belief that people are made in the image of God (Gen. 1:26-17) and relating this to the author’s vocation.…