Omnipotence

Descartes introduced metaphysical considerations: the immutability of the lawgiver God, whose action is always constant because otherwise would be imperfect, and imperfection is unthinkable in relation to divinity (Henry, 2004, p. 100). In other words, laws of nature are causal because they derive from God’s immutable character. This God, however, differed from the voluntarist God of Ockham’s tradition. In fact, when Descartes founded his laws of nature upon God’s immutability, guaranteed that…

Unlike Cordelia, Edgar seems unwilling to ask the gods to reverse his father’s fate, insinuating that he values justice over mercy. The difference in the way that these two characters alone approach the gods reiterates the notion that interpretations of the pagan gods’ natures are not rooted in scriptural evidence, but in the images of the believers themselves. Albany, like Edgar, also ppears to consider the gods “just.” “This shows you are above,” he exclaims, “You justicers, that these our…

Up until the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel’s faith grew even stronger as he suffered through the torture in concentration camps, but with the help of God he was able to surpass the great evil that existed. After being forced into trains and ghettos, Wiesel did not know what was going to happen to the Jewish community, and despite the fact that he was imprisoned because he is Jews, it actually saved him as he kept his faith true and strong with God. In the interview with Oprah Winfrey, he explains how…

Jane Addams, Mohandas Gandhi, are all good people but Martin Luther King Junior, a humanitarian, an activist, and the leader of the African-American Civil Rights Movement left a legacy as he helped shape the world and freed people of that time of the thought of African-American people being slaves or them being segregated from the others. Martin Luther King Junior made a description of 6 principles in his book Stride Toward Freedom these principles retaining to the topic of nonviolence and…

The Problem with the Problem of Evil There are several arguments today that reason the impossible existence of God-or a “good” God for that matter. One in particular, “the problem of evil”, greatly supports such claims. It rationalizes that God would never allow evil to flourish based on three specific attributes of Him being omnipotent, omniscient, and just. Essentially, the problem of evil argues that there should be no evil if God is aware of it, has the capability to end it,…

The Problem with the Problem of Evil I am arguing that the Logical Problem of Evil (LPE) is not a successful argument to reject the existence of god. This is because the LPE has an inaccurate explanation for the definition of good. I will show that with the correct definition of “good,” an all good and all powerful god can logically exist simultaneously with evil. I will further show that, even if we accept this inaccurate definition of good, this argument will still not constitute the immediate…

Augustin is the father of the Christian church in North Africa. He was strongly influenced by Platonism. Augustin has developed many accounts of the Christian virtues of faith, hope, and love. Augustin’s Enchridion is about how evil cannot exist without good. Although good can exist without evil. We value the good more than the bad. God, the creator of all things, created everything to be good. Which means even if something is evil or bad there are still good. The only reason why something…

The argument argues deductively against the existence of God based on a theist’s explanation of the existence of evil and the characteristics of God. Personally, I think this argument is weak. First, God, the creator of the universe, is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent, which is all-PKG based on the common western culture point of view. Based on the characters of god, the existence of evil is contradict to the existence of god since the god is defined as all-PKG. Evil is being…

Since the very dawn of time, the problem of evil has had a tremendous impact in our society. Until this day, the problem of evil has been one of the most conceivable objections to the existence of God. According to the problem of evil, the existence of an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent God would be logically incompatible with the existence of evil. However, as proven by theodicies such as that of free will, God is not the creator of evil. God gifted humans with the ability to choose…

The atheist-theist argument has been an age-long debate. Though it is debated, it does not mean that it is, by any means, a matter of a guess. A theist can have full confidence that God is real, as well as reasonable evidence to reach that conclusion in lieu of the many atheist arguments. In Have Atheists Proved There Is No God by Thomas B. Warren, the reader is introduced to an atheist argument that has been widely used for numerous years and it’s logical implications. In addition to the…