Personal god

There are two opposing sides to the argument of faith and the existence of God, evidentialism and non-evidentialism. Evidentialism is believing that it immoral to either form a new belief without sufficient evidence, or to sustain an existing belief by deliberately ignoring doubts and avoiding honest investigation. Non-evidentialism allows for more personal evidence to justify one’s belief. When contrasting the two views my personally beliefs align more with non-evidentialism. British…

The Shack presents an immensely personal perspective of the Christian faith. Organized religion can sometimes put a dampener on a person’s personal relationship with God. The Shack represents how our own views shape our religious experience the most; not the Church’s cut and paste version. An example of Mack’s own personal views are the forms the holy trinity takes as God as an African American woman, the Holy Spirit as an Asian woman, and Jesus as a Hebrew man (Young 84). Even to some…

Within the relationships we possess, there will always be sin that infiltrates them. We allow our selfish desires to control our thoughts and actions. As a result, some of the most valuable relationships will fall to ruin. However, when we prioritize God in our relationships, we aren’t as naïve to give into the temptation of sin. As stated in Relationships: A Mess Worth Making, the authors say, “...our biggest problem is inside us and we can’t fix it on our own.” (Lane/Tripp, p. 33). Sin tempts…

This moral theory has remained influential in the public imagination even though many philosophers no longer taken it seriously. According to Aquinas, if God made nature and reason discloses how nature works, then reason reveals to us that this is the correct way because God made it like that. Hence, Aquinas’ Natural Law expresses fundamentally that natural equals good, and unnatural equals bad. For example, nowadays, most people take aspirin to alleviate the pain…

be applied through personal experience of how God has been faithful in their life or others’ life. In the article, “The Lost Legacy of Anselm's Argument: Re-Thinking the Purpose of Proofs for the Existence of God” explains about how many philosophers of religion, have confirm the existence of God and also have not confirmed the existence of God. Therefore, it is stated “…some have argued that this is true in the case of ontological ora priori proofs, which establish that God…

The existence of God has been a question that has plagued mankind since the beginning of time and it is a question that has divided numerous philosophers throughout history. In this essay, I will critically evaluate Richard Swinburne’s cosmological argument which can be found in this book is there a god? Richard Swinburne states that his book is trying “To reach a conclusion about whether, on balance the arguments indicate that there is a God or that there is not." Richard Swinburne attempts to…

full potential that God has for him. Hick starts off with what Irenaeus says, which is humans are still trying to become like God because we lack personal heavenly qualities to be like Him. Then he goes on to mention Johannine, who says as human we are supposed to reach a higher level of holiness, and according Irenaeus humans have failed to reach this higher level. Hicks says there must be an evolution process for us to reach this higher level that cannot be directly created. God could create…

Genesis 1-11 inform our Christian worldview? The first eleven chapters of Genesis begin with the Creation account, from then we go to the Garden of Eden and the first sin, which leads to the fall of man. From there we go from Adam to Noah, the wrath of God over the wickedness of man, the flood, which leads to the covenant of the rainbow, the Tower of Babel and the genealogy of Abram’s family. These first chapters are the basis of the rest of the Christian worldview, in other words,…

pedagogies meant to direct the catechist in his or her ministry, though it is important that these methods be in conformity to the Divine Pedagogy. Groome’s Shared Christian Praxis and Cavalletti’s Catechesis of the Good Shepherd draw upon the Pedagogy of God through the role of the catechist and through the means by which one obtains knowledge. According to Groome’s pedagogy, the role of the catechist is exceedingly active and directive; shared Christian Praxis requires a significant amount of…

tenancy – was granted to the male (…)”. Throughout the book, Margery mainly emphasizes on her personal experience with…