Pre-existence

argues that reason “is incapable of giving faith, or hope, or love; and, consequently, of producing either real virtue, or substantial happiness”. These are gifts from God that can only be given with or without evidence of His existence. Even without reason for the existence of God, the sacred and the transcendent is still maintained and does not need to be reasoned in order to produce hope, faith and love for…

and even in conflict with evidence and reason. Fideism maintains that faith is independent of reason and that faith is superior when it comes to arriving at particular truths. Danish philosopher and theologian, Søren Kierkegaard, claims that the existence of God cannot be indubitably known and that the decision to accept faith cannot be, nor needs to be, founded on logical justification.…

Little, black dots on a page. Essentially, that is all written music is. It’s really all that any form of writing is. A meaningless code in motion will stay in motion, utterly meaningless until an educated eye interprets its significance. Yet, once this meaning is deciphered and most importantly, communicated, those formerly insignificant dots of ink – whether they be notes, poetry, prose, or paint – create a world of artistic possibilities. If the position of the artist is solely a channel, a…

The existence of God has been an argument that society has been fighting for years, along with other debates within them. If you believe that God exists, then the argument would be whether or not Jesus Christ is his one true born son. The cosmological argument only deals with the fact that the universe is created by a great designer. Some say that this argument is illogical because one can simply not know whether or not that there is an intelligent creator, and the universe could create itself…

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…

charitable construal, the conclusion "Therefore, God almost certainly does not exist" does not follow from these six steps, even if we concede that each of them is true and justified. Eight Reasons in Support of God’s Existence (Prof. William Lane Craig, 2013) Craig believes that God’s existence best explains a wide range of the data of human experience. Let me briefly mention eight such cases. (I) God is the best explanation why anything at all…

all powerful even though he allows chaotic things to happen not only to ones who deserve it but also to the people that are good. Which lead to the discussion whether God is evil or good and in extreme circumstances leads to speculation about Gods existence. Although Harold s. Kushner provided many supporting details while reading the book I still have the same view points on God that I did before; God is good, all powering, and he does what is best for his followers and others however I…

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 nature depend on each other. For example, most living organisms depend on oxygen to survive. An independent variable directly influences a dependent variable. Therefore, there has…

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…

Is there transcendentalism today in our world? Yes, there is tons and tons of transcendentalism today in our society. They are found mostly everywhere and we do not notice it. They can be found anywhere in general like television, music, art speeches and literature. For my project, I found a song that relates to transcendentalism. This song is very well known and it is called “Imagine” by John Lennon. The song is about obtaining peace and fighting for what you believe in. This song shows many…