Theism

In this week’s assignment, I choose to the religion Deism. Deism is described as a religion that is similar to Theism, which only believes in one God, however followers of Deism also believes that there is one God, but Deism believes that God made the world and created all that exists as well as the laws of the world and that is it (Britannica, 2017). Followers of this religion believe that God has removed himself from any involvement with the world or anything that has to do with nature as well…

After reading chapter VI to chapter XII of Child’s story of the Bible, I found some sentences strange but interesting. For example, in chapter VI, Joseph was robbed and cast into a pit by his brothers, then without being known by any other brothers of Joseph, Judah went to save Joseph, but he found nobody there. He was so sad that he cried out “The child is not”. He might mean that his brother was not there any longer, while in our modern English, we may think it refers to that Joseph is dead.…

Compatibilism is suited best for explaining free will as it acknowledges man as a free moral agent while being restrained by the doctrine of total depravity; Libertarianism takes upon itself to rely on concepts that tend to juxtapose one another, such as Open Theism, in order to rationalize free will. Compatibilism, as mentioned previously, is the view that causal determinism is true, but mankind still acts freely, being morally responsible agents…

In H.J McCloskey’s article, he made clear to his readers that the major dispute to theism is the presences of evil in the world. This essay will provide a response to many of the arguments McCloskey made and hopefully offer some clarifications and point out some issues with other objections to the topics of evolution, indisputable, issues of morality, and the subject matter that questions the existence of God, which he also has expressed in his article (McCloskey). The arguments were meant to be…

THE HIDDENNESS OF GOD Divine hiddenness, in the modern sense, does not refer to disquiet, disappointment and even despair that believers sometimes feel when God seems silent during suffering or trying seasons of life, rather it refers to a philosophical argument that asserts the unbelief of people who are both capable of believing and non-resistant to God proves that a loving God does not exist. Michael Rea puts it this way, “Our concept of God is the concept of a perfectly rational, perfectly…

What is right and wrong? Theism would contend that “ethics is transcendent and is based on the character of God as good (holy and loving).” If God is truly prime reality, then he would mandate a moral universe if in fact, morality is an aspect of the nature of God. Simply because people differ in their moral judgments does not negate the fact that some sort of morality from someone’s point of view is either being obeyed or disobeyed. Theism would teach that since God has created a…

Yet, the Chinese were not receptive to this type of European logic. Following, Liu criticizes both Mungello and Gernet’s views as problematic. He claims that comparing European theism with Chinese Confucianism shouldn’t have worked in Ricci’s favor, and only prevailed due to the social and political atmosphere of the Wanil era, where Christianity mostly appealed to the Confucians as an opponent of Buddhism. For instance Ricci’s…

God’s ongoing action, and interaction within and throughout human history, as well as God’s actions in the personal lives of individual believers, salvific, or otherwise), as well as insights into divine inspiration, revelation, transcendence and immanence, and even Tripartitism. This same dualism also resolves a host of hitherto insurmountable theological and scientific conundrums that have long plagued Judeo-Christianity. Such an unusually high degree of interdisciplinary explanatory power…

Evil have been around for as long as anyone can remember. Evil is the cause of unforeseen natural occurrences that happens in the world such as: earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and other natural disasters. Evil has been named for the cause of death, sickness and suffering. Many philosophers have asked how could an all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-loving God allow evil and suffering in the world. Because of humanity’s limited knowledge, humans cannot simply understand God or his plans…

are three points that Craig makes in his article. One is there is no value to one’s life without God. Another is there is no purpose without God and finally life has no importance without God. McCloskey claims that atheism is more comforting than theism is far from what I believe. Similar to Craig, I believe that life without God has no value and to me that is not a comforting way to live life, knowing that once I am dead there is nothing to look forward…