Theology

Theism and Evil Atheists hold many claims about God and why he cannot exist because of evil present in the world. Some of their arguments for this include that God could prevent evil actions and preserve human freedom of will if he wanted, God could maintain a world without evil by continual divine intervention, the existence of evil proves it is logically impossible for a Perfect Being to exist, and the existence of evil proves we do not need God to find meaning and purpose in life. These can…

The second part of this argument focuses on the definition of God but is perceived so clearly and distinctly. The idea of God is of a supremely perfect being. A supremely perfect being has all perfections. Existence is a predicate of a perfect being, therefore, God must exist to avoid being self-contradictory. Therefore, God exists. Moreover, existence is a predicate of God, because as a most perfect being, God must possess existence, otherwise he would not be perfect. In Descartes mind, the…

Blaise Pascal’s wager about is an interest thought experiment because it essentially puts science and faith at two distinct entities that have defining roles. The whole notion of the wager is to prove the supremacy of God and that life is being played at his discretion with the notion that someday we may or may not meet him. When the existence of God is questioned, individuals try to use science and scientific reasoning to prove that belief. The nature of God is to be above the notion of…

After reading this parable I found an article called “The Parable of the Prodigal Son in Christianity and Buddhism” by Ernest Valea. I focused mostly on the Christianity aspect but it had some good major ideas about what exactly the parable is saying to us as Christians or in my case a Catholics. Valea tells us that the parable shows that God in Christianity has certain expectations about us as sinners. That we have the chance to return to our father no matter how far we stray away from the path…

The Divine Command Theory is a theory that proposed that an action’s status as morally good is equivalent to whether it is commanded by God. There are two objections to the Divine Command Theory. Even if all religions agree about how God regards some action, there is still the question of whether or not they correctly report what God commands. Although this point is offered as an objection to the Divine Command Theory, Sober does not think that it shows that the theory is false. He thinks that…

In section X, Part 1of his influential exploratory book “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, David Hume argues mankind doesn’t have any reason nor justification to believe in miracles, while also stating that miracles are not a basis of religion. Miracles and religion seem as if they have always been related, although what each religion considers to be miracles differs, therefore miracles cannot be a basis of religion. Due to the fact that miracles are merely experiences of which humans…

The problem of evil describes the argument that atheists and theists had about existence of God and evil. Atheists believes that God does not exist, but theists believes God does exist. There are two arguments of problem of evil: deductive argument (contradictory beliefs) and evidential argument. Contradictory beliefs are a set of beliefs is contradictory if and only if it is not possible for all of them to be true together. The six premises of contradictory beliefs are stated: 1. If God…

In his struggle to identify what holiness truly is, Euthyphro comes up with a multitude of definitions and explanations in order to please Socrates. The majority of his ideas are not well thought out indicating that he truly does not fully understand holiness. Though Socrates is able to refute all of Euthyphro’s definitions, there are several aspects of Euthyphro’s ideas that have some semblance of truth. From the list above, the definition that is arguably the best is number four. Found on page…

The traditional view of men being dependent on the church for guidance or the state deciding what was right was challenged with Kant's idea of freedom of thought and freedom of religious ideas. Kant defined enlightenment as man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Men could be fully autonomous and in charge of their own life without the church becoming involved as was required before the Enlightenment. Therefore, the traditional views of maturity violated the ideas of the Enlightenment…

In the Ontological argument, you're starting with the simple concept of God. Does God exist? St. Anselm's theory tries to come to a conclusion about this question. St. Anselm goes on to make two major points in his argument. One being that there is a difference between existence in reality and existence in understanding. Existence in reality is a basic notion, that things that physically exist do, and things that don’t, don’t. Existence in understanding means that anything can exist if we want…