Theology

1- The Procedure of doubting ones own beliefs to discover which beliefs is essentially true. Descartes who engages a basic approach, which aims to defeat doubt at its own ground. He supports doubting the basic route of thinking in addition to doubting the proof of the senses and traditional delusions. If any exact fact can pass this test, it is actually certain and can be measured a solid basis of knowledge. Doubt is faced in our everyday life through the doubt a person face if god really…

George Berkeley is famously known for his statement, “Esse est percipi” which means if we are able to perceive something then it certainly exists. Nothing outside our minds exists, meaning material substances are irreconcilable. Perceiving is the entity equated to mind, body and soul or simply our self. Ideas exist and are imprinted through the sense faculty. Ideas are actively perceived by this entity called the ‘Spirit’. The existence of things which we do not perceive is left within the mind…

Religious leaders can be described as an example of the optimal representation of virtuousness. But what does it mean and it take to be a religious leader? This paper will be an investigation/analysis of what it means/takes to be made into a religious leader, and how those attributes are directly connected to forms of observation and governance. It will be done by assessing the role of the Pope as the head of the Catholic Church. Within Catholicism, observation often correlates to God. Thus,…

Nathan Cha Professor Song Philosophical Perspectives 17 December 2015 The cosmological Argument In William Lane Craig’s, “The Kalam Cosmological Argument,” he argues that whatever begins to exists had a cause of its existence, and since the universe began to exist Craig claims that the universe had a cause for existing. Craig furthers his claim by stating that God is the cause for the universe existing. To object to this argument J.L. Mackie brings some questions to the table to unpack…

The Impact of Forgiveness & Reconciliation In Society today” THESIS: In society today, the world loves to take aspects of the faith and take God out of them. Hence, supporting the idea that “social repentance also social reconciliation” is worldly, not religious, therefore not needed. However, these societal needs expressed in the Bible called on whole nations to stop doing evil. Not to mention, the apostles practiced reconciliation, though fitfully, with lots of starts and stops, in…

According to Nash, “There seems to be many evils in the world that can be eliminated only by producing situations containing more evil or costing us some greater good…Suppose that many evils result from human free will or from the fact that our universe operates under natural laws or from the fact that humans exist in a setting that fosters soul-making.” (Nash, 186.) Nash explores the possibilities of free will, human beings are more inclined to natural law in which produces more good will for…

Many believe that God was self-created or self-causing which is baffling because “God as cause” would have to precede “God as effect”. If we continue to go off the claim that no one created God, concluding that God is eternal, then why not make the notion simpler in the fact that the universe is also eternal? For an example, matter can change into energy just as so energy can change into matter, but the sum total of matter equals energy, remains constant. Same with the universe, it has no outer…

According to St. Thomas Aquinas the cosmological argument and teleological argument as stated in the “Kalam” basically states “that everything that begins to exist has a cause of existence, the universe began to exist, therefore, the universe has a cause of its existence.” This basically means that that everything happens for a reason. In my opinion I completely agree with this logic. With the way that the world is today the must be some type of Ultimate Reality (God) that has plans for us as…

Human Existence Introduction Evil and good in relation to God’s gift of free will are the main themes investigated in the movie Megamind. The central character, Megamind, who was primarily the villain, struggles with discovering what his true destiny was, and for a long period of time, causes a great extent of destruction in Metro City. Although, he soon determines that his role can be much more than committing villainy, and subsequently, his evil impulses subside and employs his free will to…

There has been one philosophical question that has plagued religious thinkers for all of human history. Is there a God? Philosophers have argued for centuries about the existence of God and have yet to provide a convincing conclusion. By no means will I attempt to answer this question, but rather explore the complexities of their arguments. I have chosen to analyze the arguments of Thomas Aquinas, Blaise Pascal and Robert Adams respectively. I attempt to discover what these arguments were aiming…