key players were Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543), Johannes Kepler (15711630), and Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Although it may seem ironic now, each of these men believed in the Christian God. They viewed science as studying the handiwork of an almighty Creator and discerning His natural laws. Galileo considered God to have written two “books”: the Bible and nature (Hummel, p. 106). Contrary to popular belief, the cause for the diversion between Christianity and science originated not with the Church
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professor, believed that “morality can be maintained without religion.” He also stated that it must be maintained without religion because times have changed. He said that if religion is not separated from state it could have severe damage, such as the Crusades and the Holocaust. Dershowitz believes that there is a difference between morality and religion. When people are moral without religion, they are being virtuous on their own, not because they are afraid of God. He stated that religion should
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The problem of evil and suffering is that it challenges the existence of God. J.L Mackie argued that the existence of an omnipotent and omnibenevolent God was not compatible because of the existence of evil, this created the inconsistent triad. Mackie said that “if God is omnipotent and omnibenevolent how can there be evil and suffering in the world”. An all powerful God could stop evil, yet it exists. An all loving God would want to stop evil, yet it exists. Evil doesn’t exist as an entity on its
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Biblical/Christian Worldview Beliefs Our Christian belief is that there is one God who is the creator of all things. We also believe that the Bible is the inerrant Word of God. The Bible serves as a Christian’s worldview filter in answering questions of Origin, Identity, Purpose, Morality, and Destiny. Question of Origin We as Christians believe that God, three persons in one, is the creator of all things. Our God is eternal and everlasting (Psalms 90:2) King James Version and is the creator
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together and the ways in which they oppose one another, including the views of philosophers. According to Baruch Spinoza; “In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity”. This tells us why Spinoza and other hard determinists are called ‘hard’; their position is very strict. Hard determinists believe that all of our actions have prior causes
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the 1600s to the 1750s, thought that the only way God would reward them was to work hard in life now, and reap the rewards later. Humanists, who lived later from the 1750s to the 1850s, believed that they should take their happiness in this life, not the next. The Puritan idea trumps in today’s world as people work for their salvation, not their pleasure. Religious groups
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One well known philosophical dilemma, that causes much of humanity significant grief and frustration towards religious beliefs, is the problem of evil. John Hick explains in his essay, “The Problem of Evil”, that this ‘crisis’ so to speak is based on three characteristics that Christians claim God has. Christians believe that God has infinite knowledge, power and love. The question that is then raised is: Why is life on earth filled with vast amounts of suffering, pain and evil if God has never-ending
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many cultures believe the Gospel it is a type of false teaching made up by society to control people’s lives and actions. The believe Christians feel the need to believe there is someone greater then themselves that knows the purpose of life and destiny. They perceive that Jesus did not die on the cross for the remission of all sins. The bible states, “My people My people are destroyed from the lack of knowledge, because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will reject thee” (Hosea 4:6). God knows that
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which in contemporary society seems atrocious. A point to be aware of is the huge cultural difference between the bible and contemporary life. If we focus on the difference between the Old Testament and modern day life the cultural difference is one of the chief factors behind the difficulty of using the bible in ethics today. The bible is written in a culturally conditioned format. Language, racial attitudes and the different emphasis on aspects of life including holiness and purity, all count
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that we have a God given ability to reason through the use of our conscience. Benevolence is, according to Butler, the natural tendency of all human beings. In dramatic contrast to what Freud would say from a modern perspective, Butler would argue that we are all essentially good. This is the foundation for Butler’s argument that we have an innate sense of right and wrong from our god given conscience. Hence, since we say that we are all essentially good self-love comes as one of the many ways
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