argument for the existence of God in Meditation V is identical to the causal argument in Meditation III. Descartes’ ontological argument declares that a greatest being (i.e. God) necessarily exists as existence pertains to God’s essence. Since Descartes attributes omnipotence and absolute freedom to God, a problem arises: God, as the creator of all possible and actual essences (including God’s own), could separate God’s essence from God’s existence. As a result, God would not be necessary, but only
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argue that faith doesn’t need logic in order to prove the existence of God, through believing in his existence he exists, alongside knowledge from revelation in the Bible. Kant argues that existence is not a predicate of God, it adds nothing to our knowledge of God, and so we cannot just assume that he exists. It is impossible to compare God to a perfect island, just because he appears to perfect does not mean we can assume he exists; applying logic to a being doesn’t bring it into existence. Others
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Evil goes something like, “If God is omniscient, omnipotent, or omni-benevolent, He would erase evil; however, evil exists, so God must not havethose qualities or exist Himself.”. I intend to argue that the argument above is invalid.For clarity, as well as restrictions to personal knowledge, I will approach this argument from a Judeo-Christian background. To start, I believe that the Problem of Evil can be broken up into sections: The existence of evil, the traits of God, and the ‘disconnect’. The existence
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Why is there evil in the world created by a God who is moral, all powerful and perfect? God is moral, all powerful and perfect. He is also which none greater can be conceived. Any attribute of God is overwhelmingly superior to anything we can fathom. So when we try to measure and configure god’s motives, we are really setting ourselves in a maze. One argument is that, due to mankind's limited knowledge, humans cannot expect to understand God or God's ultimate plan. When a parent takes
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mean the following statement: There exists an omnipotent, omniscient, and morally perfect person who created the Universe. I will use the word "God" as a title rather than as a proper name, and I will stipulate that necessary and sufficient conditions for bearing this title are that one be an omnipotent, omniscient, and morally perfect person who created the Universe. Given this (probably technical) use of the term "God," theism is the statement that God exists. Some philosophers believe that the
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Gods existence Believers: Science is based on the premise that everything comes from something. To think that something originated from absolutely nothing is unreasonable and illogical. It would be ridiculous to look around us at all the intricacies and complexities of nature and deny the existence of a higher power and to say that all these things happened
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The play, Richard the Second, by William Shakespeare, published in 1595, suggests an interpretation of the value and essence of kingship. According to Kantorowicz, kings have two bodies, the body political and the body natural, which allow him to exist on both a physical and a metaphysical level, and thus maintain a duality. In this essay I will argue that the king has, in fact, three bodies - which can resolve different paradoxes that derive from the duality of the two bodies. The characteristics
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world did not have to be; it came to be as a matter of divine choice. As a result, our world is contingent; it has no independent existence, but exists “moment to moment only in and through and unto God (Neh. 9:6; Ps. 104:30; Rom. 11:36; Heb. 1:3; Rev. 4:11).”1 In other words, the world and everything in it is entirely dependent on God for its being as God actively “works all things according to the counsel of his will” (Eph. 1:11 ESV). Hence, creato ex nihilo means our universe was freely created
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theists do not come to believe in God as a result of reflecting on the proofs” (McCloskey, H. J., 1968). The “proofs,” as McCloskey calls them, do not play as big of a role in the Christian belief system as one would think. “Proofs may confirm a doubting theist in his belief” (McCloskey, H. J., 1968) but is does not typically sway someone devout in their beliefs. The most commonly accepted “proofs” are cosmological, teleological, and argument from design. If a theists does not accept these “proof” as
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Can we be good without God? There is no doubt that some valuable moral insights have been spread by religion. Religion seems to be a good place to start thinking of morality, but we cannot rely on God to tell us what is right morally and what is wrong. We should recognize that morality is based on human needs and interests, and not on God’s commands because they cannot be regarded as imposing moral obligations unless we already possess a sense of right and wrong independent of his commands. The claim
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