Theism: There is a God Monotheism: One God Christian worldview is a monotheistic worldview but not all monotheistic worldviews are Christian worldviews. Three Monotheistic worldviews Judaism 4000 yrs old Abraham, Isaac & Jacob Moses & the exodus Christianity 2000 yrs old Jesus 3 subdivisions: Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Protestant Islam 1400 years old Mohammed (last prophet, considered last & greatest) Several divisions and levels of tolerance Hesselgrave’s Monotheistic
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that the existence of God is self-evident using this. Thomas offered The primary question that will be made an example of will be Question 2: The Existence of God. Seeing the Scholastic Method in these three articles will be an easy feat. With reading what he writes about and paying close attention to how he writes it, one can see strong elements of Scholasticism in his method of proving that God exists. Article One states the objections of the existence of knowledge, that God is “known”, as well
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Critically assess the Via Negativa as a means of knowing God In the Christian tradition, the via negativa (apophatic theology) refers to a way of speaking about God and his attributes through the way of the negative. Because God is beyond our capacity as human beings to comprehend, anything we can say of him is necessarily limited by our finite human understanding and his reality far surpasses our power of expression through our anthropocentric languages. It suggests that the closest way we can
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Augustine on God and Time I chose to do Augustine on God and Time. Augustine’s views are that things have happened in history can only be things that are in our minds, things that are present are only true because we can see them, and things that are going to happen in the future are only our expectations of what will happen. With this belief, Augustine believes that God only exists within time. Augustine is using his logic to come up with a theory as to why God decided to create the world
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“Eschatology: The Destiny of the Unsaved” Reconciling a good, loving God with the idea of eternal punishment is one of the most difficult things I have had to do in my Christian life. How can a God who loves us enough to shed His own blood for us then, at the end of our lives, send some of us away from Him to be punished forever? There are some different theories about what happens to us after we die. Eternal punishment is the idea that sin must be punished and those who have not received the
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How does Christianity respond to the issue of evil? This issue, the issue of evil, is something that many people have tried to understand. They have tried to understand why it exists. However evils existence then leads to the question, if there is a God, why does evil exist? Why does an all powerful, all knowing and all mighty God allow evil’s presence on earth, why isn't it being prevented? These questions have been answered by Christian philosophers of the past and present in an attempt to reinforce
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mainly in Latin with few in Dutch. The most important of his works include the brief treatise of God, Man and his happiness, the tractacus theologico-politico, the cogitata metaphysica and, above all, his masterwork, published after his death: the ethica ordine geometric demonstrate. In our presentation, we will discuss his metaphysics and on his metaphysics we look at what is substance, substance-monism, God and the world, and communication between substances. We will look at his ethics and on his ethics
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paper, I consider Leo Tolstoy’s view on “Is Religion Relevant?” through a well-known work of his called “The Confession”. Is Tolstoy right in claiming that to understand the importance of living a life full of meaning, truth, and understanding, one does need to experience the relevance and power of religion in their life? The answer is YES, Tolstoy is right, one can find through seeking out meaning, truth, and understanding that religion is relevant. I believe it is relevant based upon the truth founded
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governed by a God or some all powerful government. Now, this is not a representation of our world, because here we have the ability to choose and think on our own. However, because of this, people now have the ability to commit evil acts and cause chaos in people’s lives. In fact, evil is not even caused just by people, it is found within the order of the world itself, things like: weather, animals, natural disasters, etc. This is known as the Problem of Evil, or the idea that evil always exists despite
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New American Gods: The Video Game God There are gods, old and new, among us and little do people know they are born by humans. The Video Game god is a new god because people spend time, money, and worship games in a new ways which allows this new god to exist. People can say it’s in the past where gods have been created through worship but the creations of these gods haven’t stop just because people just stop worshipping certain named deities, but only have been forgotten. These gods still live
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