towards works that lead to salvation or he has the choice not to. Eramus writes to show that man can voluntarily choose (free will) salvation apart from God. Eramus seems to believe that there exists some type of cooperativeness with mankind and God. Whereas, Luther is writing to show that there exist no cooperativeness and salvation is the work of God alone. For the purposes of this paper I will discuss Luther’s arguments in sub-section two. In this paper I will review Luther’s argument regarding the
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superstructure of knowledge must have some sort of structural integrity to it. You can’t build your knowledge upwards or expand your structure without sure support beams to follow it up. Descartes then goes on to believing there is a demon that exists everywhere which tricks everyone that our senses are a
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Does luck exist? Some think they were just born lucky and that they just always have good luck, others just don’t have luck at all. If you ask St. Patrick himself, he might disagree because he believes in God and that he has the power to oversee everything that happens to you. On the other hand, if you ask someone who is not a religious seeker they might say that luck is just something that is magical or witchcraft. One thing that relates to luck is the little shamrocks- some believe if you find
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there is a mind-independent, external world” basically suggests 1) that the world and other material objects around us – e.g. tables, animals, other people – can exist independent of our perception and 2) that we can actually obtain knowledge about their existence. In this paper, I will criticize this claim by showing that, even if there exist an external world regardless of our perceptions, we can never “know” if they are actually part of our reality by just thinking about it. As a basis for discussion
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disasters that seem to flow from evil. Just being a Christian does not erase these realities or a need to find resolve. All of us must deal with these questions in a honest way, or be content to deny the understanding our minds wish for. This understanding must unify the basic beliefs we have in God: If God is all powerful and good then why would He allow evil to exist? Logic would take us to remove one of these characteristics of God. Either He is not really all powerful or good. This is where some
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The existence of evil is one of the world’s most vexing challenges. Most Christians agree on the existence of an omnipotent God, however like Augustine, we struggle to understand how evil comes into being. Evil corrupts our free will and enables us to sin, but if God is all-powerful and all good, how can he allow this to happen? “Whence comes evil? Was there a certain evil matter out of which he made these things? Did he form and fashion it, but yet leave within it something that he would not convert
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much diversity exists. All organisms have developed into their current form by evolving from their ancestors forms. In the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin (a well-known philosopher), mentions, "that each species had not been
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believed in the notions of cause and effect. His interest was to explain ‘why’ things exist as they do. However, he rejected the idea that things which exist in some way that imitate an ideal Form (he rejected Plato’s ideas). He identified four types of cause that make something what it is. This interest led Aristotle to suggest that there are four different types of cause or explanation of why any object exists. The Four causes provide answers for Aristotle. The Material cause, ‘what it is made from
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changes Wiesel’s be-lief in God from one of unquestioning faith to a cynical more callous view. As the book unfolds these two themes present themselves and are tied to the storyline and Wiesel’s disposition and mental state. Throughout the book, Wiesel often talks about his faith and how
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Examine the cosmological argument for the existence of God. The cosmological argument is an a posteriori argument which intends to prove that there is an intelligent being that exists; the being is distinct from the universe, explains the existence of the universe, and is omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent and omnibenevolent. The basic notion of cosmological arguments is that the world and everything in it is dependent on something other than itself for its existence. It explains that everything
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