Does God Exist Essay

with this idea there is a higher power, which people refer to as God. Pascal stated, “In short it is the greatest sensible mark of the almighty power of God, that imagination loses itself in that of thought” (Spielvogel p. 495). He believed that people were so caught up in their imagination that they could not distinguish between what was real and what was fake. Pascal seems to argue that God does not exist. He seems to argue that God is just a thought that some people have that they believe is…

of Evil In Augustine Confessions, Book Seven, Augustine talks about his views on the origin of evil. The first thing he talks about is how evil exists because of our free will (119). Augustine states how God would not have created evil because He is not able to be corrupted (120). God could not let evil into the world because evil is corrupted while God is incorruptible (120). Free will allows evil to come into because it gives humans a choice to either commit an evil act or not. Augustine then…

how you blame God for the holocaust you don’t understand why we have to go through so much torture. After all we are Gods chosen people. But the thing is no one understands God. We can’t blame God for anything that is going on in our lives. We just have to pray that in his best interest that good will come out of this evil. You know how long ago Moses was a slave and so were his people. Those people were going through torture just like us. They had to starve, work, and pray that God will one day…

Reason Series Paragraphs For the first segment of the Reason Series the topic of conversation revolves around one main question “Can science disprove God?” and all the little questions that go along with it. After watching the video, the most convincing answer I took away from the segment’s essential question “Can science disprove God?” was the idea that science can never truly disprove anything. It struck me profoundly for I had never realized that although someone could go to every planet,…

is a description of how God could have created a world with all the evil in it, and how it is possible for all this evil creatures to exist in the world. It attempts to defend God in response the problem of evil that militates against the existence of an omnipotent and omniscient deity. It describes how all the evil in this world could be necessary for some good - some good that makes the world better than it would otherwise be. Apart from having evil in this world, God also allow his creatures…

The belief of religion answers all questions that people may have such as Is There a God? If there is a God, what is he like?, And what does that mean for us. The Arguments for Gods existence comes in many forms. Like opinions, some comes from history, personal experiences, different beliefs, and some comes from science. These arguments have been going on for more than thousands of years. And over time that is when other well known religions have come about. When other religions come we then ask…

His mysterious name, YHWH (I AM WHO I AM), God says who He is and by what name He is to be called. This divine name is mysterious just as God is mystery. One of these is that since God is Being, He upholds and sustains all of creation and all creatures in being, enables them to act and brings them to their final end. Father Barron considers Anselm's "Ontological Argument", his description of God as that than which nothing greater can be thought; also God cannot be limited by the categories of…

believes in a god or gods, they are a theist. From the root word “theism,” we are able to understand and break down the basis for the two main types of religion; monotheistic and polytheistic. When a person does not believe in a god or gods, they are atheistic; one category of atheism is monistic religions. Monotheism is the belief in only one god. Monotheistic religions, such as Christianity, believe that God created man and that man became somehow separated from the likeness of God through…

Underestimating God When something evil is happening it is normal for mankind to go through the five stages of grieving (Axelrod, 2006). Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and finally acceptance are all normal parts of processing a detrimental moment in life. No two individuals will go through the stages in the same time or even the same order yet rest assured that at some point we will all ask: why? As part of our quest to understand our relationship with the rest of mankind and God we…

Female Face of God in Auschwitz, and Living with a Wild God. As well the movie Of Gods and Men and the readings of Descartes in philosophy. My reasoning for this Journey was to find out who God really was to me. I had always learned within my religion of Catholicism who God was to my church but I had never questioned anything I had been brought up to believe. To start I realized in order to establish a strong base for my argument I must find out where the traditional views of God have come…