Can One Be Moral and Not Believe In God? Aleshia Wisch PHI208: Ethics and Moral Reasoning Prof. Michael Kellam October 2‚ 2013 Can One Be Moral and Not Believe In God? Is it possible for an individual to live morally without believing in God? For someone who believes in God this may be a difficult question to answer. Whereas‚ someone who does not believe in God might immediately say that having morals has nothing to do with religion. So‚ to answer this question‚ we will look
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The Position of Gods and God The characterization of individuals through specific and repeated character descriptions are consistent with social norms and create binding values associated each character. In the Iliad‚ which can be considered the primary religious text of antiquity‚ godly epithets are used to accompany characters with dominant abilities. The Bible also features consistent divine descriptions throughout the various writings. By regularly featuring characters with “godlike” descriptions
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LECTURETTE - IS THERE GOD ? 1. ‘O God‚ help us to keep ourselves physically strong‚ mentally awake and morally straight‚ that in doing our duty to Thee and our country we may keep the honour of the Services untarnished’ …..it is the way we started our life everyday for three very important years of our life‚ I am just reciting it so as to refresh your memory….and to seek out the first line….”Oh God‚ help us to”……GOD…who is GOD….what is GOD….is it something that justifies our existence‚ something
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September 2013 How Can We Know God Exists? How can we prove the existence of an invisible being? The Bible says in John 1:18 and 1 John 4:12‚ “no one has ever seen God” (Nelson‚ 1994)‚ so how can we know he exists; especially with all the trouble in the world. Judging in this manner would indeed prove if anything‚ God doesn’t exist; however‚ although pain‚ sorrow‚ and sickness are in the world; God exists! The prophets of old‚ nature‚ and the scriptures prove the undeniable existence of God. The Bible
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Understanding the Roles of gods or goddess in Various Traditional Religions: A Case Study of Hinduism‚ Buddhism and Yorubaland Traditional Belief God‚ gods and goddesses represent different qualities in the human psyche‚ God which we all see as the creator of the universe often called the omnipotent (Everywhere)‚ omniscience and omnipresence while gods are usually the strongest and most influential determinants of a man’s personality‚ as the goddesses are for women. Different kind of gods; longevity‚ child
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“Can computers replace Human Beings?” What we think computer is ? Many of us think that computers are many times faster‚ more powerful and more capable when compared to humans simply because they can perform calculations thousands of time faster‚ workout logical computations without error and store memory at incredible speeds with flawless accuracy. Human Brain: We can only estimate the processing power of the average human brain as there is no way to measure it quantitatively as of yet
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Free Will Vilayandur S. Ramachandran came from a distinguished family in Tamil Nadu‚ India‚ and was neuroscientist‚ which is a field of study encompassing the various scientific disciplines dealing with the nervous system. Ramachandran ’s views on the brain and how it works are discussed in his work “The New Philosophy”. In his essay he discusses the nature of consciousness‚ discussing the effects of certain mental states and their influence on the body and the brain. One of his main topics‚ however
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answerable‚ questions that we‚ as human beings‚ ponder—why is there evil? This dilemma of why the world is filled with evil‚ anything bad ranging from bullying to natural disasters‚ has motivated atheists‚ those who reject God and His existence‚ to bring forward an argument called “The Problem of Evil”. Due to much debate on the topic‚ theists‚ those who believe in God‚ have tried to resolve the problem of evil by presenting multiple theodicies—attempts to justify or defend God in the face of evil. In this
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233/Section 09 Professor Carbonell "’ but she don’t seem to mind at all. Reckon dey understand one nother.’" A woman’s search for her own free will to escape the chains of other people in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. In the continuing philosophical debate of free will versus determinism‚ the question arises as to whether or not free will exists. Do people really have the capability of making decisions on their own? OR Is life already determined‚ and whatever we do is (and
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Does man have free will or does God have the absolute right to do with His creation as He desires? If God is the absolute ruler‚ then how free is man to make his own decisions? There is a widespread debate of whether or not we truly have free will. It is crucial to understand that sovereignty means supreme power or authority. This debate of Calvinism vs. Arminianism is one of the most troublesome debates in history. This paper illustrates that believing in God’s absolute sovereignty will lead us
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