proving the existence of God. By proving that God is the one that gives us a clear and different perception which means‚ that God is perfect in every way and the he does not deceive anyone. Because of this he is able to secure a sense of certainty for these clear and distinct perceptions‚ therefore he is setting out to prove that God exists. He gives two arguments for the existence of God. He gives a role God plays in his theory of knowledge. I agree with Descartes argument about his theory on the
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inspiration for The Bible and how it came from God to us‚ there are a few theories. The three theological concepts are: orthodoxy‚ modernism‚ and Neoorthodoxy. Each of these movements arose in different successful times of the Church. For much of history‚ the Orthodox have held sway. The Orthodox believe The Bible is the word of God‚ while Modernist believe it is merely contains the word of God‚ and the Neoothodoxy believe scripture is fallible human witness to the word of God (who is Christ). Looking
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Bustamante HZT 4U1 Buonafede‚ D. April 18‚ 2017 Argument for God’s Existence In post-modern era‚ society is more inclined towards modern philosophy. This results in people to be composed of social construct and ideologies such as socialism‚ capitalism‚ feminism and progressivism. Thus‚ the causality of fragmentation in a Western society are due to the clash of conflicting ideologies. In order to counteract the ideology‚ one must argue the existence of God. It is a common reality which one can presuppose
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Are Aquinas’ arguments for the existence of God convincing? Do they have any value? Needless to say‚ Aquinas upset many of the popular theological ideas prevalent before him. Even though his work was unfinished at the time of his death‚ his ideas were brought into the theology of the church‚ giving Christianity a genuine intellectual and rational foundation. Aquinas’ work influenced the philosophical climate of the day and gave reason a legitimate place in Christian theology. One of Thomas’s
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The debate of whether God exists or does not has been going on from the time of the ancient philosophers such as St. Aquinas and St. Anselm‚ who both supported the existence of God‚ whereas‚ many years later there were those who tried to disprove the arguments presented. Some of these disbelievers include Immanuel Kant‚ Friedrich Nietzsche and David Hume‚ all whom argue that God does not indeed exist. Although God is considered dead and nonexistent by many‚ he does indeed exist because something
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2014 Topic 3: The Certainty that God Is After reading the two paragraphs written by scholars I have come to three different conclusions. The author of the first argument claims that God does in fact exist and he is also infinite. The author of the second argument claims that humans are not capable of comprehending the idea of infinite‚ therefore we cannot argue that God is infinite or that he exists at all. Finally‚ Descartes claims that by The Method of Doubt‚ God is the one idea that cannot be doubted
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One of the most interesting arguments for the Existence of God comes from Anselm and the Ontological argument. According to the Ontological argument‚ there is no reason to go out and look for physical evidence of God’s existence. The ontological argument is based completely on reason and comes from the concept of a “being than which no greater can be conceived.” Anselm suggested that if such a “being” does not truly exist then a greater being can be conceived. But how does this make any sense? Nothing
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together. One major topic in metaphysics is the existence of God‚ and there are many philosophical arguments from the theist and atheist side trying to prove whether God exists or not. In philosopher Ernest Nagel’s “A Defense of Atheism” he proves to dispel the classical arguments for the existence of God as well as give an atheistic view on why there could not be a God. Instead of just dispelling the theistic arguments Nagel brings forth an argument in defense of Atheism regarding the existence of evil
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Descartes’ Argument for the Existence of God Descartes’ Meditations serve as a faithful yet skeptical support for the existence of God. He uses a method of doubt‚ calling all of knowledge into question‚ to pursue a deep level of God and human’s existence. He creates controversial circular reasoning when he creates rules to define the existence of God through the use of the Truth Principle‚ the causal principle‚ and the belief that God is no deceiver‚ which all support one another. To argue the existence
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When exploring the word of God in the Old Testament (OT)‚ it is important to locate the texts into a social and historical context. It is in this context that the word of God is mediated by human expression. To deny the human expression is effectively to place a barrier between the word of God and it’s invitation to revelation. The OT can be seen as a “record of people’s experience of God’s self-revelation” (Rohr & Martos‚ 2011‚ p. 22). Thus the theology underpinning the OT meaning and understanding
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