10 FACTS SUPPORTING EXISTENCE OF HEAVEN AND HELL While majority of atheists believe that the existence of heaven and hell is not provable‚ basing their arguments on ignorance‚ I believe that God exists due to my faith‚ religion and scientific knowledge; and because He does exist‚ so does Hell and Heaven. Heaven is the home of the righteous whereas Hell is its opposite according to religious teachings; most arguments supporting the evidence of Hell and Heaven are based on religious beliefs. In accordance
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ATHIESM: A RELIGION? Throughout the countless generations of our existence‚ we as a global community have pondered a variety of noteworthy enquiries. Most notably‚ the following come to the forefront. How did the universe come into existence? Does God exist? Does evil exist? What is the ultimate reality? The emergence of these thought provoking questions is something we as a society have become accustomed to debating. Rationally speaking‚ there simply cannot be one precise justification for these
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Respond to the following quotation: “The Holocaust shows not only that religious faith is untenable but also that life is absurd. A powerful and loving God could not create a world in which such events are possible. Religion is wishful thinking -- ‘Fear created the first gods’ (Caecilius Statius‚ 2nd c. BCE). Moreover‚ life itself contradicts the most basic of human aspirations: to live without suffering and cruelty.” Etty herself discusses these issues‚ so in responding be sure to show that you
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He starts by refuting Descartes triangle example‚ and objects Descartes attempt to transfer the logic to the existence of God. He argues that a triangle has three sides only if it first exists‚ a nonexistent triangle has no existing sides. Saying that a triangle has three sides does not mean that a triangle actually exists. He then continues on to declare that the claim “God exists” is either analytic or synthetic‚ if it is analytic then the predicate is contained with the subject‚ if its
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(Pearson-Macmillan‚ 1983). Question #1: Explain Socrates’ view of himself as a philosopher. Answer: From the Oracle representing the God of Delphi‚ Socrates firstly got the message that no one is wiser than him. Considering both the facts that it’s impossible for him to be the wisest man and also impossible for god to lie‚ Socrates starts thinking and tries to figure out what god really meant. Then‚ he decided to challenge god’s statement by searching for someone who is undoubtedly wiser than him. After
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a debate on God’s existence has remained a very heated argument that has been carried down through generations. Several arguments have been brought forward by those who are against the claim that God exists as well as by those who are for the argument. These arguments can be of cosmological or teleological nature. Cosmological arguments are based on philosophical laws as they try to argue for or against the origin of man and how they help describe the origin of God’s existence. Teleological arguments
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Cabrera Is the questions of God meaningful or meaningless? I. Introduction A. Background i. In modern society the question of God’s existence is still questioned. ii. There must be a rational outcome in proving the existence of God. B. Issues i. From the side of the Atheist‚ they say that God’s existence is meaningless because he can’t be observed by humans which give the Theists no proof of his existence. ii. Saint Thomas’s point to the existence of God is that there is a necessary being
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and divided line. In the divided line he changed the good to god‚ said the forms are in gods mind‚ and that god is the only one who can make sensible objects possible. In the two world view St. Augustine said that not all activity is physical‚ there is also spiritual activity. b. Aquinas was taught by Albert the Great. Albertus Magnus was the man that translated Aristotle’s teachings into Latin. Aquinas sat out to prove the existence of god using his five proofs. Aquinas five proofs are: the proof
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applied to things other than God‚ it led to invalid conclusions. Gaunilo didn’t identify any specific fault with the argument‚ but argued that something must be wrong with it‚ because if there wasn’t anything wrong‚ then we can use its logic to prove anything‚ which we may have no reason to believe to be true. For instance‚ Gaunilo argued that it’s possible to construct an argument in the exact same form as the ontological argument‚ that claims to prove the existence of the perfect island: this island
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a Monk Named Gaunilo‚ who argued against Anselm’s ontological Argument with the use of the concept of a perfect island. Gaunilo argued that concept of a perfect island does not prove that the existence of an island. In this case that perfection does not imply ‘existence’. Gaunilo claims that if the word God was replaced with the words perfect island‚ then Anselm’s ontological argument would not conclude that the perfect island exists. The fact Gaunilo was trying to bring across that a valid argument
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