THE INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF RELIGION HAKEEM KOLAPO FUJAH APPLIED THEORY OF PEACE AND PEACE EDUCATION SERIES DISCUSSION PAPER 1 IS IT LOGICAL TO BELIEVE IN GOD? Are these extraordinary times? To win the ideological war against terrorism and protect the minds of youth from radicalization is engaging enough. Equally worrying is mounting evidence that too many people across continents may be losing their minds. Alongside possible over-population‚ joblessness and emasculation
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The Messenger of the Gods Thieves‚ Merchants‚ and even sheep! These are all things that Hermes likes to hang around‚ as well as being the messenger of the gods. Big title‚ right? Let’s talk about that. Hermes‚ also known as Mercury in the Roman culture is the god of merchants‚ thievery‚ and shepherds. He also acting as the messenger of the gods. We was good friends with Zeus‚ his father‚ and Apollo‚ the sun god. He became friends with Apollo at a very early age. As the story goes‚ as an infant
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and science. That feeling of guilt‚ which was a result of thinking‚ would never leave me. In more words‚ when I felt more religious I felt guilty because I crossed the lines of the religion and I wasted time questioning Islam instead of worshipping God with accordance to it‚ and
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comforted her that it is the will of God. Esteban pressed folded bills to Dr. Lazaro’s hand and thanked him for coming that far and at that hour of the night. When Dr. Lazaro and Ben was on their way home he asked Ben if he baptized the baby and Ben confirmed it. Dr. Lazaro asked Ben what would happen if he did not baptized the baby and the latter told him that the baby will not be able to see God. Dr. Lazaro questioned the teachings of the church. He ceased to believe in God maybe because of the things that
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Is Belief in God Rational? I believe that God is good‚ the one Supreme Being‚ the creator and the ruler of the universe and belief in God is rational. God to me is a higher power and an entity that is above and beyond the universe. He created the universe and the physical laws that govern it. “The Lord made the earth by his power; by his wisdom he created the world and stretched out the heavens.” (Jeremiah 51:15) The verse tells us that the earth was made by His power‚ established by His
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Johnson PHL 204 5/21/12 God vs. Evil In the beginning God created‚ and it was good. The Jewish‚ Christian‚ and Islamic Creation story all begin with the light‚ the Word‚ and God’s opinion of it all being “good”. Evil is not introduced into the story until Genesis 3 when Eve and Adam took the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge and ate. Their eyes were opened to the nakedness of each other and to the understanding of what is good and what is bad. This was not something God had intended‚ yet it was
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Pascal says “If there is a God‚ He is infinitely incomprehensible‚ since‚ having neither parts nor limits‚ He has no affinity to us’’ (Pascal‚ 2). Throughout Pascal’s argument he makes the constant notion believing in order to gain finite happiness‚ how is it possible to know if God is willing to provide this infinite gain if he is infinitely incomprehensible? This critical mistake is the very reason Pascal’s argument doesn’t work‚ we just don’t have the knowledge to know about what truly happens
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The Relationship of God and Humans God thinks within geniuses‚ dreams within poets‚ and sleeps within the rest of us~ ACU poet. God in general has a unique way of manipulating things especially when it comes to human beings. Throughout this paper my plan is to persuade you that the relationship between God and human beings in Genesis was a relationship of‚ trust‚ jealousy‚ and loyalty. Loyalty is a virtue with God because of the Adam and Eve story. “And the lord god commanded the man‚ you may
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Disproving the Christian God According to a UN statistical report‚ God let more than a quarter of a million people get raped in the past year. People should stop believing in the bible‚ and god and Jesus as presented in the gospels because it is inaccurate and opposes logic and reasoning. Arguments will come that while it is true that God is infallible‚ and the Bible is the true word of God‚ the Bible was in fact written by man‚ who can commit errors. The Bible states that God’s word is unchanging
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In “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”’ Jonathan Edwards uses appeal to fear to help his audience experience the consequences of sinful behavior. One such image is when Jonathan says “ a wide and bottomless pit‚ full of the fire of wrath‚ that you are held over in the hand of that God…..nothing you can do‚ to induce God to spare you one moment…”. Edwards is trying to make you imagine that you are been held by God over the pit of hell. This appeals to fear by creating anxiety of not knowing when
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