Nice Student PHL 267 09/19/12 The reason for God- Timothy Keller “How could God Allow suffering” If God is good‚ why is there so much suffering and evil doing in the world today? Look at 9/11‚ why couldn’t God stop the terrorist’s from doing these awful things to our beautiful nation? At one point in our lives we all have experienced some sort of suffering‚ weather it may be the passing of a family member‚ getting robbed‚ not living in livable conditions‚ or just plain dislikes
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In this world everybody is puzzled about the creation of humanity.Some people believe in the existence of the God and some don’t.Some people search for eternal peace through the beliefs in God;but this is an impossible belief because of the chances ‚the plausibility and science is yet to prove it. God generally refers to one holy‚supreme‚ personal being. The divine unity of ultimate goodness and of ultimate reality.It was not possible to visualise the concept of this perfect being because one can
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I found Descartes’ way of thinking very interesting when compared to Aristotle. Descartes doubts the existence of God when he decides to start over and completely ignore his senses. He states in his third meditation‚ “…and I do not yet even know for sure whether there is a God at all…I must examine whether there is a God‚ and if there is‚ whether he can be a deceiver.” (25) Descartes makes a goal for himself to find out if there is a God and who he is. According to Aquinas we will never be able to
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Sophie’s World Notes Introduction Questions posed: Who are you? Is there life after death? Where does the world&universe come from? Why are we here? How ought we to live? Is the human brain like an advanced computer? Ideas: “It’s tragic that people have to get ill to appreciate life”‚ the possibility of something coming from nothing‚ we study philosophy because reading what others think can help us formulate our own ideas. We are aware that we are part of something mysterious. Philosophy
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The poem ‘The Planners’ by Boey Kim Cheng mentions the city structure and shows that perfection‚ uniformity and control over nature are the main concepts in this city plan. The wish for perfection and uniformity of the planners in the poem highlights another theme which is the control over nature. The aim of the powerful planners is to change the country they live in the way they want. Therfore‚ they want to have the power and potential to control the thoughts of people. The planners referred in
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The idea of “sufficiency” is speculative and dependent upon the context in which it is presented. The Paradise of Adam and Eve was sufficient because it served its purpose fully. It had more than enough amenities to sustain the two of them and had more than they could ever use within their lifetime. And Adam and Eve in their time in Paradise were immortal‚ to say that Paradise for them was sufficient is beyond comprehension compared to the current world of scarce resources. For example‚ when Eve
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De Jong makes a similar argument regarding this. She claims that in 822‚ Louis “acted from a position of strength‚ and this was exactly the quality that his behavior must have conveyed to those present-certainly to the clerics. Instead of forcing him into obedience‚ the bishops followed his ‘most salubrious example.’” While these are all equally important arguments‚ it is hard to actually grasp the mind of Louis at this point in time. Yes‚ from the sources it appears that he really strove to be
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truth‚ accepting the sum of present consciousness which ultimately allows an evolutionary transition‚ transcending the Cartesian Dilemma‚ aka‚ Descartes’ Mind/Body dualism. Although we are each a single individual‚ our minds and our bodies seem to exist in two separate worlds which operate on separate rules. The dilemma is unifying the two‚ made possible by transcending the duality entirely. This allows the emergence of de-limited spirit which then provides the world with a third path‚ the Path of
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Fallen is a thought-provoking -person narrative film that begins and ends with the voice of the film’s narrator and protagonist‚ Azazel. The movie‚ which is based on his personal story‚ opens with an intriguing self-introduction that snares the audience’s attention from the outset: “I want to tell you about the time I almost died.” As the movie proceeds‚ Azazel reveals that he is responsible for killings‚ as well as the false indictment and subsequent suicide of a detective named John Hobbes. Azazel
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There have been an innumerable amount of arguments for the existence of God for hundreds of years. Some have become much more popular due to their merit‚ and their ability to stay relevant through changing times. Two arguments in particular that have been discussed for a very long time are the ontological and cosmological arguments. Each was proposed in the period of the high middle ages by members of the Roman Catholic Church. They each have been used extensively by many since their introduction
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