Albert Einstein believed that‚ “the religion of the future will be a cosmic religion that should transcend a personal god and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both natural and spiritual‚ it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things‚ natural and spiritual and a meaningful unity” (Jammer‚ 1999). Buddhism qualifies as a religion depending on one’s point of view. If religion is defined as a system of worship or devotion to a higher deity then Buddhism does not
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Why Does God allow suffering? This question is probably as old as religion itself. It is a stumbling block for some of us‚ and for many more at given moments of tragedy. There are as many answers to this question as there are people who care to engage in theological dialogue. One understanding is that yes‚ God allows "bad" things to happen; God does not cause them to happen. Most "bad" things which happen do so because God gives a radical freedom to God’s people; we are free people‚ not puppets
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Miracles and Science: BY ARD LOUIS www.BioLogos.org The Long Shadow of David Hume* *This paper is a translation of A.A. Louis‚ “Wonderen en wetenschap: De lange schaduw van David Hume‚” Omhoog kijken in Platland‚ ed Cees Dekker‚ Rene’ van Woudenberg en Gijsbert van den Brink‚ Ten Have (2007). 1. Introduction: Miracles as violations of the laws of nature Unbelievable‚ isn’t it‚ that there are still students at this university who believe in stories from the Bible‚ said Martin‚ an older
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It is well established that the advancement of religion is a charitable purpose. Although the laws relating to charities mostly developed from Judaeo-Christian context[1] more faiths and sects have now been accepted to fall under this category. To understand how these changes developed it is necessary to investigate how the courts previously determined charitable status for an organisation under the head of advancement of religion. There is no statutory definition of charity however before any
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Personal and Professional Ethical Belief System Farah Nail University of Phoenix In the human services field‚ personal ethical belief systems combined with professional ethics work in partnership to guide human service professionals in unraveling ethical dilemmas. An increasing number of professionals and clients seek out to define the fundamental policies of the human services field. Humans develop an integration of values‚ standards‚ and beliefs from birth throughout life. The values‚ standards
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senses and it is synthetic meaning that it is from observation. The argument is also inductive meaning there a number of possible conclusions. The main basis of the Teleological argument is based on a designer commonly known as ‘the classical God of theism’ (hereafter referred to as God) The outline of the design argument is that the universe has order and purpose and is regular‚ the complexities of the universe demonstrate some form of design‚ a design requires a designer‚ and this designer is God
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Christian ’s today can learn the importance of cultural relevance and fervor from the "Jesus Freaks." Sydney E. Ahlstrom of Yale University said‚ "the decade of the sixties‚ in short‚ was a time when the old grounds of not only historic Western theism were awash‚ but also the older forms of national confidence and social idealism." In fact‚ he continues to say the sixties would be seen as a decisive turning point in American history (Ahlstrom 100-103). In this‚ Ahlstrom was right. The decade
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Epistemology How do we know what we know? Is what we believe to be truth really truth? A branch of Philosophy that seeks out to answer these questions and to discover the origin of knowledge is Epistemology. Much of what we believe is based on allegations and generalizations rather than established evidence. That’s way so many people have different beliefs throughout the world. I will be discussing more of these Worldviews in a later paragraph. Right now I’d like to continue to focus on Epistemology
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Modern English poetry in India is one of the many new literatures which began to emerge at the end of the Second World War‚ after the end of colonialism. Unlike the Africa and Caribbean creative writings‚ modern Indian poetry in English did not have an obvious direct relationship with the cultural movements that had led to national independence. The emergence of modern English poetry was a part of modernization which included urbanization‚ industrialization‚ mobility‚ independence‚ social change
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Moral Responsibility and Divine Freedom Classical theism contains a conception of one single God‚ a being of great power‚ wisdom‚ and goodness. This God is not just a great being or even the greatest being of all beings that have existed or will exist‚ but the greatest possible being. This means that God is a being which no greater being can exist or even be conceived to exist. Naturally then‚ God is taken to be a being whose goodness‚ power‚ and knowledge are such that it is logically impossible
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