‘Religious experience can be used as evidence for the existence of God’ A religious experience is an encounter with God when you experience transcendent reality and it you cannot will it to happen. A direct religious experience refers to events where God reveals him/herself directly to the person having the experience. The experience is not chose or willed by the person; the person experiences or observes God in some way. An indirect religious experience refers to experiences‚ thoughts or feelings
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filled with numerous acts of evil every day. All of these facts seemed to be pinned against the existence of god makes people doubt the religion
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writes‚ “…for nothing is certain‚ and that there is more certainty in religion than there is as to whether we may see to-morrow; for it is not certain that we may see to-morrow‚ and it is certainly possible that we may not see it.” I found this to be a good argument and it caught my interest because I have never taken this into consideration before. There are many things that people do even though they are uncertain of them. Religion is another example of how we can act on uncertainty. We are certain
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Exegesis of Romans 1:18-21 Fred G. Zaspel‚ 1993 Introduction Following some introductory remarks leading to a statement of his theme‚ namely the saving power of the gospel of God’s righteousness received by faith (1:16-17)‚ the apostle Paul begins in this section to develop his argument. "The righteousness of God" revealed in the gospel is a gift of God received on the sole basis of faith (dikaiosune theou . . . ek pisteos v.17) in Jesus Christ. This justifying righteousness is the heart
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Descartes was a foundationalist. His goal was to find certain indubitable ideas to use as a foundation to build his thoughts. His aim was to find a single or multiple certainties to build his thoughts off of. Descartes figures that if he can come up with a hyperbolic doubt and some idea can still survive through this ultimate doubt then this is the most certain scenario. This hyperbolic doubt becomes to believe is‚ “ not that there is a supremely good God who is the source of all truth‚ but that
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The problem of evil as stated from Mackie’s perspective is that it challenges the idea of God and his characteristics of omnipotence‚ omniscient and omni-benevolence. He says that if such a being exist why it would let bad things happen to innocent‚ good people and in the world in general? Mackie propones the use of deductive logic to conclude that God does not exist because if he would exist he would stop evil‚ his position is stated as the logical problem of evil. The construction of his arguments
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After William James’s students “got well imbued with the logical spirit” (William James 130) they began to question his belief in God because it could not be proven through logic and he had no evidence to back up his claim. This inspired him to write his essay “The Will to Believe” in which he attempts to explore and refute Pascal’s logical reason to believe in God‚ and William Cliffords argument that any claim made without strong evidence to back it is a morally wrong claim‚ despite what the truth
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Cited: Cahn‚ Steven M. Classics of Western Philosophy. 7th ed. Indianapolis‚ IN: Hackett Pub.‚ 2006. Print.
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http://www.peterkreeft.com/topics/evil.htm (accessed February 23‚ 2013) Manson‚ Neil. God and Design: The Teleological Argument and Modern Science. London: Routledge‚ 2003. Tooley‚ Michael‚ "The Problem of Evil"‚ The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2013 Edition)‚ Edward N. Zalta (ed.)‚ forthcoming‚ http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2013/entries/evil/ (accessed February 23‚ 2013)
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In 1996 John Hick‚ a British Philosopher‚ was able to trace the history of Theodicy also known as the question of why a benevolent god allows evil to exist. In his text Evil and the God of Love‚ Hick states that there are three major beliefs that exist; The Plotinian Theodicy‚ the Augustinian Theodicy‚ and the Irenaean Theodicy. John Hick however decides to focus a large part of his attention on the Augustinian and Irenaean Theodicy’s. While both have similar explanations to why God can exist with
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