How Does Spinoza Exist

The reign of Augustus was an age of enormous architectural and artistic avidity, where he combined conservatism and revolutionary new ideas. The establishment of a Principate in 27BC created a stability which enabled a long-term, comprehensive planning programme to be worked out for the monuments of Rome. Suetonius emphasises that Augustus not only “restored, ruined or burned temples” he also improved the infrastructure where “He improved the approaches to the city, repaving the Via Flaminia […] at his own expense”. Emperor Augustus and his family provided much of the patronage for his projects, which drew architects, sculptors and painters to Rome. This created the right conditions for art and architecture on a grand scale. With this patronage

God has perfect morals but yet again it begs us to question that. If god created us and he, himself is perfect why are we not perfect? Why did he create us to be so imperfect? if god himself is perfect; does a god like that deserve to be worship? If god has this attribute then god would actually want his creation to be just as perfect as himself. If god is perfect and we are mirror image of god then we too should be perfect, and if we are in fact perfect then we should acquire the moral perfection attribute. But this is not the case, humans are imperfect by nature. Humans lie, disobey, steal, and murder amongst many other things. Some are better at resisting visceral urges than others but Humans are anything but perfection. We lack the moral perfection attribute that God possesses. If Moral perfection refers to doing good deeds, why are we not given such attributes if we are to live among one another in this

Boethius concluded from his characterization of an eternal god that God is like a bird flying over a man walking down the path, the bird can see where the man has been, where he is and where he is about to go all at once. This is a power that God is able to use due to him being outside of time, he can see everyone’s past present and future simultaneously. His knowledge is total however not causal.

He is the designer of the whole universe and is perfect in every way. God has numerous attributes that reveal to us his great character. God reveals these attributes through his word and his mighty

Why does an omnipotent and omnibenevolent God allow natural and moral evil to happen without any restrictions? John Hick, a proponent of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s theodicy defense, answered: “in order that human beings, as free responsible agents, may use this world as a place of “soul making,” which involves the spiritual perfection of our character and persons” (Pojman 74). According to Hick, creation has not been finished its work, it is still undergoing a process, that is, the lives of individual human beings. Hick believed that God is omnibenevolent because he is allowing us to learn how to be perfect on our own.

In Chapters 1 and 2 of Genesis, we are told that God creates both the universe and everything that is in it. Thomas Aquinas, a leading scholar of the Middle Ages, argued that “Everything in the universe has a cause. Trace those causes back and there must have been a First Cause that triggered everything else. God is that First Cause.”

First, many theologians have assumed that if God is all-powerful, omnipotent, which the Bible clearly teaches (e.g., 1Chron 29:11; Jer 32:17; Mt 19:26; Rev 1:8; 19:6), that nothing in his creation can ever thwart his will. At the very least, it is reasoned, God

idea is greater than myself, there must be a perfect being who has caused this

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One possible answer is the fact that we can not see what God’s plans are, and so in the scheme of the entire universe our error could be making everything perfect. A second and more in-depth answer Descartes argues errors are mistaken judgments. When looking at what a judgment is composed of, one finds it involves two things, the intellect and the will. Both are faculties of the soul or self; whose existence is proved in the second meditation. The Intellect is limited, “through the intellect alone, [one] merely perceives ideas about which [one] can render a judgment. Strictly speaking, no error is to be found in the intellect when properly viewed in this manner.” (56) There is no error because the intellect does not make a judgment it simply takes in information. Descartes says error arises when the will affirms or denies a judgment the intellect has

Anselm states that it is not that God causes something not to be, rather, he just stops preserving its being. The reason Anselm does this is that he believes that people improperly say that God, as He is the only one able to sustain being, is the one who decides when something has or doesn’t have being. This point of view would obviously contrast with the fact that God gives only good things. Furthermore, the same thinking is applied to temptation, which is far more relevant to the problem of evil. Anselm thinks that it is wrong to say that God leads into temptation, because he does not stop temptation. This line of reasoning applies to the Devil as well; it is wrong to say that God led the Devil into temptation because he did not stop him even though he is the only one able to.

This is a great blow against classic theology that describes God as all-powerful, all-knowing, all-good, ect… However, the process theologians argue that God is the most-powerful being, the most-knowing being, and the most-good being that could exist. This slight change in thinking complete attacks the view of the classical theologian’s views in their perfect God. In process theology many arguments are made to fight the “all” standing of the classical Theologians. Arguments that point the inconsistency of an all-powerful and all-good God that allows evil to exist in the world. A popular response to the existence of evil is that God graced humanity with the gift of free will. However, the process theologians have asked how an all knowing God can allow free will, if he knows what everyone will choose. These two arguments against that “all” God have allowed the process to take a slightly weaker stance, the “most” God. This allows God to know the most possible, but not necessarily all future events. And therefore free will is plausible and evil can exist in a world where an extremely good and extremely powerful God also

The Final Cause causes movement and gives purpose to everything in the universe. It could be argued that the final cause given by the Prime Mover is for everything to simply change. However, Aristotle describes the prime mover as God, implying that it obtaining goodness is our purpose. Therefore, it is God that attracts everything to himself while remaining unaffected. Aristotle supposed God’s existence to be necessary, inferring that God does not depend on anything else for existence. He lacks the potential and therefore does not change, exists outside our temporal reality, making him eternal. Aristotle stated that eternal beings are essentially good; there can be no imperfection in something that existing necessarily. Evil originates from a lack of, something which should exist. This would have to be the mere absence of ‘actuality’ that Aristotle stated God

The depiction of God in the Bible’s story of creation, namely Genesis, brings to mind the image of an omnipotent, almighty and all-powerful child playing in a sandbox. Like a child his sole purpose seems to be to simply amuse himself, and possibly acquire a source of unconditional love. These needs are in contrast to the classic view of God acting with the idea of an ultimate plan. His actions clearly show that there is no perfect plan, or if there is it must be grossly overcomplicated. Consistently God makes poor decisions, and then eventually acts to fix the situation. The whole scenario conjures up an image of the crew of Apollo 13, alternately breaking things and then patching it together

Marijuana is most often see as a detrimental drug, but to a great deal of people it helps cure diseases and/or relieve the pain from them. It helps relieve stress and anxiety to people who often have anxiety attacks or problems being in a social environment. Making marijuana legal could also help our overall economy if regulated. Most people think smoking cannabis is bad for your health when that is not entirely the case. Any type of smoking is bad for your lungs, but conveniently marijuana come in many different forms including edibles, chewable and even liquid form marijuana. Marijuana is less harmful and addicting than both alcohol and cigarettes. Marijuana should be legal for those who are eligible to buy it and also to others