Christian theology

Critique of the ideas for the Existence of God For thousands of years the idea of God have been questioned and proposed by philosophers, scientists and scholars alike. Many have argued for and against its existence and it’s still a subject of heated debates in the present day. Since God is a notion about an entity that was never seen or heard from by anyone, it has been a strenuous struggle to substantiate his existence. Yet, great philosophers have always found a way to validate the idea of God

Fear of the unknown has been a constant thread intricately interwoven throughout the tapestry of my life. Although intricate in color and vast in depth, it has furrowed a chasm in my past, present and dare I say future. As a seminarian on the verge of graduation the prior statement may appear somewhat odd. Aptly applying a biblical scripture such as “God has not given us the spirit of fear, but power, love and a sound mind”, should suffice to calm anxiety and trepidation. However, I have not

No doubt there is horrific evil that exists within the world. Acts of violence, greed, and corruption describe moral evil that humanity commits while innocents suffer as well as the existence of natural evil such as catastrophic disasters and disease that plague mankind as well. All the while, a divine sovereign God who brought forth life governs over his flock of children that suffer as a result of these evils. The traditional theists believe God is all-knowing or omniscient, all-powerful or

Overview of Perfectionism In the book, The Quick-Reference Guide to Biblical Counseling: Personal and Emotional Issues, by Clinton and Hawkins in 2009, it states that perfectionism is “a disposition to feel that anything less than perfect is unacceptable. Perfectionism is rooted in the need for control and affirmation.” From youth to adulthood we can see that numerous people in our society struggle with being a perfectionist. There are two different types of perfectionists, which include Type A

to move beyond his internal thoughts to discuss external objects. Descartes decides that the Christian God is the bridge he needs to escape the confines of his own mind, and argues for the existence of God in the Third Meditation in order to move on to discussing the physical world. In this paper I will argue that Descartes’ rationalistic project would have been improved without an appeal to the Christian God, although I will also argue that Descartes thinks this appeal is necessary. Descartes declares

I want to make sure that Jen is given the opportunity to express everything she feels in a safe and comfortable environment. It is a priority that she sees me as being on her side and that she does not feel judged for what she shares. She is a Christian, which makes bringing Jesus into her counselling much easier. Reconciliation to God is my main goal as her counsellor, but my first steps are to find out what help, if any, she has sought to process the actions of her husband, discover what she perceives

In Descartes Third Meditation, he tries desperately to prove that god exists; he does so by clearing all thoughts because they potentially could be false. He uses the fact that God thinks in order to prove his existence. In the third meditation he presents two arguments for the proof of his existence. I believe that these arguments contain many flaws. In the third mediation, Descartes moves forward in the establishment of the idea of certainty. He decides that the truths he earlier discovered in

In this paper I will consider the postmodern worldview and its popular relativistic claims alongside of my theistic worldview where God almighty exist and as such, has revealed Himself to the world. For the postmodern worldview, the ideas and behaviors of man are more of a perception of what reality is and not an absolute. Phillips, Brown, and Stonestreet (2008) refer to postmodernism this way, “The focus of postmodernism is on how we perceive and how we describe what the world is” (p.53). Further

One of the most important ideas upon which Descartes’s proof of the existence of God rests is that rational minds face constraints. While God is the absolute infinite, humans and other beings exist with limitations on their actions. One of these limitations is human intellect, which Descartes names as one component of the cause of our tendency toward error as humans. The finite nature of human intellect, he argues, combines with an infinite will which causes us to seek an understanding of phenomena

I do not find the three arguments I analyzed satisfactory for the existence of God. The existence of God simply cannot be proven. Regardless of how strong a person’s faith is, or how many miracles they claim to have witnessed, God can only ever be a possibility. First, I will discuss why Pascal’s wager is not a satisfying argument for the existence of God. I will then examine C.D. Broad’s “Argument for the Existence of God”, and why it is also not a satisfying argument for the existence of God