A Reasonable Response Answers to Tough
... Introduction For example, two people may ask about whether there are good arguments for God’s existence. Even if posed as the same question, it does not follow that an identical answer should be given. For two people could ask the same question out of different needs and desires, background, degre ...
... Introduction For example, two people may ask about whether there are good arguments for God’s existence. Even if posed as the same question, it does not follow that an identical answer should be given. For two people could ask the same question out of different needs and desires, background, degre ...
DAY of DESTINY - Bible Sabbath Home
... who wants to be a child of God. But it should also be pointed out: it demands nothing less than that. And it is not an insignificant change in a person's life. The famous Vulgate rendering of the concept of Metanoia is Poenitentia. This gives three English words of the same root. It is rendered not ...
... who wants to be a child of God. But it should also be pointed out: it demands nothing less than that. And it is not an insignificant change in a person's life. The famous Vulgate rendering of the concept of Metanoia is Poenitentia. This gives three English words of the same root. It is rendered not ...
islamic view of omniscience and human freedom
... philosophical concept of Omniscience.6 He does not discuss the bearings of any concept of Omniscience for actions of human free will. Syed Abul A’la Moududi (1903-1979)7 identifies the problems that arise for human free will with reference to its compatibility with Omniscience, Omnipotence, and Eter ...
... philosophical concept of Omniscience.6 He does not discuss the bearings of any concept of Omniscience for actions of human free will. Syed Abul A’la Moududi (1903-1979)7 identifies the problems that arise for human free will with reference to its compatibility with Omniscience, Omnipotence, and Eter ...
The Roots of Spinoza`s Metaphysics and
... expressed but who expresses in a manner that transcends will. Consistent with ultimacy, with ultimate power, God’s nature is to express all things in God’s intellect. And Spinoza adds that God must express all such things, for nothing else could be consistent with the principle of ultimacy, with the ...
... expressed but who expresses in a manner that transcends will. Consistent with ultimacy, with ultimate power, God’s nature is to express all things in God’s intellect. And Spinoza adds that God must express all such things, for nothing else could be consistent with the principle of ultimacy, with the ...
Creator Omnium - Saint Anselm College
... and is nothing other than the employment of the will and power given by God, insofar as it exists, is something good and proceeds from God.18 In order to reconcile libertarian freedom with the doctrine of God as creator omnium, then, it looks like one needs to show that our choices and acts can be c ...
... and is nothing other than the employment of the will and power given by God, insofar as it exists, is something good and proceeds from God.18 In order to reconcile libertarian freedom with the doctrine of God as creator omnium, then, it looks like one needs to show that our choices and acts can be c ...
PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION G581
... Mystics e.g. St John on the cross accept statements about God not accurate due to being greater than comprehension & ineffable. Rather than having no knowledge of God, negative statements can be made Language when applied to God is equivocal. By saying what God is not we can arrive in a limited ...
... Mystics e.g. St John on the cross accept statements about God not accurate due to being greater than comprehension & ineffable. Rather than having no knowledge of God, negative statements can be made Language when applied to God is equivocal. By saying what God is not we can arrive in a limited ...
Aquinas on Eternity, Tense, and Temporal Becoming
... argues that a timeless God could still have knowledge of temporal things if those temporal things only “exist in eternity as represented in the mind of God.”9 Hasker believes this position is endorsed by Aquinas, but it does not seem clear to me that it is. For example, Aquinas writes that “all thin ...
... argues that a timeless God could still have knowledge of temporal things if those temporal things only “exist in eternity as represented in the mind of God.”9 Hasker believes this position is endorsed by Aquinas, but it does not seem clear to me that it is. For example, Aquinas writes that “all thin ...
Meditations on First Philosophy in which are demonstrated the
... from being asleep. This discovery makes me feel dizzy, [joke:] which itself reinforces the notion that I may be asleep! Suppose then that I am dreaming—it isn’t true that I, with my eyes open, am moving my head and stretching out my hands. Suppose, indeed that I don’t even have hands or any body at ...
... from being asleep. This discovery makes me feel dizzy, [joke:] which itself reinforces the notion that I may be asleep! Suppose then that I am dreaming—it isn’t true that I, with my eyes open, am moving my head and stretching out my hands. Suppose, indeed that I don’t even have hands or any body at ...
God Must Be Evil - Sarah`s ePortfolio
... choosing between 2 morally right choices. The person still has free will and the ability to choose, but it is no longer a morally significant choice. Plantinga believes that people are fully free and morally responsible for their actions and conditions. (Beebe 2003, online) Plantinga is not arguing ...
... choosing between 2 morally right choices. The person still has free will and the ability to choose, but it is no longer a morally significant choice. Plantinga believes that people are fully free and morally responsible for their actions and conditions. (Beebe 2003, online) Plantinga is not arguing ...
Christian Apologetics, IV The Problem of Evil
... ensure, in any single case, that a human being freely refrain from sinning. • However, given that human beings are real creatures with a rational and fallible nature (and not merely puppets or robots), it would be deeply incongruous if they never sinned. • God wishes, in each case, that the creature ...
... ensure, in any single case, that a human being freely refrain from sinning. • However, given that human beings are real creatures with a rational and fallible nature (and not merely puppets or robots), it would be deeply incongruous if they never sinned. • God wishes, in each case, that the creature ...
File - A2 Philosophy of Religion
... God can see things in a different way from the way in which we see them because humans exists within time, God does not have the same time constraints we do. Because humans exist within time; our pasts have happened, a present that is gone in an instant and futures which are uncertain. This uncertai ...
... God can see things in a different way from the way in which we see them because humans exists within time, God does not have the same time constraints we do. Because humans exist within time; our pasts have happened, a present that is gone in an instant and futures which are uncertain. This uncertai ...
Objections Answered - Third Millennium Ministries
... live anyway. Therefore I will not eat.” Needless to say, if God has foreordained that a man shall live, He has also foreordained that he shall be kept from the suicidal folly of refusing to eat. “This doctrine,” says Hamilton, “is only superficially like the pagan ‘fate.’ The Christian is in the han ...
... live anyway. Therefore I will not eat.” Needless to say, if God has foreordained that a man shall live, He has also foreordained that he shall be kept from the suicidal folly of refusing to eat. “This doctrine,” says Hamilton, “is only superficially like the pagan ‘fate.’ The Christian is in the han ...
Hamlet Background Notes
... phenomenon was vital part of medieval society’s attempt to comprehend a very real danger. In an era with high mortality rates, mass death due to disease, and little knowledge of medicine and hygiene, death was an inescapable mystery. It is not surprising that the plague was considered to be a si ...
... phenomenon was vital part of medieval society’s attempt to comprehend a very real danger. In an era with high mortality rates, mass death due to disease, and little knowledge of medicine and hygiene, death was an inescapable mystery. It is not surprising that the plague was considered to be a si ...
O GRAVE, WHERE IS THY VICTORY?
... God had once said, but could say no longer, “It is good.” Lost in all the excitement of Paul’s language is the plain fact that until Christ came, God had endlessly promised imminent victory over human enemies rather than ultimate victory over Satan as the original merchant of death. The paired apost ...
... God had once said, but could say no longer, “It is good.” Lost in all the excitement of Paul’s language is the plain fact that until Christ came, God had endlessly promised imminent victory over human enemies rather than ultimate victory over Satan as the original merchant of death. The paired apost ...
Psalms 19:1-14 - Ebenezer Baptist Church
... declared in Romans 1:20 “For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.” We are confronted 24/7 with the fact that God exist. No one is excluded becau ...
... declared in Romans 1:20 “For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.” We are confronted 24/7 with the fact that God exist. No one is excluded becau ...
Pascal`s Wager
... Regarding the proposition “God exists” reason is neutral. It can neither prove nor disprove it. But we must make a choice on this matter, for not to choose for God is in effect to choose against him and lose the possible benefits that belief would bring. Since these benefits promise to be infinite a ...
... Regarding the proposition “God exists” reason is neutral. It can neither prove nor disprove it. But we must make a choice on this matter, for not to choose for God is in effect to choose against him and lose the possible benefits that belief would bring. Since these benefits promise to be infinite a ...
VOLTAIRE
... this is well, it is all the evident consequences of unalterable physical principles, I agree; and I knew it just as well as you did. If we were insentient beings, there would be nothing to say to this physics. But that’s not the question; we ask you if there are not sensible evils, and if there are, ...
... this is well, it is all the evident consequences of unalterable physical principles, I agree; and I knew it just as well as you did. If we were insentient beings, there would be nothing to say to this physics. But that’s not the question; we ask you if there are not sensible evils, and if there are, ...
Early Christian Reception of Classical Education
... and Maker of all, nor, having found Him, is it safe to declare Him to all. But these things our Christ did through His own power. For no one trusted in Socrates so as to die for this doctrine, but in Christ, who was partially known even by Socrates (for He was and is the Word who is in every man, an ...
... and Maker of all, nor, having found Him, is it safe to declare Him to all. But these things our Christ did through His own power. For no one trusted in Socrates so as to die for this doctrine, but in Christ, who was partially known even by Socrates (for He was and is the Word who is in every man, an ...