Essays 181 - 210
a cause. The best solution for the primal cause of the universe is God; therefore, God exists. However, this brings up the questio...
God first made covenants with individuals - Adam, Noah, Moses, Abraham, David, then with a nation - the Israelites, and then, with...
cross? Or, do you accept and live by Christs Gospel and gain eternal joy through Him. Paul continues: "For it is written: "I will...
God wills at any particular moment." To this proposition, Nielsen poses three questions: 1. Is being willed by God the, or even a,...
is not particularly concerned with explaining the universe, but rather offers the argument to how that God exists. "You ask me, wh...
the meditations is not to prove what they establish, but rather to show how the world of physics could be mapped reliably and inde...
made in the image of God this could and should lead to a possession of "positive attitudes of respect, value and consideration for...
his faith (Barclay 65). The covenant with Abraham was dependent on two things: "the free grace of God and the perfect faith of Abr...
however, a rich oral tradition. Many who study this oral tradition, unfortunately, tend to lump all of these cultures stories und...
God, and that it is not something that is external or intrinsic to man. In other words, morality does not come from a force outsid...
proving background and an exegetical discussion. Commentaries and other authorities are referenced in this paper. Historical Con...
broke the argument down in a much easier argument (Palmer, 2002). Descartes began with the premise that God is the only being who ...
was very connected to a slave culture yet also grew up in a land that was supposedly more free in relationship to the African Amer...
experiences were possible (Gogan, 2006). This author indicates this in the following: "Kant gets rid of the usual foundation for r...
a variety of stories in a variety of ways. First, Dionysus is a contradictory god. He does things that might surprise people bec...
from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...
in this instance French Dakar-Niger railroad owners (toubabs) versus impoverished workers in pre-Independence era Senegal who soug...
than a man can do the same for God, if there is a God. In essence, if God exists then God is a being that is capable of creating a...
In six pages this paper examines St. Thomas Aquinas' 'proof' that God exists. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....
In eight pages each biblical book is analyzed in terms of the personal messages from God contained within within the context of Ho...
In five pages this paper discusses how ASEAN might be able to resolve the tense situation and problems caused by this guerrilla gr...
obstacles, the people maintain their stalwart conviction to ultimately seek out a better existence. Kanes Ambiguous Adventu...
conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...
Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...
under the dominion of God. However, nothing in scripture -- or history for that matter -- suggests that human beings are similar...
believed deeply in the value of ethics as it related to humans in the natural world. His concept of forming an adequate ethical c...
that he be deceived since God is supremely good. Nevertheless, it does appear to Descartes that there is a good possibility that G...
is a rather immense task that philosophers have been dealing with for quite some time. The fact that no one can know the answer f...
evil, was literally personified in the body of evil curses, evil spirits and superstitions. Now, of course, for the most part peop...
scholars. In Matthew 25, Jesus says that when the hungry are fed and the blind can see and the naked are clothed, that will signif...