Essays 211 - 240
Arguments for the Existence of God Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is known as one of the most influential Western philosophers today....
Testament Law and the Ten Commandments express this relationship (Out of Egypt, 2003). One of the first examples of Gods...
supporters of the argument from design see a babys perfect little fingers with unique fingerprints and the fact that the honey bee...
she would give him a whipping with a belt. These beatings only reinforced Willies belief that the best way to settle problem situa...
his book, Does God Exist God: The Oldest Question, that yes, God does exist 2000). OMalley seems to be addressing his comments to ...
of the world (1993). Yet, one can see this in action in smaller ways. Another way to look at the world is through the model called...
the universe reveals that the natural world provides a graduated scale of existence, from lower beings to those that are higher or...
One of the questions that has plagued theologians, Biblical scholars, philosophers and others has to do with God and evil. How can...
The Book of Jeremiah is the longest book in the Bible containing more words than any other book. The greatest majority of the Book...
This 5 page paper gives an overview of the Greek god Apollo. This paper includes what areas of life Apollo ruled over and how he w...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at Gaiman's "American Gods". The dichotomy between old and new gods in the text is show...
This essay responds to several issues concerning King David. What was the Davidic covenant. Since David sinned, why is he consider...
The Holy Trinity is one of Christianity’s most esoteric mysteries. It is confounding, at best. There is one God but three distinct...
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...
reflecting the image of Christ? An examination of scripture reveals that these two ideas are not contradictory. Rather, the idea o...
evil, was literally personified in the body of evil curses, evil spirits and superstitions. Now, of course, for the most part peop...
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...
under the dominion of God. However, nothing in scripture -- or history for that matter -- suggests that human beings are similar...
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;...
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...
experiences were possible (Gogan, 2006). This author indicates this in the following: "Kant gets rid of the usual foundation for r...
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...
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 eight pages four questions on these topics are asked and answered. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....
just as many parents find they have to resort to what has come to be known as "tough love," God of the Hebrew scriptures certainly...
In 6 pages this paper examines the 19th century Chinese rebel peasant Hong Xiuquan who contended he was Jesus Christ's brother as ...
In 5 pages this poem featuring nature is analyzed in terms of how it represents the poet's Catholicism. There are 5 sources cited...