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Old Testament and Deliverance of People by God

Testament Law and the Ten Commandments express this relationship (Out of Egypt, 2003). One of the first examples of Gods...

God's Existence and the Teleological Method of David Hume

supporters of the argument from design see a babys perfect little fingers with unique fingerprints and the fact that the honey bee...

God's Existence and the Ontological Argument

is Anselms primary opponent in his argument regarding the existence of God. Kants separation between the analytic and the synthet...

Theist and Atheist Arguments on God's Existence

constant when the resultant external force acting on the system is zero" and if the system is the universe there are no external f...

Critical Analysis of the 4th Proof of St.Thomas Aquinas

various things as they approach in diverse ways toward something that is the greatest, just as in the case of hotter (more hot) wh...

'The Odyssey' by Homer and the Gods' Role

Goddess). She even enhances his physical appearance in order to assure he gets home. "Once Odysseus reaches the city that Nausi...

Third Meditation of Rene Descartes

cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...

God's Sovereignty in the Bible's Old and New Testaments

- the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end; there is no other Lord but Him, He is God over heaven and over earth and onl...

Thomas Frank's One Market Under God

dot.coms are in great part responsible for the changes. These young people shed the suits and adopted street-wise jargon, flauntin...

Canonization Process

Canonization (Canonization Information, 2002). This step is key because this is what often distinguishes a mere "accident" from a...

2 Interpretations of Gender in Islam

come from western society and not conform to the lifestyle of the Muslims there. Not wearing veils was seen as immoral (1969). If ...

David Hume and Thomas Aquinas on God's Existence

that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...

Existence of God Arguments

the universe and the cells of life on the planet, it was assumed that this enormous and highly intricate mechanism had a designer ...

Philosophical Concepts

of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...

God's Existence Belief

at the bottom of the ladder, and humanity at the top, by virtue of the faculty of reason (Augustine of Hippo, 2001). After carefu...

Concept of Divinity of God

that there is "within the human mind, and indeed by natural instinct, an awareness of divinity," that "God himself has implanted i...

Reviewing The Book of the Torah: The Narrative Integrity of the Pentateuch by Thomas Mann

are already well acquainted with the Torah, his book provides an excellent introduction for those that are only somewhat familiar ...

How Rene Descartes Used Principles, Definitions, and Deductive Reasoning to Argue that God Exists

idea that nothing comes from nothing. Reality in itself must come from a cause that is at least equal if not more so than its effe...

God's Existence Arguments

speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...

Changing Times and Unchanging Philosophical Themes

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

Plato, Homer, and Gods

(Garrett(1)). In addition these gods possess many human traits such as jealousy and envy. As Garrett(1) states, "These gods, mo...

God's Existence Cosmological Argument

be a less sure guide than revelation; however, Aquinas did believe it possible to reach certain truths without the aid of revelati...

Hebrew History and Yahweh

This will be my name forever; it has always been my name, and it will be used throughout all generations" (Exodus 3:15). "God rep...

Philosophy Q and A

While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...

David Hume

controversial writings on religion and morality (Hume, 2002). In fact, he continued to turn out essays and critical writings on ev...

How to Prove That Love Exists

In five pages this paper tries to prove love exists by using Thomas Aquinas' 5 proofs of God's existence. One source is cited in ...

Influence of the South in the Writings of Erskine Caldwell

In five pages this paper examines how the South influences Erskine Caldwell's writings in such works as God's Little Acre and Toba...

Thomas Aquinas' Arguments and the Lack of Proof

In five pages this paper examines Aquinas' 5 arguments on God's existence and exposes the errors in his 2nd argument. Three sourc...

Third Meditation of Rene Descartes

image, a form, or a judgement, and concludes that an image or what individuals perceive as form can never be false. However, erro...

God's Existence and the Perspectives of David Hume, William Paley, Rene Descartes, and Augustine of Hippo

In six pages this research paper contrasts and compares these men's philosophical perspectives on God's existence. Four sources a...