... , Anselm does not say that we should stop understanding God even if man will never have an exact definition of God. He justifies that man at some point has the capacity of having the knowledge of the unseen Supreme Being. Clement of Alexandria finds faith as the foundation of all knowledge. He thus refers to the Letter to the Hebrews: "By faith we understand that ... in distinguishing a thing from being true or false. Sometimes the human mind couldn't contain the entirety of this phenomenon. Clement, with the help of the given truths from the Sacred Scripture and with the aid of reasonin...

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... who come from different theological perspectives, use different approaches to counseling, and have different levels of training and experience" (p. 21). While this is an excellent definition of the Christian counselor - and one each of us should aspire to - I don't believe it is a definition of Christian counseling. Trying to define Christian counseling is like trying to define Christian dentistry or ... individual who performs the activities that determine the Christian-ness or non-Christian-ness of the action. Thus, while Collins has provided a very good definition of the Christian co...

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... minds, then it would be less perfect than if it actually existed. So it would not be as great as a being who actually existed, something that would therefore contradict our definition of God; a being who's supposed to be all-perfect. Thus, God must exist. A second reading suggested that there had to have been something to cause the universe to exist. In what ... a God (who is unchanging himself) who in the very beginning created the world, as well as mankind. I like the way one philosopher today puts it. According to Peter Kreeft, a professor of philosophy at Boston College, he states o...

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Final Examination 1. Heraclitus makes the statement that "you can't step into the same river twice." This comes from the idea that the river is flowing and ever changing. With its constant flow, by the time you put your foot in take it out and put it back in again, the water you first touched will already be traveling down the river. For Heraclitus, reality is just like this changing flowing river. In reality, things are always changing and time flies by with the blink of an eye. Time does not stop, it is a constant flow of life and once it is gone we cannot get that moment back. No matter ...

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... articulation within his dialogues conveying theories. Some accredit Plato with the invention of philosophy, while A. N. Whitehead concluded, 'The safest general characterisation of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.'2 Here arises the discussion into how extensive this influence has been on religious philosophy. During the time of Plato in Ancient Greece, religion was irrationally theorised to account for acts ... contest the Divine command theory and question whether there are any spiritual intentions of a creator at all. The...

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... used to describe sin somehow has "reference either to failure to come up to the standard of divine law or to breaking divine law." It would probably be worthy to note that Culver's rejection of 1 John 3:4 as a definition of sin probably stems from his own presupposition of what sin actually is. He understands that 1 John 3:4 defines sin only to what the Decalogue prescribes ... "in whom all have sinned," thus he would argue that Romans and specifically 5:12 taught that all born off of Adam's race "inherit his guilt and corruption" (Rapinchuck 428, Olsen 272). An Augustine who used Greek...

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... and perception are fundamentally different. In place of Plato's doctrine of Ideas with a separate and eternal existence of their own, Aristotle proposed a group of universals that represent the common properties of any group of real objects. The universals, unlike Plato's Ideas, have no existence outside of the objects they represent. Closer to Plato's thought was Aristotle's definition of form as a distinguishing property of objects, but with an independent existence apart ... a fifth element that exists everywhere and is the sole constituent of the heavenly bodies "above" the moon. In...

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... that governed daily life and popular devotional practices that consumed religious energies. My argument is that none of these learned men influenced medieval theology and religion more than Saint Augustine. What Plato and Aristotle were to medieval philosophy, Augustine was to medieval theology. The fundamentals of western religious thinking about sin and grace, predestination, the church, political power and the state shaped ... (in both political and intellectual dimensions), the later Middle Ages must be seen as a period of unprecedented challenge. Early Middle Ages were times of exp...

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... ? Has the Design Argument been forever altered by Hume? Can it render service in post-Hume discussions? These are the questions we should confront. David Hume's philosophy of religion is fatal to the natural revelation of Deism. His arguments the camp of unbelief have appropriated. It is an argument against any inductive proof for God's existence. What Hume seeks to show is the failure ... 's purpose is to vitiate the Argument from Design more completely, and to this end he skillfully balances his words among the protagonists; to let the currency of his argument fall upon the shoulders of...

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