... in it, how could he even create evil or choose to include it in this world? Moreover, why would he need evil at all if he is powerful enough to eliminate it altogether, and smart enough to know exactly how he ought to do so? In the Bible, 1 Peter 3:18 states, "For ... the evil arises from the suffering and death that they cause. Van Inwagen then goes on to further address a question concerning the magnitude of evil: "Why doesn't God protect His creatures from the worst effects of their separation from Him? Van Inwagen replies by claiming that protecting us from the worse effects would ....

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... Suffering? The question many ask in the midst of adversity is, "If God is loving, why is there suffering?" This question is not an easy one to answer. Christianity does not exempt one from pain, from disappointment, or from the ... tests one's faith to keep them on the right path. James 1:2-4 says, "Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything." Experiencing these trials, the individual ... an...

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... :- 10.million,million,million,million, stars. 10.000,000.000,000.000,000.000,000.Stars. And that's not the end only how much we know, according the Jet Propulsion laboratory in America. However many there really are, the bible tells us, He knows the number of the stars, "and wait ... of material, which through some action or other exploded causing material to fly of into space, and eventually form perfect globes of controlled nuclear reaction we know today as suns (or stars). Our first question must be what caused such an explosion, was it some form of natural occurring splitting of the ...

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... how this mechanism works. Russell's approach to argue the Design law by Darwin theory is fallacious as Darwin's theory itself fails to explain why this mechanism is there and give no insights on how this mechanism works. Moreover, one can always argue that the process of evolution in ... definitions of right and wrong are necessarily similitudes to the absolutes. The absolute concepts are far removed from human ideas. After this insubstantial beginning on why he believes God doesn't exist, Russell turns his attention to Christ and his second standard of Christianity, Jesus' divinity and...

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... traditions, it is not however entirely unambiguous. It is not a matter of law or ritual, and Judaism usually allows some freedom on metaphysical matters. It is therefore hard to see why denying that the soul is immortal would be the element of Spinoza's philosophy that attracted so much animosity. It is also not clear that Spinoza ever denies that the soul ... , the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; and claims that the Law was neither literally given by God nor any longer binding on Jews. There is no mystery as to why one of history's boldest and most radical thinkers was outlawed by an o...

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28/04/2004 Why is the Devil sometimes thought to be the hero in The Master and Margarita? In order to compose an answer to this, it is important to try to fully understand what a hero is, both in definition, and the modern use of the word. Indeed, even personal opinions can warp its meaning...

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Why is the Devil sometimes thought to be the hero in The Master and Margarita? In order to compose an answer to this, it is important to try to fully understand what a hero is, both in definition, and the modern use of the word. Indeed, even personal opinions can warp its meaning and cloud t...

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... ) In the Bible, God killed everyone on the planet with a Great Flood because he decided to start over and rise up another nation. Didn't he know from the very beginning that humanity including children and women would be so evil that they would have to be drowned? In Gensis 6:6, 7, it said " ... means that God will only do things that are good. Not everything in this world is good. Because there's a thing called 'evil' in this world. Why is there evil? Cause God himself created it. In Isaiah 45:7, it said, "I make peace and create evil. I the Lord do all these things." ... de...

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... we didn't have these commandments to follow where would we be as human beings? Having a deeper connection to God is being good, since God is good. I know that since according to Aristotle happiness is the key to fulfilling a good life, and Epicurus pleasure is the key, then according to God in order to get into ... with cancer who believes in God and believes that there is a place after death, once you know that there is an end coming you are more likely to be prepared to go without any hesitation or question as to why it's your time or if God is spiting you for something that you did wr...

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... . Even the argument that evil was created by The Morning Star through a perversion of God's gift still backs my statement. Since God is all knowing and omnipotent, he would know that Satan was going to create evil with his actions and he would have the power to stop that from happening. Again some would say that it was his love ... . Man had no knowledge of evil until God told us of it. Even in the Garden man didn't know evil. He did not know that eating from the one tree in the center of Eden was evil until God told him. So why would God put the tree there in the first place if he didn't...

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... it brings faith to the homeless man?" This faith brings with the lack of desire to make his situation any better. Why struggle to advance in this unimportant, temporal world, if he is to know unlimited happiness in Heaven? " To ordinary human beings, finally- the vast majority who exist for service and the general advantage ... the piety in an illusory higher order of things and thus to maintain their contentment with the order" (Cowan 74). I think it is sad to know that the masses are able to worship the same God that will not show himself on Earth, but permits and in fact encourages th...

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... Won? My first thought was that Satan had won the wager, by Job questioning God. Which he does question God but all he wanted to know was the answer to the question. Job wanted to know why he was put into the circumstances that he was in when he knew he had done nothing wrong. He knew that he was a righteous man ... and by him knowing that he did not understand why he was put into those circumstances, so he wanted an answer from God. Now you ... God and Job says no. He then told his wife that you need to take the good and the bad that God gives you. All Job wanted to know was why was th...

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... seen some of you in a couple of years. How would you help answer the question, "How do we know there's a God?" Discussion Spiritual Awareness/Awareness of God Let's start by asking this question: Why are humans aware of God? When you look at every culture throughout history, what is their one common denominator ... . Bingo. Perfection I mentioned "perfection" earlier. Does anyone know any perfect people? No? Will any of us ever become perfect? No?. Then why are we aware of something that is impossible for us? Worse, why does everyone want to achieve something we know to be impossible? No ...

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... he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?' (Goodreads, 2011) These evils can be broken down into moral evils, natural evils, freak accidents and of course death and the suffering surrounding ... of cancer in their family, this could be interpreted as a direct act of God or even the act of the devil, yet why doesn't God spare the child's life? Why does he let them suffer? The most significant issue with the freewill defense lies with the very idea of freewill itself. As Robe...

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... we get on our television sets) that tells him not to bother listening because it isn't sincere. So I think prayer ultimately breaks down to this, why should God to take to heart a prayer that isn't from our heart in the first place? Prayer is often taken lightly, but I really think prayer ... hear people talking about how God spoke to them and gave them instructions or holy inspiration or some sort of divine message. As for me I've got nothing. Why is that? What makes them good enough to hear God's voice and not me? But what if I am hearing God's voice but it isn't what I ... way I"m m...

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... moving parts and seem to serve a purpose offers feeble support, particularly in structuring a prima facie case for the existence of God. David Hume adequately states why this is the circumstance when he said, "From watching a hair grow, can we infer how people grow?" Mr. Paley and other Teleology theist would ... of God's goodness if we have never experienced goodness. Looking into the flaws of these two arguments we can see why the Cosmology argument is so enticing. The belief, or better put, the question concerning the existence of God and the creation of the universe is ... "why?" Wh...

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... was not baptized in the holy water of the moon, but in the salt water of the sea!" (112) While his parents continue their altercation, Tony pleads and pleads to know the answer to which side of the family he is destined to succeed. As his pain grows, Ultima without warning ceased the raging powers of the heavens and the powers ... take on one filled with pain, sorrow, and tragedy. He witnessed the death of many people in his young life. " "You are innocent when you do not know", my mother cried, "but already you know too much about the flesh and blood of the Marez men." "You are innocen...

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... there is a God, would he allow such evil to prevail? We believe that more than likely there is a God yet evil still exists. The question is why. Faith is the foundation upon which a belief in God is built. There is no definite scientific evidence concluding that there is in fact a God. That ... it can". To some it is not fathomable to surmise that a benevolent God could look down upon His people and allow such evil to exist. Why would a God with supreme power not do something about my grandmother and my grandfathers and my uncle dying? There are always unanswered questions and it ... as...

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... holiness as loving God with all our hearts, with all our souls, with all our minds and strength. For we know that He is devoted to doing the same. Could that possibly be the reason why many people defines holiness as just loving God. Is that what we have been taught? In John 21: 15-17 ... , Simon Peter is being questioned about his love for Jesus. When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon son of John, do you love me more than these? He said to Him, "Yes, Lord; you know ... , do you love me?" Peter felt hurt because He said to him the third times, "Do you love me?...

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... was referring to: "one when we mean that someone has done evil; the other when we mean that someone has suffered evil."" Evodius responds, "I want to know about both kinds."" (1) Augustine affirms that if one believes in God, then one must believe that he does not do evil ""the first kind of evil."" ... of humans choosing evil, but the evil would be the responsibility of human beings because they would be the ones who choose to do evil. So why didn't God create free beings that always choose what is morally right? Although this question does seem illogical because it is impossible to be...

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... our diet. For 12 long years, not one single doctor could offer a sound reason or solution for her eczema problem! We sadly found out that, unfortunately most doctors know nothing about the health message and therefore can offer no solutions. They have no idea, that that what you eat has a lot to do with creating or curing health ... eat the blood of an animal, as it is the life-force of that animal. Leviticus 17:14 Because the life of every creature is its blood. That is why I have said to the Israelites, "You must not eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is i...

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... there so he gives you the choice to do good for yourself and other to make his work load smaller. God will try to give you signs to let you know that you have been chosen to go into heaven. If you are going to hell you might get a sign telling you. If a person going into heaven does ... something wrong, he or she will immediately be sent to hell to burn and be torture for eternity and the life to come. People all over the world know about this and can't do anything to change this because they have been marked to go to hell. Crying will only make things worse for you when you ... are suf...

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... now people were starting to question whether this in fact happened, so Paul asserted the truth with his writings. Paul then goes on to explain why Jesus resurrected and why it is so important that he did so. Without Jesus resurrecting, it would have meant that everything Jesus preached and everything the apostles believed would ... " (48-49). While people believe that when they die they will leave their human form behind, but this is not the case. This is why Jesus' resurrection was so important because not only was his spirit sent up in to heaven, but by his body being missing from the t...

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... but are ignorant of its nature, because it has extension like us. But we know neither the existence nor nature of God, because he has neither extension nor limits." (52) It was the perfect deal. This is why religion at certain points in time was the highest form of government. The religious ... We are constantly faced with moral dilemmas in which right and wrong become transparent. If there is an afterlife where judgment plays a role in your eternal fate, why are right and wrong such flawed concepts? Leibniz, a famous philosopher said, "Whoever makes things in which there is evil, or the...

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... ignorant or untrusting of science. Pascal muses, "We must keep silence as far as we can and only talk to ourselves about God, whom we know to be true, and thus convince ourselves that he is" (Pascal 26). Man is afraid of the unknown and must use his knowledge of morality ... unless deflected by the conscious mind. Pascal visits this idea in saying that, concerning instinct, "But nature has refused us this blessing [that we know only through instinct], and has instead given us only very little knowledge of this kind; all other knowledge can be acquired only by reasoning" (Pascal ... in t...

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