understanding the nature of God and whether God is real or not real is for the most part innate. I have dwindled it down to two types of people in my world, people who believe in God and who do not believe in God. Most of my childhood growing up, I believed in a creator of the world, but as I grew up and began to understand more about science as well as reasoning, I walked a fine line between what I was taught to believe and what I thought was real. My family began to drift away from God, as did I. Everything
Throughout my life I have been involved in a dynamic battle that always comes back to one question: Is there such thing as “God”? I have been raised up in a pretty much non practicing Christian home. To grow up in this type of lifestyle I have encountered a multitude of different belief systems that were either Secular or Christian-like. But with this debate of if God is real or not I have come across the issue of how to walk out my life with the time that I have. This paper will go through the debate
Who's To Say What's Real Many people often wonder what is real in their lives, especially whether the idea of heaven and God is real or not. Some think that what cannot be proved with facts is not real, where as others revolve their lives around the possibility of there being more after they pass on. Everyone has doubts in their religion, even preachers which is shown in the movie Heaven Is For Real. The movie seeks to explore if heaven truly is real after a small boy claims to have experienced
Aquinas and Descartes both have arguments for the existence of God, with some similarities and a multitude of differences. Descartes presents two major premises in his argument with his degrees of reality principle and his casual adequacy principle. It is possible for Descartes to be influenced by Aquinas, but the arguments for the same thing differ greatly that even if any inspiration Descartes could have pulled from Aquinas' work is minimal, to say the least. Comparing Aquinas and Descartes they
A table is not real, the idea of a table, a surface that holds objects or is used for support, is real. The only requirement in achieving ultimate reality is belief in and a surrender to one of these ideas. When referring to religion, the idea is a greater power and in the case of Christianity, the greater power is God. The distinction between whether something is more real or less real depends on one’s perception. One person may believe in the idea of Heaven and identify it as real while another
ontological proof of the existence of God. First, I will discuss what ontology is and how it connects to this proof about God. There are two kinds of proofs that are going to be talked about in this essay. The ontological proof was created by Anselm who made this argument that God does exist. To begin this discussion, ontology is a part of metaphysics and concerns itself with the nature of being. Ontology seeks to answer questions about existence, what’s real and what is not real. The ontological proof is set
fall under in every second of every moment we are doing anything. God, just like us comes under this category of being, as being comes not just from existence, but rather our essence. The next text comes from Elizabeth Johnson called “Speaking about the Living God,” which focuses on the name of God. God never tells us what God’s gender is; only that God is. So by assigning God a gender we limit the power that God has, by making God only male we limit the feminine side of God’s love as well as those
many symbols of the Eucharist, bread, wine, water, chalice There is a real presence of Christ in the form of bread and wine. In the Eucharist, Christ is present in the totality of His being. The Second Vatican Council proclaimed that the Eucharist “is the source and summit of the Christian life” “the source and summit of the Christian life” (Vatican II, Lumen Gentium, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, paragraph 11),The real presence of Christ in the Eucharist comes about through transubstantiation
pertinent topic. This essay will suggest the valid point of God answering the question “what is reality?” and what we can know of what exists and why. While answering this question, the point of knowledge and faith through God, how they are interconnected, in my opinion, will be noticed and said. Therefore, I suggest that we can know what is real through three interconnected lenses that are faith, the knowledge we obtain due to God and through in God. I believe that reality is the existence of everything
certain extent. I believe that a strong basis to belief is that God is the creator. God is the cause for everything that we have in the world today whether that is family, wildlife, nature, etc. It is because of Him why we have all of that. Without God our universe would have started from nothing and somehow end up the way it is now today. One could go on and say that it is evaluation or it just happens as time passes, but it is because of God we are here today. No one else would create the world the way