The Existence Of God In The Brothers Karamazov

In the article “The God Who Embraced Me,” John Fountain tells us his story of believing in, “The God who embraced me when Daddy disappeared from our lives - from my life at the age of four.” Growing up, John was vulnerable and lacked the presence of a father other boys had. He writes, “I always envied boys I saw walking hand-in-hand with their fathers.” Throughout his childhood, John wished to have conversations that fathers and sons have among many other things. He spent days imagining his father coming home from work, but obviously it never happened. The God John believed in, held his hand when he witnessed other boys struggling and being drowned in hopelessness. His God was always by his side, and made him feel like he was something when

in this world, and they are effects derived from a cause. The effects in turn

Truth, what is truth? This question itself has a thousand answers, no person can ever be sure of what truth is rather, truth can be justified, it can checked for reliability with strong evidences and logic. If the evidence proves to be accurate then it can be established that a certain answer is the truth. However, have we ever tried to think about what intrigues us to seek the truth? To think about a question and set foot firmly on the path of knowledge. Definitely it has! That was the very cause itself which is why this world has witnessed some of the greatest philosophers like Aristotle, Plato and Socrates etc. along with the school of thought. The ability to think and reason is one of the greatest ability humans have, it is what

In the documentary “Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero,” a number of people were interviewed about how their religious beliefs or non beliefs, were challenged since the events of September 11th. The interviews with priests, rabbis, family members of victims, survivors, lay people, atheists and agnostics, this documentary explores how Americans’ spiritual lives may have changed since the event. When a tragic event happens, people would either grow closer to god or outgrow god. To those people who do not believe in a god, these actions will just prove their beliefs. In the beginning of the film, people immediately started to question God. Some of them started to question why would a god so mighty approve this kind of actions. Dr. Michael Brescia, who is a physician who saw pictures of people jumping off the building, "I wonder how many of them thought if there was a God. And if there was a God, why me? Why this? And where am I going to go?” This kind of questions always come up when something catastrophic happens. Others, however, did not ask any questions and just accepted what has happened. Kim Coleman, who lost her daughter said, “God knows something I don’t, God knows best and knows better than we do.” There were also a couple of people who were not so sure what to think of god anymore. Rev. Joseph Griesedieck, a priest who volunteered at Ground Zero said, “the face of God was a blank slate for me. God couldn't be counted on in the way that I thought God could be

It is psychologically natural for humans to question faith and spirituality after experiencing tragedy and loss. People may doubt or even reject their faith with God whom is depicted in scripture as a source of peace and security in our lives. In Elie Wiesel’s Dawn, Elisha faces a similar spiritual contradiction after barely surviving the holocaust. After all of his family and friends are murdered by the egregious acts of the Nazi’s, Elisha seems to immediately question the logic behind his faith in Judaism and God. Stemming from his upbringing as an Orthodox Jew, his faith does not merely go away, rather, his understanding of God is reinterpreted into a more extreme outlook that acts as his catalyst for change as he

Amazed and frighten and in need of help, wondering if he is there or not. In need of faith but not sure if he should believe or not. If believing in him will save him or not. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie begins to lose his faith in God. he began to realize and understand that God can’t answer every prayer.

A main factor to the loss of Elie’s faith is the absence of God. Many times in the memoir, Elie is

How can I believe, how can anyone believe in this God of Mercy?’” (77). This shows a loss of faith because, Akiba asks Elie how anyone could believe in God when millions of people were dying,

Eliezer Wiesel finally arrived at Auschwitz when he was about fifteen. He soon finds out that the concentration camp is not what he thought it was which made him question his faith in God. “I did not deny God's existence, but I doubted his absolute Justice” (Wiesel 42). The reason he says this is because of all these innocent people getting beaten and starved. Eliezer realizes that God isn't acting to stop this disaster. “I no longer accepted God's silence” (Wiesel 66). Eliezer wants God to act upon this but he isn't doing as Elieser wishes so Eliezer guilts God, the “Lord of the Universe” for acting as if he wasn’t there. “The Eternal, Lord of the Universe, the All-powerful and Terrible, was silent. What had I to thank him for?” (Wiesel 31). Eliezer has started to question, what is he there for if he is doing

In the Brothers Karamazov written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, books 6 and 7 provided additional details on the characters Zosima and Alyosha. More specifically, the books provide insights on how similar the two characters are to one another in terms of their personal lives and paths to spiritual awakening.

In the book “night” Elies faith and his relationship with God change while he is in the concentration camp, because he finds out that he wasn’t going to leave anytime soon, so he starts losing his faith in humanity, and he questions wether he should continue believing in his god. Elies crisis of faith is shared with other prisoners as well.

God is not only there-an actually existent being; he is personal and we can relate to him in a personal way” (Alin, 2015).

“Would God listen? Would he hear?” (Anaya 23) The faith he had in God slowly left his heart

In his article “Men Have Forgotten God,” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn writes about how after several events in world history, corruption is rampant and conscious is dissipated. Using atheism as a base reason, he explains how the Russian Revolution, the French Revolution, and World War Two became bases for forms of hatred. He also mentions that people everywhere have become hardened to the things of this world, and the results of the hatred formed on atheism. In contrast, he mentions the fact that in Russia, a “pious way of life” was sought, and a true Christian church was the norm of the country. Atheism, in his mind, was a poison that has seeped through the world, slowly changing the very fabric that people’s foundations are based upon. In order to understand Solzhenitsyn’s thinking, mankind must understand atheism and all of its effects on the people surrounded by it.

Alyosha, after some soul struggling, lives this out in the way in which he cares for Koyla in the end. He shows him that doctrine of love. Through following Zosima’s philosophy of continual love, he slowly turns Koyla away from his atheism and shows him the joy of Christianity. Through love, Alyosha refutes Ivan’s philosophy that free will is too much to bear and instead shows the good free will does. It allows someone to choose the good. The good is a joy instead of a prison.