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Who Is Rowan Williams Argument For The Existence Of God?

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In Rowan Williams’s Tokens of Trust chapter two, called the Risk of Love, he argues for the existence of God. Many atheists argue against the existence of God by saying that there is no need to make sense of the whole of the world because the individual pieces make sense in and of themselves. Williams counteracts that by saying “we are trying to get our minds around the idea of an activity that is so utterly consistent with itself ...that is….so to speak it’s own ‘cause’, eternal, unchanging…(34). In other words, Williams is saying that God is eternal and unchanging, the deity was not created. A common belief among non-Christians is that God created the world and then simply let it take it’s course, with God watching from the heavens. Williams counters this by explaining that, like a lightbulb, there is a constant electrical current that brings …show more content…

Creation has it’s own freedom, which often results in pain. We experience pain more than anything else in this world because creation is risky and very winding, but this is a testament to God’s ability to create a world that can grow through mistakes. And in creation, there are the miraculous things that scientists haven’t explained yet, like the beautiful shape of snowflakes, or the wonder of a tornado, or better yet, the miracles of Jesus Christ. Williams suggest that the miraculous are founded in “a robust idea of action burning intensely in every moment of the world’s existence always just around the corner of our perception.” (48) God’s miracles are just around the corner essentially, because sometimes he comes so close to us that his supernatural elements show forth. He often uses other instruments to show us his miracles, such as messengers like his angels or his faithful servants, like the prophets, thousands of years ago. This is called

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