Act of God

Period 2 World literature Mr. Neely Ram’s Morality Many people struggle or debate over the topic of morality, and many people are mistaken as to who really judges what is moral or immoral. The only person who can decide whether an act is morally right or wrong is God. Within Slumdog Millionaire, there are many actions and ideas that can be considered morally good or morally bad according to the Christian views of morality. Ram Muhammad Thomas is debated over when it comes to the topic of Christian

for God to act in the world for a specific end, it must be that he is trying to bring about something which he lacks in himself. This is because God created all things for himself and on his own behalf, for to act on behalf of anything else would be impossible since nothing else existed at the time of creation by definition. As such God must have lacked these things and have desire them. It then follows that he no longer has all perfections. Instead, Spinoza wants to maintain that nature acts of its

believe act-utilitarianism is the strongest ethical theory presented in class. Act-utilitarianism is when, according to Russ Shafer-Landau, “acts are right just because they maximize the overall amount of well-being in the world”. On the other hand, actions are wrong if they do not maximize the overall amount of well-being in the world. Because the main concept of utilitarianism is to improve the overall well-being, that concept determines which actions are considered right or wrong. Act-utilitarianism

The gods often disagreed in many old stories, so if one god held an act to be dear it was possible another would hate it. This would make an act pious and impious, which is a contradiction. After his above point was refuted, Euthyphro modified his point to read that holiness is what all the gods love and the opposite was hated by all of them (Plato & Jowett). This definition is a bit harder to refute, but it definitely falls short of giving a clear standard from which to judge all acts. This

Discuss Luke’s portrayal of Jesus in Luke and Acts Luke and Acts tells the story of what Jesus did and taught during his ministry, first in his earthly life and then as the exalted Christ and Lord through his disciples. This essay will outline the various titles Luke used to portray or described Jesus in his two-volume narrative, in doing this we hope to get a better understanding and a complete picture of who Jesus was. Luke in his two volume work described Jesus in numerous ways and I am only

can an omnibenevolent God exist in a world full of evil? Now, the philosopher was not talking about the Abrahamic God, he was focused more on the gods of his culture in Greece. So in order to use the words of Epicurus as an argument against the views of God held by modern day Christians, we must make some assumptions. Epicurus’ argument takes a logical and deductive analytical route with the existence of evil. This argument is not capable of being used to debate whether any God exists in general, instead

is morally good or right because it is commanded by God and something is morally bad or wrong if God forbids it

to only talk about what the gods agree on because in their stories the gods would fight. One of the stories mentioned is about Zeus imprisoning his father. His father, Cronus, would eat his children, and Zeus thought this act was wrong, so he punished his father for it. This shows that there was not the belief that gods were always good and sometimes the gods could act impious and need to be punished by other gods for it. Euthyphro may have not considered a god or gods that are omnibenevolent. In

Euthyphro Philosophy A Concise Introduction – PHI 208 Euthyphro If everyone took the time to discuss holiness / piety (reverence for God), there would always be many different interpretations or perceptions on what it really is and just how to determine that it is being done. The best philosophers in the world have engaged in many conversations about this subject for decades. Socrates has been one of many that discussed this subject. Socrates was a man that was accused of impiety and

In this relationship there is no connection, all acts of piety would be purely pious with no justice, and just acts would not be pious. this relationship cannot be true because actions such as, charity and caring for the gods creation, are both pious and just and. This relationship would not allow for such action. The second possible relationship then would be, all just actions are pious and all pious acts are just. This association fails to allow any action to be purely just