Metaphysics

Have you ever encountered something and said to yourself “Why me?” Or have you wondered “Why do so many people lose their lives to murders or accidents?” There is so much suffering in this world that we hear about, including rapes, war, genocide, or natural disasters. Every person has different disasters and oftentimes we cannot come up with a possible reason these happen to us. This thought has led some philosophers, such as William Rowe, to believe that God does not exist. Although there are some

Recently I met with a seminary student I have been meeting with for the past two years. Our normal room was taken and we ended up in one across the hall. After setting into his chair, the man looked around and said, “I am glad we are in this room today.” I wondered out loud, “Why?” He then explained it was the room we used when we first began to meet in 2014, and being in it reminded him of how much God had grown him since then.. We spent much of the hour remembering each semester and what changed

Du Chatelet argument for the existence of God is a cosmological argument: 1. Something exists. 2. Since something exists, something must have existed from eternity. 3. Either an infinite chain of (contingent) beings existed from all eternity or being that exists by its own volition. 4. Even an infinite chain of contingent beings might not have existed and therefore does not explain for the existence of the world. 5. Therefore, only a necessary being can explain the existence of the world. Du Chatalet

The question of whether or not there is a world outside of one’s own mind is a question that has been widely debated over time. This is such a controversial topic because there is no definite answer or explanation that can be proven to be completely accurate. An entire branch of philosophy has become committed to focusing on this topic alone. Epistemology is the study of questions regarding knowledge, how we can prove knowledge, and whether or not as humans we have any limit to the amount of knowledge

Determinism claims that all events are inevitable to have certain results at the end, since conditions are met and nothing else would occur. And it could apply to everything in the universe with causal laws. With the discovering laws, we could make predictions. Over the years, there are more than one determinism been developed over time. Hard determinism claims all the actions of human beings or consequences of events are determined by external conditions, with such conditions satisfied there will

III. Critique First of all, I appreciate Barbour’s praiseworthy and toilsome effort to put theology and science in a meaningful and fruitful dialogue, by seriously taking account of both continuities and discontinuities between scientific metaphors and religious metaphors. For Barbour, because both disciplines have continuities and discontinuities they can contribute to our more comprehensive understanding of the reality of our experiences in the world through their metaphorical relationship

Paul makes use of the concept of natural law in his works of the New Testament. In Paul makes use of the concept of natural law in his works of the New Testament. In Romans, the messages are written in such a way that they depict the idea of natural law, which can be attributed to God’s creation. This situation implies that natural law is directly linked to the laws that dictate the relationship between God and human beings as He created the world. These further shows that the laws are referred to

Christian theologians and leaders have considered the subject of animals in various ways. Mostly as things to be used by humans, no more, no less. According to some theologians animals were to be treated with esteem, but no more respected than the inanimate objects. Animals were viewed as tools and possessions, just like anything else you can buy. However the traditional Christian view has not always been the same. When early theologians considered "nature” they determined that it was a natural

Group Paper: Substance Abuse and Addiction Jamiela Geathers Limestone College (Extended Campus) Social Work Program Introduction. Tricounty Ministries is a non-profit organization that provide food, clothing, medical care, housing vouchers, counseling, and financial support, and other vital services to the homeless and the less fortunate. The ministries motto is “Helping those in crisis move to a place of stability and ultimately self-sustainability since 1983”.Their counseling service

When it comes to talking about the idea of “free will” there are a lot of factors involved. I think it’s difficult to just openly say yes or no to the question of “Do all humans have free will?”, because there are certain cases on each side where things aren 't so black and white. When first thinking about this question, I went back and forth on my answer. It was hard to pick a side. In the end though I came up with this idea. All humans are created as free beings, and they have the free will to