Does God Exist Essay

Immaculee shares the power of faith in God as she describes the physical, mental, and specifically spiritual obstacles she faced in the 1993 Rwandan genocide. Rwanda consists of three tribes, the rare pygmy Twas, the minority Tutsis, and the majority Hutus. Hutu extremists turned on their Tutsi neighbors after the country’s president Habyarimana’s plane was shot down. After 100 days of slaughter, the death toll climbed to 800,000. Instead of turning her back on God and blaming Him for allowing…

A mong the progression of gods and goddesses, various ones emerge into history with an overshadowing impact, melting Satan’s evil presence into a variety of names and forms. In antiquity, along with Pan, the god Baal steadily advances and becomes one of Satan’s foremost prized advocates; appearing to make their worship indispensable. Baal worship became profuse throughout the ancient Middle East. Prevalently, Baal often acquired other god’s identity, such as the horned Molech, well-known for…

the cross, and judgment from God for our sins. One argument that Christians use for the proof of God’s existence is the Argument from Design. The Argument from Design states that if something exists that is designed then it has a designer. Christians also believe in Trinitarian Theism which is the belief in one God who exists as three separate persons – Father, Son, and Spirit (Noebel D. A.,…

existence of God. That question is, ‘if God is good and made us in His likeness, then why is there evil in the world?’ This question has plagued both theist and philosophers alike. I personally have encountered this very question in both Religious Quest, as well as Philosophy. While the latter concentrates on the logical problem of evil in order to argue that there can not be a perfect God who could then allow evil, the theist believes in an omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent God. I…

function. From a personal perspective, it’s known that throughout hard times, there always seems to be something good to come out of it as a result. Society won’t accept evilness to nest in it, good wins. In the midst of human morality, good and evil exist, but good will commonly prevail. Present in the world, is a distinct coexistence of good and evil. From experience, it is known that in many cases, people want to do the right thing, but choose not to because of society’s etiquettes. Just…

One can easily compare and contrast the idea of “faith” and the idea of “belief” by simply looking their definitions up in a dictionary. I will explain the two concepts, however, because some people – for whatever reason – question the importance of dictionaries and their place in an intellectual environment. First and foremost, all faiths qualify as beliefs, but not all beliefs are faith. If this is confusing, it follows the same logic behind the following statement: “all boys are people, but…

begins reflecting on the three main certainties that he has developed so far: 1) that God exists, 2) that God is not a deceiver, and 3) that God created him and is therefore responsible for all his faculties, including his faculty of judgment. Descartes seems satisfied with the first two convictions, however, he begins to explore the conflict that arises with the third; that, “if everything that is in me comes from God, and he did not endow me with a faculty for making mistakes, it appears that…

Just because God knows the future doesn’t mean He is up there pulling strings like a puppeteer. When I drop a piece of food on the ground, I know my dog is going to eat it, but that doesn’t mean I forced my dog to eat it. If you have seen the recent Sherlock Holmes movies (with Robert Downey Jr.) you can get a visual of what knowing the future without causing it might look like. Sherlock Holmes is very logical so he foresees immediate events (like the fight scenes) before they actually happen.…

children to gods like Molech and also offer offerings to other gods, then one must ask what could be the distinction between religion as the individual activity/ritual and the religious faith? Since the matter of fact will remain that whether it was that the Israelites or the Aryans and Dravidians of the subcontinent, worshipped and feared gods they had never seen, yet their trust and faith lay in those gods that they shaped with their own hands, the carved images of gods, their faith in these…

I believe that there are really only two religions at the end of the day – the religion of self, and the religion of God. Most religions in the world are centered on the selfishness of the individual; I want to be better, I want to be great, I want to make sure that no one is more deserving of heaven than I, etcetera. However, the remaining “religion of God” is about glorifying God, which is hard to do if one is trying to give all the glory to himself. My goal with this essay is simply to answer…