Essays on Existence of God

Conclusion The existence of God has been a big subject in philosophy and efforts to prove or disprove his existence have been taking place since the dawn of time. Notable philosophers such as Rene Descartes, Saint Thomas Aquinas, and William Paley have all conceived arguments...

The existence of God has been a big subject in philosophy and efforts to prove or disprove his existence have been taking place since the dawn of time. Notable philosophers such as Rene Descartes, Saint Thomas Aquinas, and William Paley have all conceived arguments to...

William Paley begins his “Argument from Design” by enumerating key differences between two obviously dissimilar objects—a stone and a watch. For the sake of meaningful contrast, Paley emphasizes three distinguishing properties lacked by the former and possessed by the latter. In this paper I will...

When considering the idea of a divine creator one might consider arguments made by analogy, as William Paley does in his work Natural Theology, as indications of such a creator’s existence. Paley constructs an argument by analogy by relating the universe to an intricate mechanical...

Philosophers of all ages have had to come to terms with the existence of God. If God exists then ideas of philosophy such as determinism and a perfect ideal of existence are concepts which can be effectively discussed. However, if there is no God, then...

The Cosmological argument is ‘a posteriori’ – it is reliant upon and fits with our experience of the world around us, with our own experience of causal chains provoking questions over how we, and the universe as a whole, came to be. The aim of...

Human made of thousands of different organs, each organ is made of thousands of different tissues and those tissues are made of thousands of different cells and every cell consists of tiniest particle working together to work for a particular function, Everything inside a human...

Introduction When we adapt a religion the first few questions that comes into the human mind is that “is there a God”, “where is he?”, “why can’t we see the creator?”. If we look in the history we can find that people of different backgrounds...

Introduction In this article we are discussing the various proofs that prove the existence of God and the oneness of Allah (S.W.T). Before we start studying or practicing any religion the first and foremost question that comes to the mind is, “Who is the God?”...

Whenever we see a thing, our mind immediately thinks of its creator. If we see a house, we think of an architect, if we see a clock/watch, we think of a horologist, because a house cannot be made up on its own without an architect...

The absolute paradox is attempting to seek something for which thought is incapable of thinking. Beneath all thinking that transcends him is a passion, but due to the limits in man’s capacities, it is unable to be obtained. Understanding is in constant efforts to seek...

Climacus is not attempting to persuading readers to accept another thought system different from their own, especially one reflecting his beliefs. His goals are for the reader to distance oneself away from the dependency on others’ opinions to allow for a margin of own opinion....

God being defined as the unknown and absolutely different emphasizes the lack of ability to comprehend Him. God is able to make Himself understood by man through various approaches. The first approach being that He could create a unity through an ascent, where He would...

DISCIPLESHIP In today’s contemporary churches, discipleship programs have taken many forms and have assumed many understandings due to different views from different churches. Every church handles discipleship programs due to how relevance they consider it and the goals they want to achieve from it. In...

Descartes example is simply about the mass difference a lump of wax can have; we may perceive it as one thing when in fact it can be seen as much more. Descartes uses an ordinary lump of wax as an argument about taking things into...

Being a Muslim we go through that divinity is one who is the author of Heaven and den but how the query is that how we know how to bear out this accordingly that the non-believers think in one God. There are countless further interesting...

The question that everyone asks does God exist? It takes a glimpse of hope to see and know God. People in this world are more realistic to physical facts other than having greater faith in believing in spiritual beings. According to Gallup poll, eight of...

There are many arguments, reasoning and logics given to prove the existence of God, some of which are as below: Fitrah argument Designer and Designer Argument Scientific Reasoning Religious Phenomenon and Observation. In my opinion, the scientific argument is the strongest of all because it...

There are so many questions than answers provided to understanding the whole universe. Some people turn to those that supposedly to have the answers, such as our family members, people with higher authority, or someone greater than us. On the other hand, others tend to...

With all the evil in the world today and in the past how can an Omnipotent, Omniscient, and all-God exist? Not just evil to other humans in the day to day affairs but throughout history. The evil including animal suffering from natural evils as well...

Evil and its origins is a very difficult subject to comprehend. It is a concept people have been contemplating for centuries. At the forefront of this subject are the arguments put forth by two of the most well-known philosophers in history, Saint Augustine and Friedrich...

The question that everyone asks is “does God exist?”. It takes a glimpse of hope to see and know God. People in this world are more realistic to physical facts other than having greater faith in believing in spiritual beings. According to Gallup poll, eight...

God exists because he makes sense of the origin of the universe, people have seen enough evidence about God to believe he exists, God sent his son to die on the cross for many people sins to come, but people still do not believe in...

The path of Descartes to secure science begins with a fundamental doubt. Descartes states that he was often wrong and also learned a lot of wrongs in his scientific education. He wants to achieve certain knowledge that he doubts everything, which is an uncertain knowledge....

When faced with the highly complex philosophical question about the existence of God, it can become quite complicated to come to a consensus on what the truth is. In our current day and age, there has been an increasingly high number of people believing solely...

God’s existence has been controversial for centuries. Numerous individuals have mulled up the discussion. Having a gander from the viewpoint of the rationalist, the argument is understood to be motivated by two distinct disciplines that combine epistemology and ontology. Hypothesis knowledge is associated with epistemology,...

Does God really exist? This is a very interesting question worth thinking about. This word or a name is very easy to appear in our lives. Maybe this word will appear in any casual communication, but does God really exist? Some people will say that...

Aquinas said that everything in existence is moving and to enter an object into motion, it would need something to do enter it. Consequently, everything that is moving must have been set into motion by something else that was moving. Therefore, something must have started...

Introduction St. Thomas Aquinas was catholic preacher within the Dominican order and one of the significant medieval truth seekers and theologians. According to St. Thomas, “God is an intellect and with that it can be said the universe is structured into truth”. Explanation of the...

Throughout the book Summa Contra Gentiles, there are numerous philosophical explanations made by Thomas Aquinas pertaining to God. One of these explanations revolves around God’s perfection. For this subject, Aquinas claims that God is the most perfect being by using information about God to support...