The historical development of religion has taken many turns, ingesting the new ideas of each major philosopher as he questions the ideas put forth by the man or era before him. In this constant questioning and development of ideas, the trend has changed from theism and faith to more rational religi...

CAN WE PROVE THE EXISTENCE OF GOD? 1. Introduction The question does God exist, is the most controversial issue of serious debate over the centuries. What is the answer to this question? Many contributed their ideas and views to this challenging question from the time of the Greek philosophers to ...

Problems with the Philosophy of Religion The philosophy of religion is an examination of the meaning and justification of religious claims. Claims about how the world is, often embodied in creeds, are more typical of Western religions - Christianity, Judaism, and Islam - than of Eastern religions...

The argument from natural evil, in its most basic form, states that if there is an omniGod (a being that is omniscient, omnipotent, and perfectly good) then there would be no natural evil in the world, but because there is natural evil in the world, an omniGod does not exist. A theodicy is a form of...

Can You Show That We Don't Know Anything? Most people go through life without ever questioning the idea of knowledge. We all make statements every day such as 'I know X', and 'We all have knowledge of Y', yet when we truly examine what it means to 'know' some...

Should people need to prove God exists? If you ask this question, you also must ask what kind of proof would be sufficient and to whom it should be proven. When you talk about proof, you are talking about establishing some degree of certainty about the existence of God. That is where faith comes in...

John Calvin created the patterns and thought that would dominate Western culture throughout the modern period. North American culture, in particular, is thoroughly Calvinist in some form or another; at the heart of the way North Americans think and act, you'll find this fierce and imposing reformer...

The Messiah and the Order of Melchizedek An exegetical look at Psalm 110 Introduction Many times I have wanted to pour my heart out to God and have struggled with finding the adequate words to express my deep emotion. In the back of my mind, I know that God already understands what I&...

Discovering the essence of Christianity is too varied and diverse a topic for anyone to pin to solely one definition. How one approaches the topic of Christianity is often in accordance to their personal foundations of religious belief. Sometimes these beliefs are deeply seeded during childhood ...

Hume "I was from the beginning scandalised, I must own, with this resemblance between the Deity and human creatures." --Philo David Hume wrote much about the subject of religion, much of it negative. In this paper we shall attempt to follow Hume's arguments against Deism as Someone knowable from th...

Proof Of The Exsistence of God Either God exists or He doesn't. There is no middle ground. Any attempt to remain neutral in relation to God's existence is automatically synonymous with unbelief. It is far from a moot question, for if God does exist, then nothing else really matters; if He does not e...

C.S. Lewis begins his book, "Mere Christianity", by introducing the Law of Right and Wrong or the Laws of Nature. This, however, arises a question. What is the Law of Nature? The Law of Nature is the known difference between right and wrong. That is, mans distinction between what is right and wh...

"The Contribution of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Interpretation of the Old Testament"In reviewing the works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the study of the Old Testament seems to be almost non-existent. It is not until his time in Tegel Prison, nearly one year prior to his execution, that he fully commits himsel...

The following essay is two-fold. Firstly, I will briefly summarize The Openness of God, by Pinnock and others. Secondly, and more importantly, I will discuss and analyze the quote, "God is love is as close as the Bible comes to giving us a definition of his divine reality" (taken from Richard Rice...

(A) Introduction Pentateuch is considered to be the most important part in the Old Testament. It recorded the account of creation, the fall of man, the Law Code as well as the experience of the Ancient Israel. Among them Genesis is the first book recorded incidents happened from the creation of ...