Through Barth’s work, Church Dogmatics, he showed his concepts of revelation. He thought God’s acts in revealing himself to us and when he wants to and the revelation is a personal disclosure of God’s being and nature. Also revelation is given only in Jesus Christ, who is God’s full and final word humanity. (needs A02) The relation between
As we analyze the question of did Jesus claim to be God, I believe that not only did Jesus claim to be God that Jesus is God. In the matter of does the Bible have authority? I strongly believe that the Bible is the infallible word of God; the Bible holds all truths and revelations for our lives. If we believe what the Bible says then we know with confidence that we have what God intended for us as believers to know about him. Also we have seen why our testimonies are important in sharing the gospel.
(1 Corinthians 2:11-12 NLT). Only spiritual people can understood spiritual truths, however, Paul does state that not to be boastful, but to only boast about God who is the supreme of wisdom. 2. What does Chapter 3 suggest about faith and the process by which it is obtained? Chapter three suggestion about faith is that Paul has laid the foundation to be believe in God by speaking to the church at Corinth.
Newman was an Anglican theologian who supported the notion that conscience is truly the voice of God, and thus developed an intuitionist understanding of how we make ethical decisions. He says that our conscience is "the voice of God" completely distinct from our will or desires. It is an innate principle planted in us before we had the ability to reason. Newman described conscience as a 'law of the mind', but he did not see it as giving us commandments to follow. The conscience is not a set of rules, a feeling of guilt or something that we obey in order to gain a reward from God.
Jesus also insists that the spirit will only speak that which he hears but not on his own impulse. Also the things that the Spirit declares are to be understood and exercised by the gift of prophecy in the church including all believers. 11. As a matter of review, list the five functions of the Spirit. Bruce, p.
Tillich defined God as the ‘ground of being’ and ‘our ultimate concern’ because God is the basis of all that exists and also the meaning behind all that exists. Therefore a sense of participation in God does not alienate us from the nature of this world; neither do our sense experiences in this world alienate God from us. In fact symbols are a very experiential idea, for example “While I am in the world, I am the light of the world” (John 9.5) uses the symbol of light which empirically
Descartes' argument in the Meditations is circular. Discuss. In trying to prove the existence of God, Descartes will, of course, have to rely on what he can clearly and distinctly perceive, because this is the only way he can know anything. However, Descartes also needs to prove that God exists for us to know what we clearly and distinctly perceive. This leads to the famous objection that he uses the existence of God to establish his doctrine of clear and distinct ideas, and that he uses his doctrine of clear and distinct ideas to establish the existence of God: his argument is circular.
It is also deductive, so the conclusion is the only possible one that could be deduced give the premises. Therefore, it is theoretically strong. Anselm proposed in the Proslogian that the existence of God was true for him by the virtue of faith and logical necessity. He proposed a reductio ad absurdum argument that aimed to demonstrate he impossibility of denying God’s existence. His first form of the argument runs as follows: (P1) God is that than which nothing greater can be conceived (P2) If God exists in the mind alone (in intellect) then a greater being can be conceived (in re) (P3) God to be the greatest being, has to existing the mind and in reality, otherwise another being would be greater than God.
According to him, there must be as much reality or perfection in the cause of anything as in the effect. Moreover, he believed that the notion of God represents something so ideal that he could not have been the cause of this idea. I believe that Descartes arguments are not really such convincing because of the following reasons which I would like to point out. We may all come to this point and consider that we all exist; however, it’s not completely true because Descartes had an idea of the perfect being in his mind, but I surely don't have such an idea. Now what am I to believe?
Anselm was attempting to prove that god existed “a priori,” or through reason alone. He argued that not everyone needed a personal experience with God to believe in him – God’s existence was a logical conclusion if you thought the argument through. Specifically Anselm aimed his argument at “The Fool.” This does not refer to any