Ward believes religion to be existential. However, not everyone shares my opinion. Richard Swinburne used the principle of Occam’s razor to illustrate that Aquinas’ Cosmological Argument has value for religious faith. Occam’s razor says that the simplest answer is the best one, and as God is the simplest answer for the first cause, it is the best one. Denys Turner makes the point that Aquinas is misread, he says that Aquinas is just clarifying the existence of God for people who already believe rather than in an attempt to persuade non-believers.
For Anselm, God cannot not exist. Descartes supported Anselm in his book ‘meditations’ and developed Anselm’s argument particularly in terms of necessary being. He based his argument for God’s existence on the idea that God is a ‘supremely perfect being’. Descartes believed that we can conclude that God exists, because existence is a predicate of a perfect being; therefore God must exist to avoid being self contradictory.
For a short while, Celie’s letters begin with “Dear Nettie”, because Celie learned that her sister, Nettie, was still alive. This implies that Celie wrote to God because she had no-one else to turn to, thus giving the impression that the letters were a form of escapism and release for Celie. It could be argued that Celie’s faith in God falters slightly towards this part of the book, for after the Nettie saga, Celie expresses how she was taught to see God as “a white bearded man”, which seems to have felt unnatural to her. Once Celie learns of Pantheism from Shug, she seems more comfortable with the idea of God, for she addresses the last letter of the novel "Dear God. Dear stars, dear trees,
Moral Relativism&Plato’s Euthyphro The idea that the truth is relative is that what is true for me is true for me and what is true for you is true for you. For instance person one believes in the existence of god. Person two believes there is no god at all. If the truth were relative that would mean Person one’s reality is that god exisitses and person two’s reality is that god does not exist. Both of them would be right because the truth is relative to what they believe.
For example; his decision to heal on the Sabbath day, rejecting the commitments of Sabbath the ceremony. This principle also states commandments are not absolute due to Jesus breaking them because of love. Concluding this principle love replaces law and is never equal to any law. Fletcher’s third fundamental principle is “Love and justice are the same”. This means justice is love distributed but can’t be separated from each other.
Boethius used this theory to illustrate how God is not able to relate to humans as he is not in time with them, nor one of them. This means that he can also not interact them including punishing and rewarding humans. Boethius explains that if God were to interact, punishing and rewarding, it would mean he would be experiencing time as one and so undermining Boethius’ theory of god being eternal. This idea is more consistent with the idea that God is immutable and is not contingent. On the other hand, Boethius also states that humans do not have free will.
Situation ethics is a Christian approach in dealing with ethical problems and moral choices. Joseph Fletcher, who published his theory in his book ‘Situation Ethics’ in 1966, primarily developed the theory. The theory is teleological due to its belief that actions have no intrinsic value. Instead, the theory focuses on one intrinsic good, agape, the Greek word for self-sacrificial, impersonal love. Agape is believed to love as God loves and Fletcher described it as ‘an attitude not a feeling’, therefore separating it from all other forms of love.
Luther strongly disputed the current claims of Catholicism that freedom from the wrath of God for sin could be purchased. He was a proponent of the ideas that justification of faith alone would be an individual’s salvation and that “all of your life and works are nothing to God” that they are “dead things, which can neither honor nor praise God…” (Luther 21)(Luther 27). This belief would provide stability and security for an individual’s life, because even though the times were difficult, salvation in the after life was promised. Therefore, the only source security necessary during the medieval time period would be the bible, because it is the sole source of knowledge from God. Christians who believed in this doctrine did not need to worry
However, through human relationships, we are capable of achieving an easier life. We are made by God to interact with family, friends, neighbors, coworkers, and classmates. In Romans 7:1-4, Paul talks about the holy sacrament of marriage. Romans 7:2 says, “For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.” This scripture explains that marriage between a couple is so important that if a woman’s husband dies, she would not be considered an adulteress. By today’s standards, 50% of marriages end in divorce.
I don't see why they should have to leave the state that they are in just to go to a different state the recognizes legal marriages between the same sex. They are not hurting anyone by marrying someone of the same sex. They have the right to marry just as a man and woman do. As I stated before god would want us all to be happy and be able to live life. Everyone breaks the laws of the bible at some point you are suppose to love honor and obey the one you marry until death do you part but a lot of people break that rule and get divorced.