Also
think about your existence, go back step by step and you will find you were not exist in the face of earth... then there must be someone who is running the entire universe...
To the inquiry, «What do
you think about the existence of God?»
That's my reaction every time
I think about the existence of this movie.
We use those resources in a regular basis and do not even
think about their existence — if we are not in a shortage of those two.
The Sims 3 Store can technically be accessed in game, however, it can also be completely hidden so that players who want nothing to do with it don't even have to
think about its existence.
Not exact matches
Think about how far humanity has progressed in its short 200,000 years of
existence.
Thomas
thinks that it is the discipline of metaphysics that asks questions
about the ultimate cause of
existence of things, and, as he says, «not only does faith hold that there is creation, reason also demonstrates it» (In II Sent., dist.
Steven, you're right, a god's
existence would be empirically untestable, unless it manifested itself in our universe in some way and demonstrated that it can bend the natural laws etc.... But, what gets me, is that you're saying that it is a waste of time to
think about things that are empirically untestable.
(the way someone
thinks about the world) Do you no view people of the world with Inherent
existence;
existence possessed by virtue of a being's own nature, and independent of any other being or cause?
I am not able to
think like God, but I wonder how He feels
about all this fighting back and forth
about His
existence.
When you
think about the reason why you most likely dismiss the
existence of Zeus or Vishnu, you will understand why I dismiss the
existence of Jehovah.
We would be left claiming the
existence of that
about which nothing whatsoever could be said or
thought.
In this situation, since God's
existence as cause of things is known, the objection that nothing further can be said or
thought about God univocally might appear as a quibble.
A «gnostic» is one who knows
about the
existence of god and an «agnostic» is one who
thinks that god is unknowable.
Think about it: What meaning would God have had to his
existence prior to creating?
God has given us much evidence of His
existence: how
about the intricacies of how the human body works - can you really believe that happened without a master plan; what
about the beauty of nature - can we really
think that that just happened; what
about the testimony of millions throughout the ages including Scientists attempting to disprove God, that point to things beyond their comprehension or doing.
One insight provided by Hartshorne's work on the ontological argument is that the concept of the
existence of God is something akin to a regulative idea for the rational
thought about reality which is attempted in Hartshorne's metaphysics.
If your infinite chain theories were logical and truly proved the
existence of a god, don't you
think that this would be major news and others would be talking
about your theory?
You know, the one that aches every time you
think about how lonely your godless
existence is?
Whitehead so emphatically repudiates the Platonic tendency to
think of the realm of forms as constituting a superior, self - sufficient type of
existence, that he interprets even the propositions of mathematics as statements
about certain possible forms of process.
And when he was
thinking about human
existence itself, he was intent upon saying that a whole human person was compounded of body as well as of soul; in the end, he said, the two would be reunited after the separation which death had brought
about.
They take us to the edge of our
existence and force us to
think about the meaning of it all.
In these quite different ways, something is being said
about a refreshment or enablement which is provided for human
existence; and something is also being said, even in a fashion which sometimes seems curiously negative (as in Indian religious
thought and observance),
about a relationship with a more ultimate and all - inclusive reality that establishes a kind of companionship between our own little life and the greater circumambient divine being.
Regardless of a god's
existence, I would say there is a difference between the heart of a murderer, i.e.
thinking about murder, and hate.
It insists that
thinking that occurs apart from critical involvement ends up in constructions of theories
about existence that keep us from the real world.
Most of the time, however, we simply take our creaturely worth as something granted and given; we may not
think about it much if at all, yet it is the basis for our
existence.
It is my thesis that, in conjunction with his profound reflections on the good and the
thought about the nature of man bound up with it, Socrates entered into a new structure of
existence.
As soon as one begins to
think about the basic issues of human
existence, one is faced with the question of where to turn to find a trustworthy guide.
The obligation to bear and communicate such meanings against his natural feeling and
thinking was the ground of Jeremiah's discovery of his selfhood as «I.» Not the reception of the Word as such but the necessity to decide
about it was crucial to the formation of this structure of
existence and to its preservation and strengthening in the Jewish community.
If you don't want to
think about God's
existence, then choose not to read the damn billboard.
Science and metaphysics too, providing the latter is viewed as a natural mode of cognition and is not unconsciously supplemented by theological knowledge
about God's saving action in the history of redemption, can each from their own angle quite well
think of God as the transcendent ground of all reality, of its
existence and of its becoming, as the primordial reality comprising everything, supporting everything, but precisely for that reason can not regard him as a partial factor and component in the reality with which we are confronted, nor as a member of its causal series.
An agnostic atheist would take the stance that although they currently don't believe in God and don't
think there is any evidence
about such an
existence, they don't completely rule out the possibility of God because they don't
think the question is fully knowable.
I
think the worst part of accepting the truth
about Santa is the subsequent concern that the
existence of God is also a myth.
The Valparaiso Project on the Education and Formation of People in Faith, based at Valparaiso University in Indiana, has been encouraging people to
think about and live the communal practices that form Christian
existence.
Richard Dawkins as a stupid man and greatly admire his presentation of the evidence for natural selection; but I
think he is wrong
about the
existence of God and I would argue that the evidence shows him to be wrong.»
If you
think about any one of these rules, and they came into
existence, you will likely recall the events and situations that led up to making such a law necessary for the happy
existence of your family.
... If our politicians were realists, they would
think rather less
about missiles and the problem of landing astronauts on the moon, rather more
about hunger and moral squalor and the problem of enabling three billion men, women, and children, who will soon be six billions, to lead a tolerably human
existence without, in the process, ruining and befouling their planetary environment.
What has so far been said
about it does not mean that we first actively
think the word «God» individually and that it thus invades our
existence.
Apparently he
thought of it as coming in with «Adam's fall,» the transgression of an ancient ancestor fastening sin upon his descendants; but he also
thought of it as related to the activities of demons,
about the
existence of which neither Paul nor his contemporaries had any doubt.
I don't know
about you, but I would believe the people who study the human mind,
thoughts, and behavior (i.e. psychologists and sociologists), over someone who says there's some spooky external agent that no one can possibly verify the
existence of, and which has no consistent pattern of action with which to use as evidence for verification.
Why do you
think atheists worry
about existence or non-
existence of Jesus?
But for our present purpose, it is enough to say that when we are
thinking about the last things, our
thought must include much more than human
existence and human personality in its body - mind totality, even in its social relationships.
Scientists do not have clear, provable theories to describe the evolution of all species in
existence, and everything
about the earth (if you
think I'm wrong on this point, you either live in a box or you're delusional), but we do not throw out evolutionary theory merely because it is incomplete.
I can't prove God's
existence just as much as scientist can't prove the big bang... there is evidence of both but to reach a conclusion takes faith... one side leaves hope and the other does not... maybe I'm agnostic too because I don't claim to know everything
about why I'm here, I have to have faith... Honestly, I'm sick of the extremes on both sides... the conservative judgmental Christian, who never
thought through things as to why the believe what they do (ie Dinosaurs, cavemen, evolution, etc.) and the intellectually arrogant atheist and humanists.
I am suggesting that we must
think differently
about what the saving love of God means if it is to speak to our time, addressing the question of the possible end of
existence raised by, ecological deterioration and nuclear escalation and that we do this by
thinking in different images.
Creation comes
about only through destruction, in a universe and plane of
existence of seemingly infinite stretches and constantly redefined understandings, the poor wretch who clings to archaic mans reasoning will find himself continually outclassed, out
thought and out performed.
You'd
think between the
existence of over 700,000 words in the Bible and the testimony of nature we could know at least something
about faith.
If my statements
about atheists sound negative it is not personal I simply
think a frog and man have a different reason for
existence.
Our concern has been simply to indicate what process -
thought in a general way has to tell us
about God, the world, the nature of man and society, coupled with some discussion of its references to the historical figure of Jesus and its way of envisaging the destiny of man both in and beyond his present mortal
existence.
Whatever we perceive to be the truth
about God, I
think there is some things we all can agree on, believers and anyone who doesn't believe in the
existence of God and that is that it is self evident that all are born equal and with dignity and it's best if everyone relate to each other as part of the human family.