The existence of God: A discussion 
.... If
God had a
beginning, then something would have preceded him; and if
God is to have an end, then there would have to be a reality with the power to achieve ....
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The First Cause Argument for God's Existence
.... so on in a series which must either be infinite or have its
beginning point in a .... at the concept that there must be a First Cause, which we consider to be
God. ....
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Creation Stories and Myths
.... Smith writes, "Against all such forms of world pessimism, the chronicle of the Jewish perspective opens with the statement: 'In the
beginning God created the ....
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Scriptural and Scientific View of Creation
The position taken is that there is a balance between the Big Bang theory of creation and the opening sentences of Genesis: "In the
beginning God created the ....
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A Brief History of Time
.... are also tested by this discovery, though they are tested in a way that suggests that those who believe there was a
beginning shaped by
God were closer to the ....
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Jewish and Christian Interpretations of Genesis
.... and the Word was
God. He was in the
beginning with
God. .... the text. In the
beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth ....
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Christ On Marriage and Divorce
.... In the words of Jesus: "At the
beginning God made them male and female; for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and the two shall become as one ....
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Love according to CS Lewis and Pope Benedict XVI: Analysis and ...
.... an action, not just a commodity to be received passively, and when
God acts in .... has been an essential part of her mission from the very
beginning." The context ....
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God in Literature
.... mixed with qualities of the character that could be viewed as
God-like .... In Hamlet, we see that the supernatural plays a role from the
beginning, since it is the ....
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Meditations on First Philosophy.
.... own existence,
God's existence and perfect goodness, innate ideas, and, finally his mind-body dualism. Another strength is his insistence on
beginning at the ....
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Christology
.... In the
beginning was the "word", and the "word" is
God. Yet, it took Jesus to communicate the word of
God to humans and for humans to communicate with
God. ....
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Philosopher Leibniz
.... As Solomon and Higgins write, Leibniz's philosophy is simply not rigorous or even logical, for he begins at the
beginning of his argument--with
God as the ....
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John, Luke, Mark, Matthew
.... argue in detail the conclusion in Romans 3:23: "all have sinned, and come short of the glory of
God." Paul then presents the good news,
beginning with Abraham ....
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Flannery O'Connor's Short Stories
.... with the grandmother, the Misfit is essentially unchanging from the
beginning to the end .... Mr. Shiftlet, on the other hand, does believe in
God but he acts not ....
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Islam
.... founding of the religion, which is now the world's second largest, began with the revelation of the word of
God directly through Muhammad,
beginning around the ....
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Exodus and Genesis
.... fact that the stories have come down through a long process of oral and written tradition and have been shaped to confess faith in
God. The
beginning of Exodus ....
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Mencius: The Problem of Good and Evil
.... for greater clarity in defining the problem of evil and the relationship of evil to
God. .... Mencius uses the term duan or
beginning to refer to this potentiality. ....
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Myths and the Hebrew Bible
.... myth of Genesis. The first myth in Genesis commences: "In the
beginning God created the heaven and the earth. The earth was without ....
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Creation of Man in the Image of God
.... Adam's descendants,
beginning with Seth and extending to the whole of the human race, have ostensibly become copies of copies. No longer created in
God's image ....
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Life of Muhammad
.... but there are reasons to think that Muhammad interpreted them as
God Himself. .... preached for three years privately only to his friends before
beginning to preach ....
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Cosmology
.... are also tested by this discovery, though they are tested in a way that suggests that those who believe there was a
beginning shaped by
God were closer to the ....
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The issue of cosmology
.... are also tested by this discovery, though they are tested in a way that suggests that those who believe there was a
beginning shaped by
God were closer to the ....
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The Word of God
.... In John 1:1-3, we read that "In the
beginning was the Word, and the Word was with
God, and the Word was Godàall things were made through Him, and without Him ....
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Middle Ages and the Renaissance
.... Conceptualizing
God's discourse to man, Mirandola states: "Thou, constrained by no limits, in .... Thus we see the
beginning of the Renaissance ideal that man has ....
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The Christological Controversy
.... view was that only the intervention of divine grace could foster salvation: "The Augustinian system gives
God exclusive credit for
beginning and completing the ....
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Bertrand Russell[s Argument Against Christianity
.... The idea that things must have a
beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination (686). The argument for
God based on "first cause" is not much of an ....
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Justice and the Will of God
.... direction of the individual's contemplation of his or her position in relation to
God. .... written in the early 1980s, can be identified as the
beginning of the ....
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Commentary on James' Epistle
.... At the
beginning of his book Alsobrook describes Solomon's sacrifice at the dedication .... foresaw the inestimable cost of the perfect Lamb that
God required" (11 ....
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Chinua Achebe's Novel Arrow of God
.... only just
beginning at the time this novel takes place. But there is also a sense that somehow there would be found a balance in which the gods or
God dealt ....
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The Quran
.... fact that the stories have come down through a long process of oral and written tradition and have been shaped to confess faith in
God. The
beginning of Exodus ....
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