Extensive Reading

EXTENSIVE READING FORM

Student's name and course: MARITE MARIN LINDO – A08

1.      Express opinions, doubts, confusions, and convictions that come to your mind as you think about what you have read. Watch and write about how these things change over time. Include title of book, article, magazine, etc. that you are reading.

Proof That God Exists

You have likely heard that it is impossible to prove that God exists. You have heard wrong. Not only can the existence of God be proven, denying the proof undermines rational thought. It is true that God does not need anyone, let alone this website, to prove His existence. The Bible teaches that the existence of God is so obvious that we are without excuse for denying Him. No one needs proof that God exists, I simply offer this steps to the logical proof of God's existence in addition to what you already know (and may be suppressing. The first step towards the proof that God exists is to determine whether you actually believe that laws of logic exist. Logical proof would be irrelevant to someone who denies that laws of logic exist. An example of a law of logic is the law of non-contradiction. This law states, for instance, that it cannot both be true that my car is in the parking lot and that it is not in the parking lot at the same time, and in the same way.

Also there are Arguments for and against the existence of God have been proposed by philosophers, theologians, scientists, and others. In philosophical terms, arguments for and against the existence of God involve primarily the sub-disciplines of epistemology (theory of knowledge) and ontology (nature of being), but also of the theory of value, since concepts of perfection are often bound up with notions of God.

The debate concerning the existence of God raises many philosophical issues. A basic problem is the existence of both monotheistic and polytheistic views. Some definitions of God's existence are so non-specific that it is certain that something exists that meets the definition; in stark contrast, there are suggestions that other definitions are self-contradictory. A wide variety of arguments exist which can be categorized as metaphysical, logical, empirical, or subjective. The existence of God is subject to lively debate both in philosophy philosophy of religion being almost entirely devoted to the question and in popular culture.

2) VOCABULARY:

1) INNATE: /   /: not established by conditioning or learning, being talented through inherited qualities.

Context example: An innate reflex.

2) RIGHTEOUS: //: characterized by or proceeding from accepted standards of morality or justice.

Context example: the...prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

3) LAWLESS:/ /  without law or control.

Context example: the system is economically inefficient and politically anarchic

4) STARK: // devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment

Context examples: The blunt truth / the crude facts / facing the stark reality of the deadline

5)CONVICT:/ / Find or declare guilty

Context example: The man was convicted of fraud and sentenced