Factual Question(s): What language was used primarily for scholars in the Middle East and Europe right after the burst of Islam? Answer: Arabic
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Which two great convolutions challenged the authority and the religious perspective of the church during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries? Answer: Reformation and Renaissance
Debate Question(s):
Is God directly involved in our everyday lives? What constitutes involvement?
Moreover, is God in your life specifically?
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Are faith and reason interchangeable? Are they used to support one another?
In my opinion, God is involved in our everyday lives. We exist, so it could be argued that, at some point, there was the involvement of a creator. Indirectly, there are events that occur in our everyday life which shape our futures which can also present the argument for the involvement of God. Involvement can be defined in different ways. It just depends on how you view religion and involvement.
ReplyDeleteI think there is something unseen controlling my life, but I haven't seen it. It may not be God, but there has to be something there, otherwise there wouldn't be anything to argue about in a philosophy class.
I believe faith and reason are interchangeable and can support one another. Reason justifies faith in existence for some, and faith gives a reason to exist.
The argument of whether God is present in our everyday lives will continue until the end of time, or end of human race. It's how we go about our everyday lives knowing that the human brain (unless touched by some personal, mystical experience, etc)is incompetent of achieving such 'knowledge' and how we proceed on, putting faith wherever we individually decide to put it. And sometimes faith can derive from something like a mystical experience--beyond words, so without a 'reason'
ReplyDeleteI think that faith and reason must be clearly defined if we are to compare them. Faith, as I will use it, is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. It is you meaning of reason that I am unsure. For the sake of parsimony I will assume it to mean science.
ReplyDeleteScience is built upon provable fact. In theory, faith shouldn't come into it, save to prompt us to search for fact. Regrettably, faith is very present in science (macro-evolution).
Religion on the other hand is built on faith. There is also the assumption that science will support our faith, but it is not necessary that it should. (miracles)
Matthew Williams
Yes, God is involved in our everyday lives. Everything that happen is part of His plan. God is the creator of the universe and our lives live by the plan that He has created. If something good happens, God is loving on you. If something that you think is bad happens, then He is probably trying to teach you a lesson, show you how strong you are, or simply showing you that you are straying away from his word. Would it not make sense to believe that if He has that kind of power, then He would be involved in our lives?
ReplyDeleteIf there's a Master Plan for the universe, and everything is already foreordained, then everything is for the best and this IS (as Voltaire parodied Leibniz) the best of possible worlds. It was a good thing that all those people died on 9-11. It's good when small children are abused, tortured, starved... God's just laying some tough love on 'em? COME ON, YOU DON'T BELIEVE THAT! (I'm not shouting, just urging you to think this through.)
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