Phi 208 Final Paper

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God does exist with science as a complement.

Many people over the history of the world have asked the same question: “Does God exist?” Do you believe in God and creation or do you go by way of revolution? Many people who are religion say they walk in faith, for the purpose of explaining their God. How does God and morality fit into the picture? We ask how a loving God can allow the evil and the disasters to go on in this world. If he is all powerful why doesn’t he stop the hatred and wars? The natural disasters that kill hundreds and thousands of incent people. We say the bad or evil in the world is because God gave us all free will. Therefore hate, crime in many forms, evil as one might call it will exist as long as we humans walk the earth. So does God exist and does evil have room to be in the same space as God?

I had to ask some of these questions myself. I came from a very abusive home and could not understand how a good God could let it happen. I found church through a bus ministry and would go each Sunday to escape the home life for most of the day. I invited God into my heart as an early teen and that is when my world changed due to the word love and salvation. The love that was talked about in church sure didn’t hurt like the love shown at home. I was being taught moral and ethical values. No one at the church knew of my world at home. This meant I was keeping a secret. As I look back this was not a moral way to live, but did God understand? I ask where morality fits into his plan. I find myself in a philosophy class and many questions come up about mortality. “Moral disagreement, it was augured, was analyzable in terms of disagreements...