philosopher quotes Flashcards
william rowe
problem of evil
“the existence of evil makes God’s existence unlikely or highly improbable”
hick
universal salvation
“it can be predicted that sooner or later, in our own time and in our own way, we shall freely come to God; and universal salvation can be affirmed”
council of chalcedon
jesus’ divinity
“perfect in divinity and humanity, truly God, and truly human”
“consisting of a rational soul and body”
hume
miracles
“wise men proportion their belief to the evidence”
schillebeeks
miracles
“God himself wishes to communicate something to us in the miracle”
“for anyone who is open and listens to it”
NT wright
miracles (kingdom of God)
“something that has happened, within what we would call the natural world, which is not what we anticipated, and seems to provide evidence for the active presence of an authority, a power, at work”
mill’s harm principle
euthanasia
“the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others”
rc church
euthanasia
“an act or omission which, of itself or by intention, causes death in order to eliminate suffering constitutes a murder”
“the error of judgement into which one can fall into good faith does not change the nature of this murderous act, which must always be forbidden and excluded”
paley
watch analogy
“every manifesto of design, exists in the works of nature”
hume
particle idea
“if i showed you particular causes of each individual in a collection of twenty particles of matter, i should think it is very unreasonable should you afterwards ask me, what was the cause of the whole twenty. that is sufficiently explained in explain the cause of the parts”
tenants anthropic principle
“nature in meaningless and valueless without God behind it and man infant”
anslem
ontological argument
God is that which nothing greater can be conceived
