The New Testament names James the Just, Joses, Simon, and Jude as the brothers (Greek adelphoi) of Jesus (Mark 6:3, Matthew 13:55, John 7:3, Acts 1:13, 1 Corinthians 9:5).
Q. What did Anselm believe?
Anselm claims to derive the existence of God from the concept of a being than which no greater can be conceived. St. Anselm reasoned that, if such a being fails to exist, then a greater being—namely, a being than which no greater can be conceived, and which exists—can be conceived.
Q. Where does God come from?
The earliest written form of the Germanic word God comes from the 6th-century Christian Codex Argenteus. The English word itself is derived from the Proto-Germanic * ǥuđan.
Q. What is God’s phone number?
In the 2003 Jim Carrey comedy “Bruce Almighty,” God’s phone number (776-2323, no area code) appears on the Carrey character’s pager, so of course moviegoers called it and asked to speak to God.
Q. Does Yahweh mean I am?
The word possibly was “Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh Asher” meaning “I am That I am That”. Moses in his ecstasy and bliss wanted to share this state with the people of Israel and so it was a need to give a name to this experience, to this state, hence he gave a name to “That” and “Ehyeh” became “Yahweh”.
Q. Is Allah Yahweh?
The names and character of Allah Unlike the biblical Yahweh (sometimes misread as Jehovah), he has no personal name, and his traditional 99 names are really epithets. These include the Creator, the King, the Almighty, and the All-Seer.
Q. Who wrote Quran?
Prophet Muhammad
Q. What language is Allah?
Allah, Arabic Allāh (“God”), the one and only God in Islam. Allah is the standard Arabic word for God and is used by Arabic-speaking Christians and Jews as well as by Muslims.
Q. Which is older the Bible or the Quran?
The Bible (Old Testament/New Testament) for Christian or the Tanakh (OT) for the Jews was produced before the Quran.
Q. What are the premises and conclusion of Paley’s design argument?
Design arguments typically consist of (1) a premise that asserts that the material universe exhibits some empirical property F; (2) a premise (or sub-argument) that asserts (or concludes) that F is persuasive evidence of intelligent design or purpose; and (3) a premise (or sub-argument) that asserts (or concludes) that …
Q. What are the first causes or highest principles?
First cause, in philosophy, the self-created being (i.e., God) to which every chain of causes must ultimately go back. The term was used by Greek thinkers and became an underlying assumption in the Judeo-Christian tradition.
Q. Who wrote the 5 proofs of the existence of God?
Edward Feser
Q. What is God theory?
In The God Theory, Bernard Haisch discards both these worldviews and proposes a theory that provides purpose for our lives while at the same time being completely consistent with everything we have discovered about the universe and life on Earth.
Q. Is God self evident?
For Aquinas, the statement God exists is self-evident in itself since existence is a part of God’s essence or nature (that is, God is his existence—a claim to which we’ll turn below). Yet the statement is not self-evident to us because God’s essence is not something we can comprehend fully.
Q. What is the philosophy of God?
Philosophical theism is the belief that the Supreme Being exists (or must exist) independent of the teaching or revelation of any particular religion. It represents belief in God entirely without doctrine, except for that which can be discerned by reason and the contemplation of natural laws.
Q. Where did the idea of God come from?
The first to broach the idea of human beings having created gods were a number of Old Testament Jewish prophets from the eighth century BC onwards. Why has their role here been overlooked? Perhaps it is because it was assumed that a serious critique of religion could only arise from outside a religious perspective.
Q. What is the African concept of God?
Abstract. Within the Akan tradition, God is intangible, aloof, and mysterious. Practitioners of this indigenous African religion understand that everything we say about God is symbolic and unabashedly anthropocentric, since religion is a human enterprise that exists for practical purposes.
Q. Who is God in African traditional religion?
Generally speaking, African religions hold that there is one creator God, the maker of a dynamic universe. Myths of various African peoples relate that, after setting the world in motion, the Supreme Being withdrew, and he remains remote from the concerns of human life.
Q. What is the true African religion?
According to all the major surveys, Christianity and Islam each represent approximately 40 percent of the African population. Christianity is more dominant in the south, while Islam is more dominant in the north.
Q. What is the main religion in Africa today?
Religion in Africa is multifaceted and has been a major influence on art, culture and philosophy. Today, the continent’s various populations and individuals are mostly adherents of Christianity, Islam, and to a lesser extent several traditional African religions.
