“A man can’t be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it” (CS Lewis.) Amartya Sen wrote, “Truth is here related to the extent of our questions.”
Apologetics
means a rational argument in the defense of a sensible and the attainment of faith. Religion is a commitment, a private point of devotion, and belief in components in an all-inclusive structure. Any fabrication, even to make people feel good consciously and knowingly, would make me their enemies (Criss Jaimi.)
“It is not God I do not accept, Dostoevsky grumbled, “But the world he has created” (Matthews 1.) As Saint Augustine of Hippo and Herbert McCabe hold, wickedness is a bad that amounts to a lack of some kind. Evil is against the moral order (Matthews 4.)
Genesis, 3, has no reference to damnatin, disobedience and evil, punishment, rebellion, sin, or falls from grace. These terms were supplied by theologians (Harris 381.) Saint Augustine’s orthodox interpretation of Paul’s thought of the Hellenistic view of Adam and Eve (Harris 381.) Hell is a choice (CS Lewis) not a retributive punishment (Evans 53.)
Saint Aquinas states all sensible moral thinking, “Human beings are master of their own actions, able to act or not to act (Davies 575.) For Saint Aquinas, “I am free not in spite of God but because of God” (Davies 575.)
In conclusion, virtues are to be universalized according to Kant and gotten through habit (Freeland 1.) Nietzsche says we are responsible for the concept of evil itself (Chignell 380.) Nietzsche’s thesis are the values we hold are nihilistic (Solomon 38.) Nietzsche echoes the classic utterance, “God is dead” (Solomon 38.) Enter Hume, reason cannot prove existence of matters of facts (Lavine 174.) The existence of God is not a self-evident idea nor a logical truth (Lavine 174.) Denying, that God exists is not contradicting oneself (Lavine 174.) Dostoevsky claimed in Crime and Punishment, “If there is not God, everything is permitted (Solomon 51.) Brothers Karamazov executes Christ in the second coming once, again (Solomon 51.) Socrates asked, “Is the holy loved by the gods because it is holy? Or, it is holy because it is loved? (Davies 635.) “Wager, then, without hesitation that He is” (Gould 410,) wrote Pascal. “If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing, " wrote Pascal (Gould 410.) Because it is life, not truth that really counts (Solomon 17.) That is my opinion, I could be wrong.