Good Advice Essay

“A Grief Observed” tells us about the experiences of its author, C. S. Lewis, during his time of darkness, of grief, anger, confusion, and doubt. It tells us about Lewis struggle in life, especially after he loses his most loving wife Joy Davidson due to cancer. Reading the book, one will see how a believer of God journeys through negative moments of belief, reflecting on his faith, then realizing the fault in it which enables Lewis to purify his faith. In the first chapter of this book, Lewis…

of good in the world exceeds the amount of evil and the scale will be tipped in the favor of good, rather than evil. Therefore, the net value of the world would be inherently good. Moreover, the addition of evil into our world actually maximizes the amount of good we see in our world and results in a higher net good. If we lived in a world with no evil, we would have a low level of “good” as humans would be living very mundane lives. However, with the introduction of evil, the amount of good…

would want, yet it is for their own good. Pertaining to Swinburne’s claim, the answer is “yes” there are similarities in the metaphor, but there are also some problems. A good, ideal parent knows when to stop pushing his/her child, and regulate whatever the goal is. However, for God, when does he know when we or he has reached our limit? He may be omniscient, but does that mean when he pushes us past our limits, that he is doing this on purpose? Being not as wholly good as we thought he was?…

Therefore, nature is probably the work of a designer” (Evans, 2009). God cannot be explained or defined, and He cannot be put into a neat little box of answers to all of man’s questions. Attempting to explain God’s nature and all that encompasses Him, His intelligence, character, and supernatural powers, would be futile and unfeasible. It would be impossible to explain everything that encompasses God, and attempting to do so would probably take an eternity. Acknowledging that human beings are…

1969 was a year with a distinct economic, social, political, and intellectual atmosphere. After the end of World War II in 1945, the US experienced great economic prosperity lasting until the 1970s where sound employment could be obtained relatively easily for both skilled and unskilled work. The affluence this created also caused a baby boom where birth rates temporarily increased, and in 1969, many of those born in the baby boom now made up 8 million young adults going though college. This…

In the “Roundtable Discussion on the Problem of Evil”, Meghan Sullivan, Trent Dougherty, and Sam Newlands discuss the Problem of Evil for theism. All three people do not take the side of a theist or an atheist, but instead discuss the problem from a mostly objective view. The Problem of Evil is also discussed by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and William Craig in God? A Debate Between a Christian and an Atheist, where Sinnott-Armstrong argues from the atheist’s point of view and Craig argues from the…

convince the family to go to Tennessee instead of Florida, by adding there is a loose criminal headed towards the south. However, the grandmother being intrusive, tags along with the family anyways, “Afraid she 'd miss something.” In the story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, it shows how such a self-deemed “lady as herself”…

The nature of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, evaluates that all human action is a means towards pursuing an ultimate good, known as happiness. Happiness is deemed the ultimate ends of pursuing the good. I will explain how Aristotle’s argument for the the aims of human activity and the pursuit of human nature relates to the science of politics. Aristotle examines that not all actions are direct leads towards happiness, but are subordinate ends. An example given would be that “bridle making and…

Beowulf A New Telling by Robert Nye is a detailed book full of adventure and the relationship between good and evil, and, with that, darkness and light. The main character, Beowulf, is strong because he admits to, and controls the evil in himself. Beowulf allows his weaknesses to become strengths, and so can find good in everything, even sometimes his enemies which seem to be made of pure evil. This shows that his character is very willing to accept differences in others, and is very…

God warns them not to eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil or they will die. Both of them are naked, though that did not occur to them. When the serpent convinced Eve to eat the apple and then Eve corniced Adam their whole view of the world is changed. “Sudden they realize that they are naked and…