Kiranga
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Mover, can be called God or the Supreme Being, if you like. Aquinas never claimed
this was as theatrical as the burning bush that Moses encountered, but it makes
sense.
Mover can or is? Hata huyu anayeandika anajua anasimamia wapi?
Na kwa nini awe God or Supreme Being na si kingine chochote? Hajatuambia, anatulazimisha tu.
Kakuta jani la muembe mlangoni mwake, anasema lazima limeletwa na mtoto. Hatuambii amefikiaje hitimisho hilo, kapata wapi ushahidi wa kusema hilo.
The third proof is called necessity. As important as your boss thinks he is, in reality, the universe would not cease to exist if he ceased to exist—he is not necessary.
But don’t tell him that unless you don’t want that raise you’ve been asking for! No
matter how important, nothing in the world or in the universe is absolutely necessary. Everything is contingent; that means it does not have to exist in order for reality to exist. Only one being is necessary, and that is the Source of being itself, the
Being that keeps everything in existence. Causality and motion merely explain how
something got here, namely, everything is created and has an origin. Necessity and
contingency, on the other hand, show us that something or someone is needed to
keep things going even after they are made. Edison may have invented the light
bulb, but he died, and we still use electric lights well after his death. Electricity is
needed, however, to keep any and all light bulbs working. Think of the Necessary
Being, the Being itself, or the Existence itself (you can even call it God or the
Supreme Being), as the electricity which keeps everything in existence. That which
keeps in existence everything there is, is a necessary being. Everything which
depends on that necessary being is contingent. Head hurt yet?
Bado analazimisha. Anasema kuhusu necessity, lakini hatuambii kwa nini ni lazima hii necessity iwe Mungu mjuzi wa yote, mwenye uwezo wote na upendo wote, na si kanuni za kihesabu za entropy tu?
Hajatuambia kwa nini necessity ni lazima iwe Mungu huyu mwenye contradictions kibao.
The fourth proof is called gradation. There is a hierarchy of being in the universe.
First, at the most fundamental level, even at the subatomic, there is inanimate
matter and energy. It exists, but it is not alive.Then you move up into the food chain
and we have the second level of being: plant life (vegetative). Basic, simple, uncomplicated, plant life carries on three activities: nutrition, growth, and reproduction.
The third level of being, however, is more complicated. While it has the same three
principles, it also has sensation. Animal life is higher than plant life because these
creatures have bodies which transmit information (data) from their senses to their
brains. Though these brains act on instinct, when a sound is heard through their ears
or images are seen by their eyes, animals react as instinct dictates. This fourth level
of being incorporates the first two but goes into a much more sophisticated mechanism. Human life not only consists of nutrition, growth, and reproduction (as does
plant life), and has sense knowledge from the physical body (as does animal life),
but it also involves the ability to reason. Human beings have rational intellects and
free will. While animals act out of instinct, only men and women can make free
choices and base them on reason. When was the last time you saw a hungry dog orcat turn away food just because they were on a diet and needed to lose weight?
Pooch or Kitty will eat out of instinct whenever they are hungry. Human beings can
resist hunger and freely choose to diet. The beings above humans are angels. These
are beings which, unlike us, are not body and soul. They are pure spirit. They have
intellect and will, like we do, but they are not limited by physical bodies which can
feel hunger, pain, cold, heat, sickness, and death. Angels cannot die since they are
spiritual beings with no mortal bodies to hinder them. The last and highest level of
being, however, is not angelic but divine. Angels may not die, but they were created.
They are limited and finite, while the fullness of being is God. He is the highest, the
Supreme Being. God has no beginning and no end. God always existed. Since He is
everywhere (omnipresent) and knows everything (omniscient) and can do anything
(omnipotent), He is the pinnacle and zenith of being itself.
Hii gradation ina prove kwamba God does not exist. Ntatumia physics.
1. God is said to be the most perfect state of being.
2. In Physics, perfection is measured by entropy, the more entropy a state has, the more imperfect it is, the less entropy it has, the more perfect it is.
3.The most perfect state of being, by entropy, is nothingness, once you deviate from nothingness, you are no longer perfect.
4. The perfect God is nothingness. Nothing in actual fact.
5. God does not exist.
The fifth and last proof is called governance. This has nothing to do with city hall,
Parliament, Congress, or the White House. Something or someone with intelligence
created a world and a universe which operates on intelligent and rational laws and
principles. Whether you believe in Creationism or subscribe to a form of evolution,
you recognize that there is a systematic plan upon which reality operates. The laws
of physics and chemistry were not created by scientists; they were discovered by
them. Those laws apply equally in any country and on any planet. Governance
merely means an intelligent Being created the intelligent laws and systems that
maintain order and prevent chaos. That Governor can be called God.
Need an aspirin now? No one ever claimed these five proofs would convert an
atheist overnight. They do show, however, that the existence of God can be known
by reason. The pagan Romans and ancient Greeks, for example, among many other
peoples, figured out there was a supreme being even without having that deity
reveal himself. Yet that is the limit of human reason. We can only know that there
is a God. To know God and not just know about Him involves faith. Faith allows you
to believe in the truths revealed by God. Reason helps make some sense of that, but
much of the mystery of religion does not contradict reason; rather, it goes beyond
the limitations of human reason. Then you just have to believe.
If an all loving, all powerful and all knowing God created the universe, why did this God allow evil to exist, while he could have created a world in which evil cannot exist?
I haven't seen the answer to this question.