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Existence of God (Negatives Of The Concept Of Existence) (1)
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Existence of God (Negatives Of The Concept Of Existence) (1)
The Negatives Of The Concept Of Existence
The negative proposition of the concept of existence had appeared by Protagoreans and Megarians in the ancient times, and more Nietzsche and Bergson in the present times.
But such various contentions have brought about an uncertain results because their theories were subjectively approached to the concept of existence.
On the contrary to these, it must be presupposition that the right concept of existence can be grasped only by "the speculation depended upon the revelation" which is negative and biblical.
Borden P. Bowne said that the concept of the existence did not allow any concept of comparison to that (Bowne, 1898, 25). In other words, this means it is independent.
The Idea of God in Philosophy and the Bible
In the light of etymological approach, the word "God" (Deos, God) has remained to be unsolved since the word has been appeared in philosophy. It had been discovered in the Teuton language. And Homer, a poet of Greek had already used the "hoi Deoi" (in definite singular) and applied this word to a god, Zeus. The name God in English, Theos in Greek, and Deus in Latin is originally a generic name, including every other member of the class deity (Thiessen, 1976, 52).
The word "God" has been identified with the Hebrew word "Elohim" in the Genesis 1:1 of the Old Testament, and the English word "God" has been derived from the original etymology, "to call" in the sense of the object to which the people called and desired as God, but rather from majesty and authority, although the meaning of the root El is lost in obscruity (Thiessen, 1976, 52).
The concept "Theos" has been divided into Greek concept and the Biblical concept. Greek concept of God has been used to the object of faith, worship, and service, as a common noun, the name of all gods which is abstract, polytheistic, and pantheistic.
But the Biblical concept of God has been used to the object of faith, worship, and service, as the pronoun, the name of the one and only God which is absolutely personal, and it has therefore theistic concept in Christianity. (Wallace, 1990, 253).
As a matter of fact, it is certain that the word "God" is an expression of the name through which the concept of God is revealed because the word "God" could not have been first appeared prior to the idea of God.
Man is born with the concept of God by nature because he was made in the image of God. Therefore, man should naturally obey, worship and serve God. The Bible says, "because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them, for since the creation of the world His invisible attributes. His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse" (Rom. 1:19-10).
This means that man has a religiosity in his heart for the first time since his life. The "heart" is to be the religious root of human existence. This is very important to understand the Christian philosophy.
Herman Dooyeweerd said to understand the central significance of the "heart" to be the religious root of human existence. He confessed as follows:
I came to understand the central significance of the "heart", repeatedly proclaimed by Holy Scripture to be the religious root of human existence. On the basis of this central Christian point of view I saw the need of a revolution in philosophical thought of radical character (Dooyeweerd, 1953, Foreword abbreviated to the first edition).
He called this human heart with the tendency of philosophical thought towards the Origin "the Archimedean point of philosophy" as his starting point of Christian philosophy. He said "The Archimedean point of philosophy and tendency of philosophical thought towards the Origin" (Dooyeweerd, 1953, 8).
He continued to say, "this fixed point from which alone in the course of philosophical thought, we are able to form the idea of the totality of meaning, we call the Archimedean point of philosophy" (Dooyeweerd, 1953, 8).
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