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[논문] THE ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD IN CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS (영문) (16)
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2022-07-08 20:11:17, 조회 : 787 |
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Paul Jang
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공유 대상: 전체 공개
A DEMONSTRATION OF GOD AND THE ARGUMENTS
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF CHRISTIAN GOD IN CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS (16)
by Dr. Paul B. Jang (Ph.D, Christian Apologetics) (영문) ✝✝✝
CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF THE LITERATURES:
PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK OF
THE CONCEPTS AND EXISTENCE OF GOD
HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL SURVEY
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 of Greece myth.
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, Lectures in Systematic Theology, 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. 💟💟💟
- To be continued -
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