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The wise decision is to wager that God exists, since "If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing", meaning one can gain eternal life if God exists, but if not, one will be no worse off in death than if one had not believed. On the other hand, if you bet against God, win or lose, you either gain nothing or lose everything.
The argument from love is an argument for the existence of God that suggests the depth, complexity, and universality of love point to a transcendent source or purpose. Arguments from love to the existence of God
It is one of the works which he published under his own name, as opposed to his more famous "pseudonymous" works. Works of Love deals primarily with the Christian conception of agape love, in contrast with erotic love or preferential love given to friends and family. Kierkegaard uses this value/virtue to understand the existence and ...
Because God ruled the universe through Love, prayer to God and the application of Love would lead to true happiness. [9] The Middle Ages, with their vivid sense of an overruling fate, found in Boethius an interpretation of life closely akin to the spirit of Christianity.
6. “First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.” 7. “It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.”
The roots of the classical philosophy of love go back to Plato's Symposium. [3] Plato's Symposium digs deeper into the idea of love and bringing different interpretations and points of view in order to define love. [4] Plato singles out three main threads of love that have continued to influence the philosophies of love that followed.
In the New Testament, agape refers to the covenant love of God for humans, as well as the human reciprocal love for God; the term necessarily extends to the love of one's fellow human beings. [3] Some contemporary writers have sought to extend the use of agape into non-religious contexts.
God's love is taught to be part of his own essence, and his love for his creatures gives them their material existence, divine grace and eternal life. [ 2 ] The BaháΚΌí teachings state that human love is directed towards both God and other humans; that the love of God attracts the individual toward God, by purifying the human heart and ...