Over history, the human race has striven for truth and understanding logic. Whentrying to understand this, a person approaches the philosophical question,What can I know? With this philosophical question comes the epic battlebetween whether or not a person should base an opinion on empicism orrationalism. I believe that I need to be shown facts and logic to understandsomething, however I also rely on my senses to strengthen my self. First of allempicism is when a person bases what they have seen on pure senses, or when aperson just relies on their five senses to explain what they see around them. However, if a person relies on logic and fact, that person is a rationalist.
Ibelieve that a person should use facts and logic to explain events, simplybecause basing something on sight alone is not reliable, and there is nothing toback up ones theory. There are many instances that support my reason to chooserationalism over empiricism. Take the apparent sightings of UFOs (undefinedflying object) people have claimed to see these objects, yet there is littleevidence that proves their claim. The question arises how can a person provethis? The answer is they cannot because there are not facts or logic that backit up? Nevertheless, there are the evident sightings of the lock nessmonster, which again is only based on empiciam. Since all of sighting arebased on a persons senses. Then, there is the major question of the existenceof god.
I firmly believe that there is a holy God, and this supernatural beingis involved in our every day life. This God is holy and will punish the peoplethat wrong the society, and will praise the goodness. I also believe that thisGod was the creator of the universe, and the reality that we live in today. Thesis: I believe that rational and logical thinking should be used to solveproblems, because 1) Rationalism better explains problems then empiricism, 2)That miracles have reasons and can be explained, in spite of 1) If God is holythen why is there suffering, 2) What evidence proves the existences of God.
Theholy God can explain miracles and other phenomenal events, because everythinghas a reason. Miracles happen to praise the good and helps destroy the bad. Whena person looks closely at the Bible they may see many stories that involvephenomenal events. With this God have miracles take place for a purpose, inorder for the suffering and the bad to be destroyed.
Take for example, Mosesparting the Red Sea, in this phenomenal event he allowed his people to walkthrough the parted Sea. When doing this Moses cleared away the water in orderfor his people to get to the other side, clearly this is a miracle. The storyabout the parting of the Red Sea has several different versions, but isgenerally the same. With this God seems to have miracles happen for a purpose tohelp the good.
In conclusion to this thought I believe that God is the creatorof miracles and phenomenal events. I believe that I am a rationalist and aperson should only rely on logic and facts to understand problems. I believethat when a person thinks with a rational mind they are able to comprehendbetter. Using an empirical mind a person is just focused on their senses andthen that person is limited to just their senses. With this a person cannot usetheir logical mind. Therefore that person is unable to make an accurateassumption.
In conclusion a person should use logical reasoning to solveproblems, because logic can be more accurate then a persons senses. An opponentmight question how can God be holy and yet have all the sufferings in todayssociety. My reason to this objection is that God works in mysterious ways and byhaving suffering now may save people in the long run. For instances if God killsa person now, maybe in a couple years that person took the suffering away frommany others. Also, there is another reason why God would have suffering, is topunish another person for wrongdoing.
God creates sufferings in his world, inorder to help people realize their mistakes so they do not make the samemistakes twice. As a holy God he must punish people for sinning, to help praisethe good citizens as well. Also, another question an opponent mightsuggest is that how do you know there is a God? The Bible is a written documentthat states the there is a God, and it helps better understand the existences ofthe Supreme Being. Also, going back to the thought of miracles, science cannotexplain miracles.
Furthermore there has to be a Supreme Being creating thesemiracles. With these examples, I firmly believe that there is a God, and thisbeing is the creator of the universe.Philosophy
