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1.Response 2The Free Will Theodicy concludes that free will comes from the perfect in a human after the suffering of evil, and the free will in a human is afflicting from evil. In my own words, I would say that the Free Will Theodicy describes how a person who decides the choices they make are willing to learn from the bad ones that result from the free will they are given. Miller says that his perspective of the Free Will Theodicy is,“He [God] must value freedom so much that all the bad results that come from the decisions creatures freely make, still leave it a better world, in his eyes, than one without free creatures” (28), and he focuses more on the learning outcome of the free will. In Gretchen’s objection, he questions why God would create us with having free will but with all of our negative characteristics. In this sense, he is concluding that if he gives us all the power to have free will why would we be lazy or jealous?

2. Response 3The Cosmological Argument briefly states that since there are noncontingent things in life, the contingent things in life can be explained from that one non-contingent thing, such as God. Furthermore since there are contingent things in life there must be a God. This contingent goes on and on with its efforts to be owed to something else, it is an ongoing rewind of an owed chain. I think one of the biggest objections of this argument would be what if there are more than one necessary things? 3. Response 1-

The Cosmological Argument argues that contingent things in life are there from a non-contingent thing, such as a God. After studying the Cosmological Argument, I have concluded that the logical demonstration of an existence or nonexistence of a supreme being can be rationally described through necessity existence and religious rationalism. The necessity existence is, “The necessarily existent is the existent, which when posited as not existing, an absurdity results. The possibly existent is the one that, when posited as either existing or not existing, no absurdity results”(II.1, pg. 211), summarizing that when the existent is positioned to be not existing an outbreak occurs. When saying there is not a God, or supreme being, an absurdity occurs, which is negative and ridiculous. On the other hand, when the possibility is up in the air, not saying there is no existence of a God, no outbreaks of ridiculousness occur. Everything is peaceful when there is not a question about God. That being said, the logical demonstration of an existence in this case, God or a supreme being is, is rationally explained. Religious rationalism can be an objection since not all positions have a God that exists or are not rationally demonstrated. For example, Atheism does not have a God that exists or can be rationally demonstrated. Religious rationalism is the only position that can rationally demonstrate that God does exist. There are three outputs that help make this rational, such as tradition, experiences, and scriptures/ readings. Traditions helps demonstrate the existence or nonexistence of a supreme being because it is a given word or action passed down from generations. It being passed down for so long, it makes it a more reliable piece of information to believe. Also with tradition, usually the people following the tradition are all living around each other, or they only hangout with each other, making it easier to follow. Personal experiences and testimonies go hand and hand with that, anyone who has had those experiences can share them

with the followers or believers. A testimony is more of a serious declaration or religious encounterment, a lesson learned or received from the God or supreme being. In most testimonies, if a lesson is not learned sometimes there is a physical result or healing. There are many testimonies in the Bible that Christians learn from and abide by. The last and I think best piece of rational evidence to believe in an existence of God or a supreme being, would be scripture. Christians and Jews, and also other religions use the Bible, which is a book of scriptures that tell the stories of the Old Testament and New Testament. Through the Bible are different chapters that tell different stories of how Jesus helped others and gained disciples. Christians base their beliefs off of the information in this holy bookThere is also the Quran that Muslims use, and also many other religions use their own scripture texts as evidence. I think scripture is the biggest rational source of information given to demonstrate if a supreme God is existence or not because it is the most logical sense of information given. Through tradition, testimonies, and scriptures, logical demonstrations of supreme figures can be demonstrated. Overall, religious rationalism and necessity existence logically demonstrate the existence of a God....