Abstract Does God trust human persons? Very little in philosophy of religion has been written about God's trust, which seems striking for two joint considerations. First, many the Abrahamic faith traditions posit that union and close personal relationship with is telos life. Second, to be an essential element ideal, relationships between persons. While there much literature emphasizes role on s...

since the word “treasuries” has been mentioned in the koran and hadiths, scholars of the interpretation of the koran and hadiths as well as theologians, philosophers and gnostics have discussed it from several aspects. in this paper, we first interpret it literally, formulating the scholars’ opinions about it; then, we develop the discussion to the “key of treasury” and “treasurers”; finally,  ...

in the process of revelation, divine message is transmitted from the sublime lord and by the prophet to the people. this heavenly message can be considered from several aspects, including that of invitation as a separate category. the present article deals with the linguistic dimension of invitation in the qur’an, specifically in the context of meccan suras. hence, the structure of invitation l...

The Odyssey and King of Oedipus are two enduring masterpieces that examine such timeless themes as fate, free will the role gods in human affairs. Although they both imbued with fatalism, represented differently these works. presents God a guiding force, depicting oracle's predetermination protagonist's fate Odysseus's own review, efforts contract during hero's journey, reflecting balance betwe...

To anyone studying the role of spirituality in Western medicine, the first few lines of the Hippocratic Oath should be of interest: ‘‘I swear by Apollo the Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia and all the gods, and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will fulfill according to my ability and judgment this oath and this covenant.’’ The Oath continues to be uniquely respected a...

This paper addresses the problem of recovering variable-like entities when analyzing executables in the absence of debugging information. We show that variable-like entities can be recovered by iterating Value-Set Analysis (VSA), a combined numeric-analysis and pointer-analysis algorithm, and Aggregate Structure Identification, an algorithm to identify the structure of aggregates. Our initial e...

I provide the account of divine creation found in multiverse theorists Donald Turner, Klaas Kraay, and Tim O’Connor. I show that the accounts Kraay and Turner offer are incoherent. God does not survey all possible worlds and necessarily actualize those universes in the (on balance) good worlds or the worthy worlds. If God necessarily actualizes the multiverse, we have no idea which universes ar...

The term 'The Divine Command Theory of Ethics' is similar to 'The Ontological Argument' in that there is no unique entity deserving of that title. Rather, there is a multiplicity of theories, each of which is appropriately taken to be a divine command theory. The strongest versions are, if not the finest, at least definist. That is, according to these versions moral predicates, such as 'is obli...

the present article studies the quran's view on free will and freedom. some related issues discussed here are: (1) human freedom is the basis of the creation; (2) respecting human freedom is the basis of the prophet's invitation of the people to islam; (3) political freedom is the foundation of forming political societies, and so on. with reference to the quranic verses and moslem sch...