The Virtue of Faith

Introduction

The Story Virtue of Faith is writing of Robert Adams he is renowned as a leader in giving contemporary philosophy idea that has moral obligations and it may be founded on the command of God. The collection of Adams essay, draws from his widespread writing on philosophical theology that argue metaphysically, epistemologically, and ethically with surrounding the concept of God (Cessario, p.54-65). And he believed that believing in the God is a great thing and it is seen as virtue and non believers are said to be doing Sin. The Paper discusses on two sections answering the Questions.

Wood provide convincing grounds for accepting Clifford's principle

Wood describes as the one quality of God that is perhaps abstract and that is also mentioned frequently is God's holiness. But even that at first takes concrete expression in the rituals specified in the Pentateuch: We can see that holiness means otherness, separation from the ordinary. Later this is further concretized in the temple and the vision of transcendence at its dedication. Later still, the prophetic witness shows that God's holiness is ultimately moral and linked to the concept of righteousness and justice. It is in the light of this we can understand earlier anthropomorphic terms such as anger and jealousy (Adams, P.150-172).

Similarly the revelation of God as love is through the loving care manifested historically in the covenant relationship of God with a chosen people. This is recorded as it happens in the Bible, being celebrated in the Psalms as song. Typical terms for it are mercy, compassion, and blessing. The prophetic witness, especially of Isaiah, relies upon historical evidence to support this revelation of God's nature. According to Clifford's principle, Isaiah 40-66 is one of the high points for God's revelation of himself. In the New Testament, this love is again seen revealed materially, both in the nature of Jesus Christ as pure loving action and in Christ as God's gift to mankind as their redeemer.

This latter term, Redeemer, is a good example of language that begins as figurative and ends as a theological concept. The redeemer-kinsman of the Hebrew Bible had a role to play in saving members of his family. God is seen as that Redeemer. In the New Testament the role is performed by the Son, but the word is not used as such, since its original metaphoric force has been lost. Instead the cognate forms of Redemption and Redeemed are used as theological signifiers of salvation.

God is provident, which means that God exercises control over everything, in accordance with complete knowledge, in order to fulfill the divine plan for the world. But we human beings also do many things every day, exercising limited control over some parts of the world, in accordance with limited knowledge, in order to fulfill our limited plans for ourselves (Alston, p.102-145).

Faith, understood by Robert Adams

Faith is an ambiguous term. In common parlance means a belief in something. Positions, the view at any given time (the present state of knowledge of science) ...