HUME’S IDEA IN RELATION TO THE REJECTION OF THE NATURE AND EXISTENCE OF GOD.

SUMMARY

The focus of this chapter has been to answer the question of the meaningfulness of religious languages used by religious adherents to explain the reality of God’s existence and whether the existence of God can be proved. This task started as a result of the critic by some religious skeptics who claimed that the problems that are embedded in religious languages render the task of theology useless to the domain of knowledge. Among others, the major problem to these religious languages as I stated earlier is the problem of verification. In addressing this problem therefore, Wittgenstein’s idea of Language Game serves as the best option to be considered and also the five ways Aquinas’ in proving the existence of God. In summation, this chapter concludes that religious language has its own logic, and possesses its own distinct features used in providing solutions to some fundamental and perplexed questions. Such question include, the question about the ultimate meaning of human life, death and its significance if any, how can there be a good God in an evil world of suffering and pain, sickness, failure, et cetera. With this in mind therefore, the actual use of a particular religious language should be found within the same religion.