• existence of God is a subject of debate in theology and the philosophy of religion. A wide variety of arguments for and against the existence of God can...
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    Existence is the state of having being or reality in contrast to nonexistence and nonbeing. Existence is often contrasted with essence: the essence of...
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    the belief that the existence of God is unknown or unknowable. Some theists view knowledge concerning God as derived from faith. God is often conceived...
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  • Atheism (redirect from Nonexistence of God)
    spectrum of theistic probability—the likelihood that each assigns to the statement "God exists". Before the 18th century, the existence of God was so accepted...
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  • Transcendental Argument for the existence of God (TAG) is a transcendental argument that attempts to prove the existence of God, i. e. it attempts to prove...
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  • Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, of the divine or the supernatural is unknown or unknowable. Another definition provided is...
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  • The Existence of God is a 1979 book by British philosopher of religion Richard Swinburne, claiming the existence of the Abrahamic God on rational grounds...
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  • ontological basis, that is advanced in support of the existence of God. Such arguments tend to refer to the state of being or existing. More specifically, ontological...
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    existence of God. The original title for this discourse was to be Faith Seeking Understanding. The Proslogion marked what would be the beginning of Saint...
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    Udayana (category Philosophers of Mithila)
    philosopher and logician of the tenth century of the Nyaya school who attempted to devise a rational theology to prove the existence of God using logic and counter...
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    "a god," rather than "God". The Latter Day Saint movement teaches Christ's pre-existence as the first and greatest of the spirit children of God the...
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  • argument for the existence of God or, more generally, that complex functionality in the natural world which looks designed is evidence of an intelligent...
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  • Apatheism (redirect from God Apatheism)
    (/ˌæpəˈθiːɪzəm/; a portmanteau of apathy and theism) is the attitude of apathy toward the existence or non-existence of God(s). It is more of an attitude rather than...
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  • Monotheism (redirect from One God)
    belief that one god is the only deity. A distinction may be made between exclusive monotheism, in which the one God is a singular existence, and both inclusive...
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  • argument, in natural theology, is an argument which claims that the existence of God can be inferred from facts concerning causation, explanation, change...
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    connection between the idea of God and God's appearance or disappearance. No statement about God whatsoever may establish God's existence. Kant makes a distinction...
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  • content to prove the existence of God, while the professor tried to prove the non-existence of God. The students became aware of facts they were not familiar...
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  • the existence of such a gene would not be incompatible with the existence of a personal God: "Religious believers can point to the existence of God genes...
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  • and God include the use of mathematics in arguments about the existence of God and about whether belief in God is beneficial. In the 1070s, Anselm of Canterbury...
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  • of evil is the philosophical question of how to reconcile the existence of evil and suffering with an omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and omniscient God....
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    completely infinite in all of his attributes, who has no partner or equal, being the sole creator of everything in existence. In Judaism, God is never portrayed...
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  • problem of the creator of God is the controversy regarding the hypothetical cause responsible for the existence of God, on the assumption God exists....
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  • in nature. In The God Delusion he focuses directly on a wider range of arguments used for and against belief in the existence of a god (or gods). Dawkins...
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  • Deism (category Philosophy of religion)
    More simply stated, Deism is the belief in the existence of God (often, but not necessarily, a God who does not intervene in the universe after creating...
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    Baruch Spinoza (redirect from Spinoza's God)
    contemporaries, although nowhere in his work does Spinoza argue against the existence of God. This can be explained by the fact that, unlike contemporary 21st-century...
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    Existentialism is a form of philosophical inquiry that explores the issue of human existence. Existentialist philosophers explore questions related to...
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    Tawhid (redirect from Oneness of God)
    success and worth to other than God, as this is seen as making an idol of the self. The Quran teaches the existence of a single and absolute truth that...
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    limited state of the unlimited existence of God's absolute singularity. All existence emanates from and rests on God independently of time, for God is the timeless...
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    Aseity (redirect from Aseity of God)
    being exists of and from itself. It refers to the Monotheistic belief that God does not depend on any cause other than himself for his existence, realization...
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  • that gaps in scientific understanding are regarded as indications of the existence of God. This perspective has its origins in the observation that some...
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