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| Apr 18, 2018 at 21:15 | history | edited | elliot svensson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 18, 2018 at 14:07 | comment | added | elliot svensson | The answer I copy-pasted here from a book that I read is from a discipline in Christianity called "natural theology", where a Christian attempts to use inductive reasoning about the universe and himself to find true qualities of God. None of the sentences in John Piper's list of qualities-of-God are intended to result from any kind of written or verbal scripture, although I think he would freely acknowledge that he wouldn't have written something contrary to Christian scripture: the New Testament and the Old Testament of the Bible. | |
| Apr 18, 2018 at 13:59 | comment | added | RodolfoAP | All assertions on this post are highly subjective and debatable. I don't agree with each and anyone of them. Saying "God doesn't exist" has the same value: the statement is valid many people. Anyway, this has no relation with the question. | |
| Apr 17, 2018 at 17:37 | comment | added | elliot svensson | It also doesn't deal with polytheism, pantheism, or mysticism. This is the Christian notion of God which is pretty common for English-speakers theistic and atheistic (and agnostic), due to England's Christian past. | |
| Apr 17, 2018 at 14:14 | comment | added | MichaelK | All fine and well, but the question was for a broad and encompassing definition, not one that is exclusive for one particular religion, and one thay is heavily coloured by religioius language specific for that religion. Assume that whoever uses the definition that is being requested is not a member of a religion whose god is being gagued by the definition. | |
| Apr 17, 2018 at 14:09 | comment | added | elliot svensson | That's why I said that it was written by a Christian writer. | |
| Apr 17, 2018 at 14:06 | comment | added | MichaelK | This has a very Christian perspective. And it does little to deal with for instance humans that are given a divine status, like emperor Hirohito. There are also qualities in this that clashes with for instance the Olympian gods. | |
| Apr 17, 2018 at 13:34 | history | answered | elliot svensson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |