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Are certain kinds of gods more likely than others? Is this question meaningful? [closed]

Is it meaningful to talk about the likelihood of different kinds of gods, and in what sense a particular kind of god is more likely than another? For example, one can imagine different kinds of “gods” ...
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How does God know things if He is immaterial? [closed]

In our material reality, made of composite beings, knowledge appears to correspond to storage in or interaction with a physical substance (e.g., memory stored in the brain). If God is immaterial and ...
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Is god having attributes that are infinite simpler than having finite attributes? [closed]

In his book The Existence of God, Richard Swinburne compares infinite “values” to any specific numerical value, claiming that the specific numerical value (say the speed of light) “cries out for an ...
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What are some arguments to answer the God Of The Gaps Problem? [closed]

If we were to assume that there is a necessary being, what are some arguments that will logically declare that the necessary being is certainly God. Necessary Being is a being that has to exist, ...
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Is observation the only way to indicate that God is real?

I'm having trouble thinking of any evidence that would make it reasonable to believe in god and I can't wrap my head around it. I can definitely think of examples that would make it seem super obvious ...
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If a loving God existed, would it be reasonable to expect Him to interact more directly with people than He appears to?

I can't recall a time when God—if He exists—has ever approached me in a clear and discernible way. If a loving God were real, wouldn't it make sense for Him to interact with us more directly? Imagine ...
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What is the Theistic response for Necessary being has conscious or not? [duplicate]

In the Argument of Contingency (Leibniz and Aquinas Cosmological Argument) and Ontological Argument, it is argued that necessary being exists and they claim Necessary being is God. My question is Why ...
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Is the law of excluded middle sufficient motivation to accept P3 of this argument?

Recently I was arguing with a buddy who provided this derivation of the Kalam cosmological argument. P1: Everything that begins to exist has a cause. P2: The universe began to exist. C1: The universe ...
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Does God or a non-physical Necessary Being have to be omni-potent?

If the Necessary Being was non-physical but not an abstract object either, does it have to be omnipotent. Also, what is the relationship between omnipotence and the modal argument?
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Can something other than God be necessary being(other than abstract objects), like non-physical metaphysically systems?

In the Leibnizian and Aquinas Cosmological argument(contingency), it is mentioned that there is 2 types of beings, one is contingent and the other one is necessarey being. Theists usually say if there ...
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What is the Theistic response for claiming something other than God is necessary?

In the Argument of Contingency and Leibnizian Cosmological Argument, it is said that there is two types of beings which are necessary and contingent. Some argue that some necessary state can be an ...
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Are the concepts of omniscience and omnipotence contradictory? [duplicate]

Theistic religions believe in a God or Gods. Do religions that claim their God is omniscient and omnipotent face a contradiction in this conception? I'll explain my reasoning. If God is omniscient, he ...
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How can God gives us free will and yet be the creator and originator of everything at the same time? [closed]

Religious people say we have free will in that god has the knowledge of whatever will happen but he doesn't cause our actions, we have a choice. I did an act of sin out of my own choice; god was only ...
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If we assume God exists, why isn't He doing something about all the wars and suffering on Earth? Is there a plan behind His reasoning? [duplicate]

Just so you know, I'm religious, I'm Christian. However, that doesn't stop me from wondering about this question. I'm sure someone must have asked a similar question before, so I'm sorry if I'm boring ...
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Are agent explanations better than non agent explanations?

Suppose you were using a telescope and zooming into Jupiter on the surface and saw a rock that had a face that looked very very much like your great grand mother. Suppose that it was very detailed to ...
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Why is Dawkins not respected amongst philosophers?

After reading peoples’ opinions of Dawkins over the years where he is known to be arrogant and brash, I decided to actually delve into what he says and watch some of his videos and read some of his ...
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What is the state-of-the-art of formal definitions of God?

Isn't the only formal analytic definition of God, that of Cantor's Absolute Infinity? What is the state-of-the-art of this approach? Are there other definitions?
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Does the argument from order apply to God?

Lots of people consider the universe to be too complex, ordered, structured, and too advanced to have come about, without a designer. However, isn’t God the most complex, ordered, structured, and the ...
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Do the Abrahamic faiths solve the argument from evil?

There is the proposition that if evil exists in the world then how could an omnipotent, omnipresent God allow that evil to happen. The Abrahamic faiths propose that God created the garden of Eden ...
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Proof of the existence of God?

Here it is, the long-awaited proof for the existence of God (for your consideration). I have taken the liberty of defining discretely what God is, without which there is no question to be answered (...
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How can we exist?

Positing that God exists and is perfect (by the fact that he is the moral authority and is thought of as absolute perfection according to the general consensus); a change that he makes would mean that ...
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Does it make sense to consider God meaning is 0? [closed]

Foreword: Mathematics is science, that can prove or disprove everything. That is the meaning of Mathematics, prove or disprove any statement. When somebody say something, that something are statements ...
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Moral arguments against dystheism (in the spirit of James Rachels)

Here's my almost-twenty-years-old memory of Rachels' argument (I read it in an introduction-to-ethics class at a community college): If God existed, there would be a being more important, morally, ...
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If God is an immaterial being, is it impossible for Him to exist?

Most people, even atheists, often at least recognize the possibility that God may exist but claim that it is very improbable. But if God is defined as an immaterial being, is the notion of that even ...
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Does probability require a beginning? Can it apply to eternal things like god?

When it comes to the probability of something coming into fruition, a number is calculated based upon the future. The probability of a dice landing on 6 means that if one were to roll a dice in the ...
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How can God exist but allow such suffering and inequality? [duplicate]

I know this question may be have been asked innumerable times over the last 4,000 years but I'm curious to see how serious theists reconcile God's existence with the horrible suffering that a very ...
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Does Omnipotence of God imply nonexistence of physical laws

I have already asked a similar question about omniscience of God implying determinism. I was corrected by people that this is actually fatalism and that there are different forms of omniscience. Here ...
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Justifying God's existence by our existence

I have a friend that claims to be theist because they exist and it's extremely unlikely for them (and the Universe, their experience of life, etc.) to exist. They say that it would be simpler (for ...
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Is Andalusi/Rasmussen's proof for the existence of God correct?

Summary of his argument: Every limited thing's existence has a cause. The universe is limited. Therefore, the universe's existence must have a cause. Now, naturally, the question arises: what caused ...
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Can someone formulate John Pollack's argument in understandable terms for laymen?

http://www.strongatheism.net/library/atheology/ontological_argument_for_nonexistence/ By the way, I am not asking whether this argument is sound or not. I just want to have it formulated in ...
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Is there any ackonowledgement and solution for the objection raised on ontological argument using problem of evil?

Ontological Argument, in its initial verison as presented by Anselm of Canterbury is as follows, The first ontological argument in Western Christian tradition[i] was proposed by Saint Anselm of ...
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Question about the Thomistic view of God's attributes

According to Thomism, God's essence must be identical with his attributes, lest God has real attributes he is dependent upon for his being and "compose" his essence, compromising God's ...
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Is it a contradiction to believe God is both transcendent and omnipresent?

From a classical theistic perspective, God both transcends time and space, yet is also present everywhere. But how can God be both outside time and space and yet be present everywhere?
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Does Actus Purus (pure act) necessitate that God is his attributes / God has no real attributes

If Actus Purus is true, does this mean that God is his attributes (his essence is identical to his attributes) or that God has no real attributes (simply virtually predications of the one essence). If ...
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How can an omnipotent god ever find out that he is omnipotent? Isn't it logically impossible for him to understand?

Let us assume that an omnipotent god exists. He by definition can do anything that is logically possible. So if it is logically possible to prove that a being is omnipotent then an omnipotent god can ...
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Before claiming prophethood,X was famous for being truthful among his people,so that is one of the proof that he is a prophet?

some people who believe in the prophethood and divine inspiration of specific individuals ,use this argument,as one of the arguments,that proves that their believe in such individuals is legitimate ...
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Why would belief in God (assuming God exists) with an untrue worldview count as belief in God to God?

Let's say someone believes says they believe in "you", but when asked about details they say you exist on a planet made of bubblegum, you are friends with these people you actually hate, ...
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What are the best rebuttals for this argument against God's existence?

I would like to preface this question with two pieces of information so as to minimalize confusion. First, I am in no way a Theist myself, as I have put in nowhere near enough time, research, or ...
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Was the ancient Jewish concept of God utterly unique? [closed]

I hope it's ok to post this on Philosophy S.A. It's really a question of the philosophical view of God. Was the ancient Jewish (Abrahamic/Mosaic) view of 1 "true" god, faceless, formless, ...
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The name of a particular philosophy

I was wondering what is the philosophy name that approves God's existence if this belief brings about peace and calm in our lives. This philosophy neither accepts the existence of a heavenly creature /...
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If Non-existence is nonexistent, then does that mean a Supernatural Exists?

Ok, what I am asking is bascially, if non-existence (which I use synonymously with the word 'nothing' - this is my defintion of 'nothing' in this piece - non-existence, so please no dcitionary ...
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Having finite knowledge, could we prove that God doesn't exist?

It seems to me that in order to prove that God does not exist, we need to be like the God himself: the supreme being, infinite in the knowledge of the universe. If my logic is correct, that sounds ...
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Problems with ontological arguments

In the ontological argument, Anselm assumes that "A being that exists as an idea in the mind and in reality is, other things being equal, greater than a being that exists only as an idea in the ...
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Why thank God for good things, but not blame God for bad things?

Why should one thank God for good things but not blame God for bad things? Why is it common for theists to do so? Rationally speaking, it seems one should both thank and blame, or do neither; this is ...
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Evidence for Nature works under direction of God?

I have read from somewhere¹ and it sounds very right, that Nature works under supervision of God. However problem with this, may be that it seems unfalsifiable. What would be nature like with ...
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Principle of proportionate causality → the most eminent cause is intelligent?

In Five Proofs of the Existence of God, Edward Feser mentions the principle of proportionate causality: whatever is in some effect must in some way or other be in the cause, even if not always in the ...
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