Questions tagged [theology]
Theology is the field of study and analysis that treats of God and of God's attributes and relations to the universe; the study of divine things or religious truth; divinity.
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Is my analysis of Dawkins' fallacies correct?
I have been analyzing arguments made by prominent atheists and looking for logical fallacies. I am new at this. Are my analyses correct?
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“The All Time best arguments against religion/faith #2 (...
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What does mean “realitas objectiva” in scholastic ontology?
Descartes uses the term in his third meditation (Med. III) to demonstrate the existence of God, see a previous question.
The term “realitas objectiva” is a technical term from scholastic ontology.
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Thomas Aquinas objection against the Ontological-Argument
St. Thomas Aquinas argue that because God is an all-powerful being, we couldn’t not possible evaluate or conceive his nature; this is one objection against Anselm’s ontological argument for the ...
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Can an immaterial being not be conscious?
Is it possible for an immaterial being or object with causal powers to not be conscious? Or is this a contradiction?
The only immaterial being I can conceive of to have causal powers is a conscious, ...
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Does God create fresh souls, or are our souls a part of God? [closed]
With the premise that we have souls and the premise that the soul of God is eternal.
If God's soul is eternal, are the parts of that soul eternal too. If we are parts of that whole soul, then are we ...
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Is science possible in a world where a god acts?
Consider a world equipped with a god; and this god from time to time at his convenience and no other, acts in the world; and then too, that those beings who live in the world see these acts as ...
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In what way can theism and science co-exist?
Probably the most cliche question ever, but I never got a good answer so I'll ask it anyway:
How can science and theism co-exist? Even if we forget that the two have entirely different ideas about how ...
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Omnipotence Paradox Defense and Meinongianism/Neo-Meinongianism
I was considering a solution to the omnipotence paradox in which excluding logical impossibilities from the definition of omnipotence is justified as follows. Consider the proposition, "God could ...
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Proof verification of god existence theorem
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My question was closed on math stack exchange. They advised me to post it here, but due to the lack of LaTeX formatting, I had to upload it as images. Apologies for that.
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How does a necessary being fully explain contingent beings?
X contingent <=> there is W s.t. W -> S, where "->" is derivation, not material implication
X necessary <=> X not contingent
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If God is omnipotent, can he make self-contradictory objects?
If God is omnipotent by definition, can he make self-contradictory objects such as colorless green ideas or something that exists and doesn't exist at the same time or long short objects.
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If the universe has a beginning does that prove God exists?
It is curious to note that a eminent Physicist like Stephen Hawking thinks the universe has a beginning. This has some rather startling Religious implications
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Can you mathematically prove the existence of God?
So I came across this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0hxb5UVaNE), which claims to prove the existence of God using math.
I then searched and found stuff like this: mathematician Kurt Gödel's ...
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Is the design answer to fine-tuning sufficiently complete?
If the problem of "fine tuning for life" (SEP) is that the precise value of some constants (and laws) in physics seems necessary to the emergence of life in our universe but at the same time ...
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Are there any publications that attempt to give a formal ontological definition of the Christian Trinity?
Are there any publications in the field of Philosophy of Religion that have attempted to provide a formal ontological definition of the Christian God as portrayed by the doctrine of the Trinity?
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Asserting that Atheism and Theism are both faith based positions
I am recently testing an assertion that I have concluded namely that atheism is a faith based position just like theism is a faith based position.
The reason I arrived at this conclusion is that ...
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What is the reason for a god to create the world? [closed]
For the sake of the argument I make the assumption that the Jewish god Jahwe or gods from other religions like Brahma, Vishnu or Shiva actually exist and that one of them created the world.
Why did ...
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Pascal, Pensee #3 and a counterargument to natural theology
Here is the text of Pascal's Pensees No. 3 (in the Krailsheimer translation):
'There is change and succession in all things.' 'You are wrong, there is . . .' 'Why, do you not say yourself that the ...
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Is Abrahamic God a creature? [closed]
Is God (as YHWH/IEUE, or Allah, etc.) a being because he represents his name from this reality, or because he has the potential to represent his name from other realities?
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Must an omniscient being also be omnipotent? [duplicate]
In my opinion,yes.
Since you are omnipotent,you are greatest in all qualities and incomperable,which means if there is someone else omniscient (greatest in term of knowledge),you aren't omnipotent.
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How can one not believe in god as the root cause of the universe?
How can you lack belief in the existence of god?
I define god here as prime cause. As the world is a sum of collections of events, causally linked to the past through time, then there must be a ...
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Argument for God from quantum mechanics [closed]
The argument that my friend proposed is as follows.
1.) Quantum mechanics proposes inherent randomness. This implies a lack of determinism and thus a true probability of every event.
2.) If God exists,...
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Should proofs of God involve the infinitary language ℒ(∞,∞)?
If God is an infinite being (per Scotus, say), and if no finite number of steps in an argument is adequate to the scope of the divine majesty, then the strictures of monadic theism aside (God as a ...
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Does cosmological argument prove that anything that exists has a cause of its existence?
Does the cosmological argument "prove that anything that exists has a cause of its existence", or is that just a premise of the argument?
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Does the private language argument conflict with monotheism?
This blog post opposes the PLA to unitarianism (the belief in only one divine person), which is mostly a parochial, intra-Christian objection that, if generalized over other religions, seems like it ...
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Is an omniscient entity self-refuting?
Consider a thought experiment involving 'something' and three individuals attempting to understand it: one person claims it is a red ball, another asserts it is a simulation, and the third insists it ...
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What does it mean for something to “break” infinite regress?
When it comes to the cosmological argument, proponents point out that a first cause is needed to stop an infinite regress of causes.
In epistemology, foundationalism is used to break the infinite ...
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Attributes of God in Spinoza’s “Ethics”
In Spinoza’s Ethics, he remarks that God/Nature has infinitely many attributes. However, in the Ethics, he only identifies and discusses two of these attributes: thought and extension, which account ...
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Would an extremely unified being be able to issue more than one particular command?
Suppose that there is an actus purus, a being that is entirely active, impassible (nothing happens to this being), and which has no proper parts (its only part is itself entirely), not even abstract ...
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Are all explanations either personal or scientific?
In A New Cosmological Argument, Richard Gale and Alexander Pruss offer up a cosmological argument for a personal God, from the weak principle of sufficient reason (among other premises, but the WPSR ...
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Is a miracle the only possible evidence for the supernatural?
Is a literal violation of a current law of nature the only way we can point to a potential divine explanation? This is not to say that a violation of a current law of nature necessarily implies a ...
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Why does an explanation involving a "person" appeal?
If the common source of the natural order and the karmic order is
impersonal, we are still in need of some account of how and why it
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If we can't know whether a divine being exists, would that being be unimportant even if it did exist?
This is what I thought at first (by "objectively important," we mean this in the sense of naive moral realism, at least):
If there were an ultimately powerful, knowledgeable, and good being,...
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Is theism a specific case of deism?
I believe that theism is a specific case of deism, because theists do believe in a god, like deists do. They just also go further and believe that this god is a personal god and does miracles, answers ...
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A quantum mechanical response to van Inwagen's rejection of the PSR
Peter van Inwagen famously rejected the PSR due to his argument that it implied necessitarianism: Take the conjunct C of all contingent facts. Being contingent itself, the PSR demands an explanation F....
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How does one show that a theory that explains only one or a few data points is less likely to be true?
Let’s take the example of a coincidence. Suppose I pray to God to help me win two straight lotteries and I do. It would seem remarkable. From a personal standpoint, it might even seem so remarkable ...
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What is the difference between necessary and in need of no explanation? [closed]
In a paper titled Is our existence in need of further explanation, Carlson argues that our universe, even if fine tuned, and even if granted to have a meaningfully very low probability, does not need ...
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Should you worship god if you don’t like Him but he was proven to be real? [closed]
I’ve seen some atheists casually talk about how they should still not worship the traditional Abrahamic God if He was proven to be real. This is because in their eyes, He is evil.
Many have even said ...
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First order logic and the cosmological argument
The way I see it, the cosmological argument, if one takes into consideration only what has been observed in the universe, goes something like this:
For everything in the universe, if it has a ...
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Is God simple or complex? How does this affect His plausibility?
Theologians have argued that God is simple, atleast in His form. Part of the reasoning behind this is that He takes no form given that He is taken to be immaterial.
At the same time, God is All ...
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How can one measure the reasonableness of god without probability?
What is the probability of god, assuming the concept of god is coherent? Many have argued for a probability. Others, including me, think that the notion of a probability of god is meaningless. This to ...
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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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Can we rule out God as an explanation for the origin of life without knowing a natural explanation?
Is it reasonable to rule out God as an explanation for the mystery of the origin of life even though we do not have a current natural explanation? Note that this is under the assumption that we haven’...
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Why is the notion of life after death taken seriously in philosophy? [closed]
We obviously do know what happens after death. We die and that’s it. Why is there so much literature on this subject in philosophy and why does this concept gain special status?
We have determined, ...
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Implicit Models and Probability - are degrees of belief/truth/existence a complete free-for-all?
Or, to put it another way, as long as you model your statements using the grammatical framework of our modern logical idioms, is it appropriate practice to assign a probability to any utterance at all,...
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Is a god who cares about us more likely to exist than one who doesn’t?
Would it be reasonable to state this is true? Or do we just have no knowledge as to what kind of god or gods could exist?
What I find curious is that without this assumption, some of the traditional ...
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Is consciousness requiring a brain a good inductive argument against god?
The argument is simple.
1.) Every instance of consciousness/intelligence that we’ve observed requires something material
2.) God is assumed to be conscious and intelligent yet immaterial
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Kant's "interpret them as divine commands" remark
I was thinking about the idea of teleological/natural-law ethics as founded in the will of a divine power, and I thought that there would be (A) a purpose that this power had set for Itself alongside (...
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Should the length of time of absence of evidence count as evidence of absence for god?
Imagine a hypothetical universe where 1 million days have gone by.
Imagine another where 1 billion days have gone by.
Assume that in each case, one has found no direct evidence of god operating in the ...
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Does it make sense to consider God meaning is 0? [closed]
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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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