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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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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Is it fair to say that the battle between Good and Evil is essentially a battle between two different philosophies? [closed]
For those who believe in the theology that is God is real and that the Devil is also real, and the eternal battle between Good and Evil began with the Devil and the fallen angels rebelling against God ...
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Is there any surprising coincidence that God solves? [duplicate]
In the case of fine tuning, does God really explain the improbability of the right constants being chosen for life? I’m failing to see how “God wanted the constants to be so” tells us why a particular ...
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Can God transcend human logic and reasoning?
Apophatic theology holds that God is so far beyond human comprehension that He can only be described in negative terms.
The "problem of the creator of God" posits that if everything requires ...
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Is theism more complex than naturalism even if god is simple? [closed]
A lot of the debate in philosophy is about whether or not god is simple.
Why does this matter? Let’s say god is the simplest being that you can imagine.
Under naturalism, you still have the physical ...
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Could God be a natural being? [closed]
Could God be a Being who perhaps through evolution or some other mechanism was generated through physical laws and thus still interacts with the world. If anything can be created given enough time, ...
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Was Gödel actually convinced that his ontological proof was correct?
The proof is obviously logically valid, but it is as obvious that it isn't logically sound.
For instance, the second axiom states that ¬P(φ) ⟺ P(¬φ), take φ(x) ⟺ x is a male human being. Then either ...
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Why can’t God just be replaced by a naturalistic alternative and end the god debate? [closed]
Where-ever God is posited to explain anything, such as the origin of life, the origin of the universe, fine tuned constants, religious experiences, etc. why can’t we simply assume that if there is a ...
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In the Contingency argumemt it is referenced that alternative having things can not be necessary, whats the alternative in here can be considered as?
In the Argument of Contingency there is referenced that if something has alternatives, that thing can't be necessary because of it could be something different than what it is, so is this information ...
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Is belief in god considered a matter of faith or reason in philosophy?
Everything happens for some reason or none. If it happens for no reason, there’s nothing to inquire about. If it happens for some reason, surely it seems simpler to believe that it happened for some ...
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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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How can religious conception of choice be consistent with the notion of omnipotent, all powerful God? [duplicate]
Religious people say we have free will in that god has knowledge of whatever will happen but he doesn't make us do sin. I did an act of sin out of my own choice; god was just already aware of the ...
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What is the reason behind the fourth axiom in Gödel's ontological proof?
In Gödel's ontological proof, axiom 4 goes like this:
And I'm not sure about what it means. If that P(φ) is true, then isn't it necessarily true as well? There's some basic concept about modal logic ...
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If God existed, would He exist for no reason?
Why would He exist rather than something else such as a godless universe or simply nothing? How have theologians tried to answer this question in the past?
I have read that because God is eternal or ...
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Are there versions of theism or supernaturalism that offer testable predictions?
Theism and supernaturalism often draw criticism for their perceived lack of a practical framework capable of generating testable predictions. In contrast, physical theories like general relativity and ...
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