Questions tagged [theories-of-god]
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Evil God Challenge: What if an evil god is just trolling humanity and that explains why there's good in the world?
I've been reading up on the idea of there being an evil god. There's a lot of interesting arguments but I haven't come across anyone mentioning this argument: that all the goodness in the world is ...
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Why are modern philosophers so reluctant to discuss the Creator and the process of Creation? [closed]
I would like to understand why people become so defensive as soon as philosophical discussion gets into the areas covering things beyond our known reality.
Why do questions related to God or other '...
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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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For Agnostic philosophers, 'God' is a placeholder for anything that science can not explain? [closed]
Bertrand Russell: As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as
an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive
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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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Why can't God be limited? [closed]
As far as I understand, many religions claim that God is perfect and unlimited in (almost) any way (e.g. the Christian God is often described as omniscient, omnibenevolent, omnipotent, omnipresent, ......
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What did Marcus Aurelius mean when he said, ". . . we can learn how man has contact with God"?
This is from Book 2, Meditation 12 (Maxwell Staniforth's translation):
We should apprehend, too, the nature of death; and that if only it be
steadily contemplated, and the fancies we associate with ...
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