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Are various concepts of divine creation based on more basic/simpler/integrated concepts, or are they indefinitely diverse?
For example, take these four notions:
Creation by rearranging/ordering prime matter (AKA from preexisting substance).
By emanation.𓆉
"From nothing."
Modal "toggling": ...
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Proving God and believing only provable things
This question has two, related, parts.
Part 1.
I recently have been on some discussions regarding proving God exists and proving that Jesus is really the son of God; intertwined with that, there was a ...
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Is faith just a consolation for the common folk?
In reading Dostoevsky, I stumbled upon the perplexing question of faith being a mere consolation. And in spite of considering myself a believer, I still agree to this statement to a certain extent. ...
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What are possible naturalistic explanations to the question of existence?
Non-philosopher here, though I enjoy reading about it. Without getting into complex deductive arguments, suppose I say the following: Define the entities of the material world however one likes (maybe ...
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Are not all atheists' arguments against God pure evasions from the issue itself of God exists or not? [closed]
For example, let any readers here just ask an articulate atheist his argument that God does not exist, and you will notice that he is in his argument not really into arguing but into evading the issue ...
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How can I change Aquinas's Fifth Way to prove there is not one ultimate first designer?
My philosophy textbook was asking to make a reconstruction of his argument to avoid his logical error where he basically says that there is 1 being that makes sure that natural things do their ...
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How would Leibniz respond to this objection to his argument for God's existence?
Leibniz argues for the existence of a necessary being using the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR).
Any contingent fact about the world must have an explanation. (Principle of sufficient reason)
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Is existence essential to God?
Thomas Aquinas said that God was absolute perfect, God being pure actuality and had no potentiality. If there was a time where there wasn't an existence, then God would have a potentiality and not ...
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'Thanks, but no thanks' - God and my existence
Problem: God (in an Abrahamic religion) created me without asking me if I would want this life. Now I don't want this life. If I commit suicide, I will burn in hell for eternity. I just want to cease ...
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Can we logically prove that anything exists?
Suppose I want to prove that negative numbers exist. Well, I could easily do that using a mathematical proof. However, all I would be doing is adding another logical object to a list of known logical ...
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Is it possible that I'm "God" or a special being/deity?
I know the first thing you may be thinking upon reading this, but there's more to this than you may have assumed. This is not one of those crazy questions where ego-driven maniacs simply call ...
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A Critcism of the Ontological Argument for God
Allow me to present the argument:
(1) By definition God is that being which possesses every perfection.
(2) Existence is a perfection.
(3) Therefore, God exists.
Whether you agree is not important,...
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Is "God does not exist; therefore, the argument for God's existence is not sound" fallacious?
The apologetic claims the argument is logically valid by modus tollens. The somewhat detailed version is:
Premise 1. If Argument A for God's existence is sound, then God exists.
Premise 2. But ...
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How to answer the common anti-deity existence argument involving a big rock
There is a common over-used argument ; If some Supreme benevolent Being exists that created everything and can effect anyone's life , the argument is, if this being is 'all-powerful' can the Being ...
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What's the force of Leibniz' worry in "The Ultimate Origin of Things"?
In "The Ultimate Origin of Things," Leibniz' motivates his claim that
nothing in the world could be the ultimate reason for things
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