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God
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(In Christianity and other monotheistic religions) the creator and ruler of the universe and source of all moral authority;the supreme being.In the classic view God is all-knowing,all-powerful,and all-good.
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Blasphemy
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the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God.
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Theism
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belief in the existence of a God or gods.
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Atheism
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a disbelief in the existence of deity.
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Agnosticism
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a person who does not have a definite belief about whether God exists or not.
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Faith
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belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence.
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Classical theism
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This is the concept of God embraced by the major monotheistic religions:Judaism,Christianity,and Islam. God is the creator of the universe,and thus separate from the universe. God is like a person (man is in God's image) but omniscient,omnipotent,and omnibenevolent. God preforms acts miracle.
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Pantheism
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God and nature are one (God is not separate from the universe);God is everywhere. This conception is embraced by some Asian religions,and some romantics.
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Deity
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a god,goddess,or God.
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Cause
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something or someone that produces an effect,result or condition:something or someone that makes something happen.
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Principal of sufficient reason
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The principal of sufficient reason is a powerful and controversial philosophical principle stipulating that everything must a reason or cause.
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Argument of analogy
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arguments by analogy generally are used to support empirical claims which become informing rather than guiding premises in ethical arguments (but see the remarks on reasoning from precedent and relevant differences later). The teleological argument is an argument from analogy. Things that are alike probably have similar properties.
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Omnipotence
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all-powerful
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Omniscient
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all-knowing
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Omnibenevolent
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all-good.
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Monotheism
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the belief there is only one God.
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Polytheism
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belief in or worship more than one god.
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Deism
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belief in the existence of a supreme being,specifically of a one who does not intervene in the universe.
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Free will
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freedom of humans to make choices that are not determined by prior causes or by divine intervention. Humans have the freedom to choose.
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Determinism
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is the philosophical idea that every event or state of affairs,including every human and action,is the inevitable and necessary consequence of previous state of affairs.
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Fatalism
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the doctrine that all events are pre-determined by fate and therefore unalterable.
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Theodicy
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defense of God's goodness and omnipotence in view of the existence of evil.
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Pragmatism
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a practical approach to problems and affairs.
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A priori arguments
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a given proposition is knowable a priori if it can be known independent of any experience of learning the language in which the proposition is expressed.
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Ontological arguments
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it is contradictory claim that God that does not exist.
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A posteriori arguments
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a proposition that is knowable a posteriori is known on the basis of experience.
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Arguments from religious experience
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Our personal experience of God suggest that God exists.
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Cosmological argument
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God provides the best explanation of why the universe exists.
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Teleological argument
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The design and order of nature can best be explained by God existing and playing the role of the designer.
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Pascal's wager
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The expected value of believing in God is positive and large and so it's in our prudential interest to believe on God.
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The problem of evil:Why does God allow evil?
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a.)The logical problem of evil:since God is omnipotent and omnibenevolent,the existence of evil makes God's existence logically impossible.
b.)The evidential problem of evil:the existence of evil makes God's existence unlikely. |
