Problems with the Ontology of Divine Attributes
God is a collection of attributes. Does this not mean God depends on these attributes? And can these attributes exist without their effects? For example, can God remain…
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The Unmoved Mover: An Aristotelian Account of God
Aristotle didn’t believe in an anthropomorphic god as the Judeo-Christian/Abrahamic god but rather a deistic god. He thought of him as the unmoved mover by virtue of whom…
Pantheism Explained: The Universe as Divine Singularity
What is God? Everyone has their own definition of it. Some say he’s the first cause, while others precieve him to be someone who’s watching them all the…
Teleological Free Will: Is Human Freedom an Illusion?
If God already knows, with absolute certainty, what choices we will make in the future, then the future is already determined. No matter how much we feel that…
Ontological Argument: Proof of God’s Existence with criticism
The ontological argument intends to prove the existence of god by the concept of god himself. What I mean by this Is that it intends to prove existence…
Saint Thomas Aquinas’s Five Arguments for Proving God’s Existence
Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) presented five philosophical arguments to prove God’s existence in his work Summa Theologica. These arguments, known as the “Five Ways” (Quinque Viæ), rational proofs…
How Zoroastrianism Influenced Islam
Zoroastrianism, also known as Mazdaism, is an ancient Aryan religion believed to have originated around 3500 years ago or, according to some traditions, 2500 BCE in Persia. It…
Pascal’s wager and Russell’s teapot analogy
–Burden of proof and Russell’s teapot analogy: Assume that a teapot is orbiting the Earth and the Sun. It is so small that it is impossible to observe…