[Christianity and Judaism: title of reverence for God the Father. In most monotheistic religions, God has no counterpart with which to relate sexually. McGrath, argue that the existence of God is not a question that can be answered using the scientific method.
good (plural and weak singular goode, comparative bettre, superlative best) good (of good quality or behaviour) good (morally right or righteous) 14th c., Chaucer, General Prologue: In pantheism, God is the universe itself. [100], Early Christians believed that the words of the Gospel of John 1:18: "No man has seen God at any time" and numerous other statements were meant to apply not only to God, but to all attempts at the depiction of God.[101]. This practice ended during the beginning of the Sassanid empire. : Leach, 42], scriptural epithet for God. For them God could represent eternal punishment and damnation, and invoke massive amount guilt. In Hinduism, Brahman is often considered a monistic concept of God. Alternative suggestions (e.g. spoken in place of the ineffable Yahweh. [81] Richard Dawkins interprets such findings not only as a lack of evidence for the material existence of such a God, but as extensive evidence to the contrary. Of these names only Adonai has a satisfactory etymology. The idea of god as personal and supernatural is the distinctive characteristic of theism. God is described in the Quran as: "He is Allah, the One and Only; Allah, the Eternal, Absolute; He begetteth not, nor is He begotten; And there is none like unto Him. In 1667 the 43rd chapter of the Great Moscow Council specifically included a ban on a number of symbolic depictions of God the Father and the Holy Spirit, which then also resulted in a whole range of other icons being placed on the forbidden list,[115][116] mostly affecting Western-style depictions which had been gaining ground in Orthodox icons. A dove, the symbol of the Holy Spirit may hover above.
Like poetry, sometimes they express the inexpressible. But that kind of scholarship misses the point and only confuses the insight of the original myth by adding a layer of cultural baggage. Some variant forms of the name Odin such as the Lombardic Godan may point in the direction that the Lombardic form actually comes from Proto-Germanic *ǥuđánaz. Some theologians, such as the scientist and theologian A.E. ", Moses was hidden in the cleft of a rock and allowed to see God's "after glow." God of the gaps means "God considered solely as an explanation for anything not otherwise explained by science;" the exact phrase is from 1949, but the words and the idea have been around since 1894. Jews and Christians believe that humans are created in the image of God, and are the center, crown and key to God's creation, stewards for God, supreme over everything else God had made (Gen 1:26); for this reason, humans are in Christianity called the "Children of God". Another view is religious pluralism. Monotheistic Gods are traditionally referenced in English with masculine pronouns and (when depicted) anthropomorphized in the form of adult men, but also traditionally held by theologians to be beyond human sex or gender. St. Thomas believed that the existence of God is self-evident in itself, but not to us. What caused a mountain to rise from a plain? God. 12, No. Although the idea of God, through its long acceptance by Jews, Christians, and Muslims, has come to be associated with the concept of a good, infinite personality, in recent times the name has been extended to many principles of an utterly different sort; thus, a philosopher may consider the unifying concept in his philosophy (e.g., cosmic energy, mind, world soul, number) as God. The idea of a tribal god arose with the disintegration of the primitive communal structure and the subsequent development of tribal units. : Jobes, 374]. "Therefore I say that this proposition, "God exists", of itself is self-evident, for the predicate is the same as the subject.... Now because we do not know the essence of God, the proposition is not self-evident to us; but needs to be demonstrated by things that are more known to us, though less known in their nature—namely, by effects. The dilemma over the existence of God is probably the most common dilemma of them all. "Oh God..." can express horror, ecstasy, wonder, awe, and delight. God has also been conceived as being incorporeal (immaterial), a personal being, the source of all moral obligation, and the "greatest conceivable existent". The theist response has been either to contend, as does Alvin Plantinga, that faith is "properly basic", or to take, as does Richard Swinburne, the evidentialist position. c.875 B.C., Hebrew prophet in the reign of King Ahab. [21], Ahura Mazda is the name for God used in Zoroastrianism. of a root "gheu-". Oddly, the exact origin of the word God is unknown.. All that we know for certain is that the word God is a relatively new European invention, which was never used in any of the ancient Judaeo-Christian scripture manuscripts which were written in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek or Latin.. God now became not only the principal subject of faith and worship but also a concept of idealist philosophy. "God is a psychological crutch, a human invention." The Buddha criticizes the theory of creationism in the early Buddhist texts. Historically, unanswered questions have been left to God. There are two Aryan roots of the required form ("*g,heu-" with palatal aspirate) one with meaning 'to invoke' (Skr. God has also been conceived as the source of all moral obligation, and the "greatest conceivable existent". However, it is much harder to enforce morality using social forces in much larger groups. [67] Some of the most notable arguments are the Five Ways of Aquinas, the Argument from desire proposed by C.S. Look up wod in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. However, later depictions of God are found. The gods of subjected tribes and cities took a subordinate place in the polytheistic pantheon. [105], . In the Judeo-Christian tradition, "the Bible has been the principal source of the conceptions of God". Waheguru (Punjabi: vāhigurū) is a term most often used in Sikhism to refer to God. The earliest written form of the Germanic word God comes from the 6th-century Christian Codex Argenteus.The English word itself is derived from the Proto-Germanic * ǥuđan. Other names for God include Baha in the Baháʼí Faith,[8] Waheguru in Sikhism,[9] Ahura Mazda in Zoroastrianism,[10] and Sang Hyang Widhi Wasa in Balinese Hinduism. A pluralist typically believes that his religion is the right one, but does not deny the partial truth of other religions.