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What Is God Flashcards

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Theism

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The belief that there is a god or gods

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Theist

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Someone who believes that there is a god or gods

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Monotheism

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The belief that there is one god

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Polytheism

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The belief that there is many god

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Atheism

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The belief that there’s no such thing as god

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Atheist

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A person who does not believe in god

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Ineffable

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Can’t describe god in human language

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Omnipresent

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God everywhere all of The time

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Omnipotent

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All powerful

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Omniscient

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God is all knowing

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Eternal

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Always has existed always will exist

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Immanent

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Interacts with the world

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Transcendent

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Belief that god is not limited in the way humans are

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Via Negativa

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Maimonides theory that you only talk about god by saying what he is not

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What did two Ancient Greek ideas did Aristotle reject?

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The belief in many gods
God being human

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What does Aristotle call god

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The Prime Mover

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What did Aristotle think god was

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A force and powerful energy that doesn’t interact with us and doesn’t know us as individuals

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Why do philosophers think it is hard to show god in art?

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Because he is ineffable

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Pluralism

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The belief that all religions are expression of the same god e.g the elephant and the blind men

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Who was John Hick?

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British philosopher, pluralism

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Omniscience

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He know what we are choosing, why we a re choosing it and our past choices.”all knowing”

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Free will

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The freedom to choose what to do and have power over their choice

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