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What are the attributes of God?  Does God exist?  Why believe in God?

I.  The Attributes of God

Would God be ultimate, infinite, and absolute? Would God have being, mind, omnipotence, omniscience, and omnibenevolence?  What are the negative versus positive attributes of God?

A.  The Negative Attributes of God

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What are the negative attributes of God, and why are they called negative?

The ultimate, infinite, and absolute would be the negative attributes.

These attributes are intrinsic to God alone in his essence and as such, are not shared with his creatures, hence they are negative.

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B.  The Positive Attributes of God

What are the positive attributes, and why are they called positive?

Being, knowledge, and power are examples of positive attributes.  

God would share these attributes with his creatures, hence they are positive: they are essential to the respective natures of both - God and his creatures, in other words,  both would positively share being, power, and knowledge, and both would possess them essentially.

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II.  Does God Exist?

A debate on whether God does or does not exist and why.

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III.  Why Believe in God?

Spirituality doesn't matter to everyone.  One-quarter of the population is secular (atheist or indifferent), one-half mildly interested, and one-quarter is devout.  Why does belief in God matter to some but not to others?  

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Resources

  • God-u-like: Have a laugh with God at an irreverent look at over 100 religions.
  • God, Interrupted's Journal:  take a peek at the very own journal of God.

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