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    A being that does not yet fully possess its defining attr... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The universe is already implicitly God in an actual sense, even though deity as a fully realized quality does not yet exist.

    A being that does not yet fully possess its defining attribute cannot bear that attribute even implicitly, since God's essence on any orthodox account is identical with God's existence and perfection.

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    God's essence is identical with God's existence(as used in theology and philosophy of religion)
    A classical theological idea that God's core nature is the same as God's being itself—God doesn't just *have* existence, God *is* existence in a unique way.
    Implicitly(describing a way the universe might be called 'God' without saying it outright)
    Suggested or contained within something without being directly stated or obvious.
    Orthodox(as used in contrasting strategies)
    The conventional, widely-accepted, or traditional approach that most people follow.
    attribute(Spinoza's metaphysics, contrasted with Descartes)
    That which individuates substances, not merely types of substances; dropped the Cartesian qualifier 'principal' so that all attributes, not just the chief one, are individuating.

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    essence(Medieval realist metaphysics)
    The defining nature of a species, held by some to be distinct from and capable of surviving the destruction of all individual members of that species
    perfection(Sulzer's conception of perfection as involving teleological inner constitution)
    A property of objects that includes purposiveness, such that an object can be perfect through its material, its external form, or its inner constitution as a means to a final end.

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