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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.

    Samuel Clarke's cosmological argument establishes that a necessarily existent being cannot have contingent or temporally indexed properties, making 'not yet' incompatible with genuine divinity.

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    Samuel Clarke(as a key figure in the debate)
    A 17th-18th century English philosopher who defended the opposing view that space is a real, independent thing that exists on its own.
    Temporally indexed properties(as another type of property incompatible with divinity)
    Qualities that involve time or change, like 'being young' or 'not yet existing'—things that are only true at certain moments.
    contingent properties(Used to contrast with essential properties in evaluating divine simplicity.)
    Properties that God does not have in every possible world in which he exists.
    cosmological argument(Swinburne's general characterization)
    An argument that the fact that there is a universe needs explaining, typically by appeal to a cause or ground outside the universe
    divinity

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    (Bishop and Perszyk's usage within the euteleological model)
    The property or activity of being the supreme good; on the euteleological model, not a substance or person but a quality instantiable by concrete occasions of love.
    necessarily existent Being(Cosmological argument for the existence of God)
    A being that carries the reason of its own existence in itself and cannot be supposed not to exist without an express contradiction.

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