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    Wide variation in religious beliefs about God's nature is... — Carmelics
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    Wide variation in religious beliefs about God's nature is compatible with worthiness of worship being the sole defining feature of God.

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    • 1.Forms of worship vary widely across religions.
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    • 2.If worthiness of worship is the defining feature of God, beliefs about what God is like can still vary as widely as worship practices vary.
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    • 1.Worthiness of worship presupposes specific divine attributes (omnipotence, moral perfection) that constrain rather than permit arbitrary variation in God-concepts.
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    • 2.A being worthy of unconditional worship must possess maximal greatness, and maximal greatness has determinate content that rules out many religious conceptions of God.
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    • 1.The supporting argument conflates variation in worship practices with variation in the object of worship, treating them as equivalent when they are logically distinct.
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    • 2.Anselm's tradition establishes that 'that than which nothing greater can be conceived' converges on a unique concept, making wide doctrinal variation evidence against a single worthy object, not compatibility with one.
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    A third approach (compatible with the first two) is to start from the close connection in meaning between “God” and “worship”. Worship appears to be essential to theistic religions and thus an essential role that any being must play to qualify for the title “God” is to be an appropriate object of worship. Indeed, although there is risk of circularity here if “worship” is defined in terms of the actions or attitudes appropriately directed towards “God”, it would not be obviously mistaken to claim
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