Gods essential properties: omniscience, omnipotence, simplicity, eternity
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God is identical to his existence.
God is intelligent
Modal notions apply to God's activity.
Some graces are inefficacious
The Western God could at most change mentally — in knowledge, will, or affect.
The free will defense does not provide a complete solution to the problem of evil.
The world is eternal
We must see all things in God
We should mostly ignore what Kant has to say about the postulates and the positive part of his religious philosophy.
A Divine Command Theory that does not ground God's commands in God's essential goodness faces the Euthyphro dilemma
A God who was less than maximally perfect would be an idol.
A Hindu process theology that merges Ramakrishna's thought with Whitehead's supplies an ultimate unity behind God-world relations that was missing in Whitehead's, Griffin's, and Cobb's interpretations
A being by substance is not a being by participation.
A being by substance is unique.
A being can be basic without being absolutely simple
A being with maximal power cannot necessarily bring about whatever any other agent can bring about.
A body conserved by God in different places from moment to moment is in motion.
A body conserved by God in the same place from moment to moment remains at rest.
A chain of possible things cannot regress infinitely and must terminate in a being that is necessary in itself
A contradictory state of affairs cannot become actualized for good things
A deity that has no interest in the condition or fate of intelligent life would not be worthy of worship.
A distinction must be made between the Good in itself and good entities
A divine idea can be called both infinite and finite without contradiction.
A divine revelation must be discrete and available only to a few people at first.
A full causal account of the human body must include both the final cause (divine purpose) and the material cause (building-blocks), not the final cause alone.
A less positivistic or naturalistic, more expansive criterion of ontological commitment is appropriate when examining omnipotence.
A maximally perfect being that existed necessarily could be called 'God'.
A method of correlation between the properties of a necessary being and the supreme beings of diverse religions can provide religious substance to the concept of a necessary being.
A moral agent must postulate the existence of God as a rational presupposition of the moral life.
A natural process can include scientific randomness and still be guided by God.
knowledge
Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
omnipotent
A being whose will is never thwarted; a being capable of bringing about any willed outcome.
agent
The party in a principal-agent relationship who is instructed to produce the good or service on the principal's behalf — in the medical context, the doctor
state of affairs
A genus of which both events and facts are treated as species, used to capture their close ontological kinship without fully identifying them.
Actualize
To make something real or bring it into existence; to turn a possibility into reality.
concrete object
An object that actually exists in the sense captured by the existence predicate E!x; taken as primitive.
epistemology
A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs
causally sufficient condition
'A' is a causally sufficient condition for 'B' when 'A' specifies the occurrence of an event that would cause another event 'B', by stating a condition the truth of which is sufficient for inferring the truth of 'B'.
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