A1 Either a property or its negation is positive, but not both: ∀φ[P (¬φ)↔ ¬P (φ)] A2 A property necessarily implied by a positive property is positive: ∀φ∀ψ[(P (φ) ∧ ∀x[φ(x)→ ψ(x)])→ P (ψ)] T1 Positive properties are possibly exemplified: ∀φ[P (φ)→ ♦∃xφ(x)] D1 A God-like being possesses all positive properties: G(x)↔ ∀φ[P (φ)→ φ(x)] A3 The property of being God-like is positive: P (G) C Possib...

One of unpleasant features in human being is boredom which can affect all steps of individual and social life of people such as act of worship, religious, military, social relationship and so on. As a result of this, an individual or society will encounter with a crisis. Some of reasons of boredom such as lack of remembrance of God, lack of knowledge of himself/herself, love of this world, envy...

(1) God exists in the understanding but not in reality. (Supposition) (2) Existence in reality is greater than existence in the understanding alone. (Premise) (3) God’s existence in reality is conceivable. (Premise) (4) If God did exist in reality, then he would be greater than he is (from (1) and (2)). (5) It is conceivable that there be a being greater than God is (from (3) and (4)). (6) It i...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine the effect of breast cancer survivors' views of God on religious coping strategies, depression, anxiety, stress, concerns about recurrence, and psychological well-being. DESIGN Exploratory, cross-sectional, comparative survey. SETTING Outpatients from community and university oncology practices in the southeastern United States. SAMPLE 130 early breast cancer...

The evidence of human wickedness in the world is so transparent that no rational person can dispute its reality. This paper approaches question from an African philosophical perspective and explores relation between apparently free-acting being God conceived as creator ultimate cause being. will proffer answers to following question: what extent be absolved blame for evil they perpetrate a trad...

in some verses of the holy quran we read something about the love of god in men and the love of a number of men in god. mull sadra has known the truth of love to lie in god by defining it as rejoicing by the favorable thing and says that its application to the creatures is metaphorical just in the way that application of existence to them is. every created being is a shadow of gods hierarchical...

Pascal’s wager attempts to provide a mortal with a proper choice of believing or not believing in a god, based on the expected reward of a given belief. It is essentially a Bayesian approach to the existence of a supreme being, as it deals with a degree of belief approach to proability. However, given the ineffability of a supreme being, the idea of finding a Bayesian prior for performing infer...

[ABSTRACT] Some argue that God’s omnipotence and moral perfection prevent God from being afraid and having evil desires and thus from understanding such states—which contradicts God’s omniscience. But, I argue, God could acquire such understanding indirectly, either by (i) perceiving the mental states of imperfect creatures, (ii) imaginatively combining the components of mental states with whic...