Concept of God
Philosophical perspectives on God explore the concept of a supreme being through reasoning and contemplation, independent of religious doctrines. This includes examining the nature of existence, knowledge, and values, and whether or not God fits within these categories.
- Philosophical Theism: The belief in a Supreme Being, often with attributes like omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence, through reason rather than religious revelation.
- Arguments for God’s Existence: Philosophical arguments like the Ontological Argument, Cosmological Argument, and Teleological Argument attempt to prove God’s existence based on logic and observation of the universe.
- God and Time: Philosophical discussions on whether God exists within time or is eternal, timeless, or atemporal.
- God’s Attributes: Exploring concepts like omnipotence (all-powerful), omniscience (all-knowing), and omnibenevolence (all-loving).
- Pantheism: The belief that God is everything and everything is God, often associated with Monism.
Necessary Being
A necessary being is a being that must exist, and its non-existence is logically impossible. It exists in all possible worlds, either eternally or timeless.
Examples of necessary beings:
God, Propositions, Relations, Properties, States of affairs, Possible worlds, and Numbers.
The concept of a necessary being can be defined in terms of a possible world. A necessary being exists in all possible worlds, and its existence is necessary Necessary Existence.
Some say that God is a necessary being because he is not able not to exist. Others say that what makes God perfect also makes him exist necessarily.
In contrast to a necessary being, a contingent being is something that is possible to be and not to be. For example, animals and plants are contingent beings because they come into being and go out of it.
Quotes
- The first gulp of natural sciences will make you an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass, God is waiting for you. ― Werner Heisenberg
- “Our Consciousness is divided into a trinity. Imagine a trinity of your Soul, your higher The Self and your spirit. All 3 of them are you, they are just focused in specific directions. The soul is you in the present moment, on your journey. The higher self is the collective you. It is the collection of experiences in all lifetimes and on all dimensions. And your spirit is you as Source. God consciousness in the eternal now. They are all you, they are just in different phases.” ― Sarah Elkhaldy
- “God and Nature are bound together in an indissoluble unity, and it is the duty of the wise man to discover this unity within his mind, experience it with his heart and manifest it through his works. All else is vanity.” ― Manly P. Hall
- “(As a child) No. 1 be a pilot, and No. 2 find God. As I grew up, being a pilot became No. 2 and find God became No. 1, until only No. 1 remained.” — Swami Sarvapriyananda
- “We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.” ― C.S. Lewis