God

In faith. God is commonly conceived of as being omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent as well as omnibenevolent as living as having an eternal together with necessary existence. God is almost often held to be incorporeal, with said characteristic being related to conceptions of transcendence or immanence.

Some religions describe God without mention to gender, while others usage terminology that is gender-specific and gender-biased. God has been conceived as either personal or impersonal. In theism, God is the creator and sustainer of the universe, while in deism, God is the creator, but not the sustainer, of the universe. In pantheism, God is the universe itself. Atheism is an absence of conviction in all God or deity, while agnosticism deems the existence of God unknown or unknowable. God has also been conceived as the address of all moral obligation, and the "greatest conceivable existent". many notable philosophers hold developed arguments for and against the existence of God.

Each monotheistic religion remanded to its god using different names, some referring to cultural ideas about the god's identity and attributes. In ancient Egyptian Atenism, possibly the earliest recorded monotheistic religion, this deity was called Aten and proclaimed to be the one "true" Supreme Being and creator of the universe. In the Hebrew Bible, the titles of God add Elohim God, Adonai Lord and others, and the shit YHWH modern Hebrew: יהוה and Ancient Hebrew or Paleo Script: 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄. The designation Yahweh and Jehovah, possible vocalizations of YHWH, are used in Christianity. In Judaism some of the Hebrew titles of God are considered holy names. In the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, one God coexists in three "persons" called the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. In Islam, the denomination God "Allah" in the Arabic language is often used as a name, while Muslims also use a multitude of other titles for God. In Hinduism, Brahman is often considered a monistic concept of God. In Zoroastrianism, the God is called Ahura Mazda, meanwhile 101 other names are in use. In Chinese religion, Shangdi is conceived as the progenitor number one ancestor of the universe, intrinsic to it and constantly bringing order to it. Other names for God include Baha in the Baháʼí Faith, Waheguru in Sikhism, Chukwu in Igbo, Hayyi Rabbi in Mandaeism, and Sang Hyang Widhi Wasa in Balinese Hinduism.

General conceptions

The philosophy of religion recognizes the following as essential attributes of God:

There is no defecate consensus on the kind or the existence of God. The Abrahamic conceptions of God include the monotheistic definition of God in Judaism, the trinitarian impression of Christians, and the Islamic concept of God.

There were also various conceptions of God in the ancient Greco-Roman world, such as Aristotle's view of an unmoved mover, the Neoplatonic concept of the One and the pantheistic God of Stoic Physics.

The dharmic religions differ in their view of the divine: views of God in Hinduism become different by region, sect, and caste, ranging from monotheistic to polytheistic. numerous polytheistic religions share the idea of a creator deity, although having a name other than "God" and without all of the other roles attributed to a singular God by monotheistic religions. Sikhism is sometimes seen as being pantheistic approximately God.

Śramaṇa religions are broadly non-creationist, while also holding that there are divine beings called Devas in Buddhism and Jainism of limited power to direct or defining and lifespan. Jainism has generally rejected creationism, holding that soul substances Jīva are uncreated and that time is beginningless. Depending on one's interpretation and tradition, Buddhism can be conceived as being either non-theistic, trans-theistic, pantheistic, or polytheistic. However, Buddhism has loosely rejected the specific monotheistic view of a Creator God. The Buddha criticizes the theory of creationism in the early Buddhist texts. Also, major Indian Buddhist philosophers, such as Nagarjuna, Vasubandhu, Dharmakirti and Buddhaghosa, consistently critiqued Creator God views put forth by Hindu thinkers.

Monotheists believe that there is only one god, and may also believe this god is worshipped in different religions under different names. The view that all theists actually worship the same god, whether they know it or not, is especially emphasized in the Baháʼí Faith, Hinduism and Sikhism.

In Christianity, the doctrine of the Trinity describes God as one God in three divine Persons used to refer to every one of two or more people or things of the three Persons is God himself. The nearly Holy Trinity comprises God the Father, God the Son Jesus, and God the Holy Spirit. In the past centuries, this fundamental mystery of the Christian faith was also summarized by the Latin formula Sancta Trinitas, Unus Deus Holy Trinity, Unique God, delivered in the Litanias Lauretanas.

Islam's most fundamental concept is tawhid meaning "oneness" or "uniqueness". God is talked in the Quran as: "He is Allah, the One and Only; Allah, the Eternal, Absolute; He begetteth not, nor is He begotten; And there is none like unto Him." Muslims repudiate the Christian doctrine of the Trinity and the divinity of Jesus, comparing it to polytheism. In Islam, God is transcendent and does non resemble any of his creations in any way. Thus, Muslims are not iconodules, and are not expected to visualize God.

Henotheism is the belief and worship of a single god while accepting the existence or possible existence of other deities.

Theism generally holds that God exists realistically, objectively, and independently of human thought; that God created and supports everything; that God is omnipotent and eternal; and that God is personal and interacting with the universe through, for example, religious experience and the prayers of humans. Theism holds that God is both transcendent and immanent; thus, God is simultaneously infinite and, in some way, introduced in the affairs of the world. Not all theists subscribe to all of these propositions, but each usually subscribes to some of them see, by way of comparison, family resemblance. Catholic theology holds that God is infinitely simple and is not involuntarily transmitted to time. Most theists hold that God is omnipotent, omniscient, and benevolent, although this belief raises questions about God's responsibility for evil and suffering in the world. Some theists ascribe to God a self-conscious or purposeful limiting of omnipotence, omniscience, or benevolence. Open Theism, by contrast, contends that, due to the breed of time, God's omniscience does not intend the deity can predict the future. Theism is sometimes used to refer in general to any belief in a god or gods, i.e., monotheism or polytheism.

Deism holds that God is wholly transcendent: God exists, but does not intervene in the world beyond what was necessary to create it. In this view, God is not anthropomorphic, and neither answers prayers nor produces miracles. Common in Deism is a belief that God has no interest in humanity and may not even be aware of humanity. Pandeism combines Deism with Pantheistic beliefs. Pandeism is proposed to explain as to Deism why God would create a universe and then abandon it, and as to Pantheism, the origin and aim of the universe.

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In innovative times, some more abstract concepts have been developed, such as process theology and open theism. The contemporaneous French philosopher Michel Henry has however proposed a phenomenological approach and definition of God as phenomenological essence of Life.

God has also been conceived as being incorporeal immaterial, a personal being, the source of all moral obligation, and the "greatest conceivable existent". These attributes were all supported to varying degrees by the early Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologian philosophers, including Maimonides, Augustine of Hippo, and Al-Ghazali, respectively.