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God has revealed himself to us in the Bible as having always existed. [6] Ray Comfort, author and evangelist, writes: No person or thing created God. He created "time," and because we dwell in the dimension of time, reason demands that all things have a beginning and an end. God, however, dwells outside of the dimension of time.
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (before 532) has a predecessor version of the paradox, asking whether it is possible for God to "deny Himself". The best-known version of the omnipotence paradox is the paradox of the stone: "Could God create a stone so heavy that even he could not lift it?" This is a paradoxical question because if God could ...
In monotheistic belief systems, God is usually viewed as the supreme being, creator, and principal object of faith. [1] In polytheistic belief systems, a god is "a spirit or being believed to have created, or for controlling some part of the universe or life, for which such a deity is often worshipped". [2]
Mid-19th century German-Jewish philosopher, Philipp Mainländer theorized the world was created through "God killing himself," wherein the origin of existence can be attributed to a singularity, referred to by Mainländer as "God" in a pseudo-metaphorical sense, dispersing itself to create spatiotemporality in an attempt to elude existence ...
The Genesis creation narrative is the creation myth [a] of both Judaism and Christianity, [1] told in the Book of Genesis ch. 1–2. While the Jewish and Christian tradition is that the account is one comprehensive story, [2] [3] modern scholars of biblical criticism identify the account as a composite work [4] made up of two stories drawn from different sources.
God and creatures co-create. God cannot force anything to happen, but rather only influence the exercise of this universal free will by offering possibilities. Process theology is compatible with panentheism, the concept that God contains the universe but also transcends it. God as the ultimate logician - God may be defined as the only entity ...
According to Islam, the creator deity, God, known as Allah, is the all-powerful and all-knowing Creator, Sustainer, Ordainer, and Judge of the universe. Creation is seen as an act of divine choice and mercy, one with a grand purpose: "And We [note 1] did not create the heaven and earth and that between them in play."
That God created Himself, cannot be true, for nothing can create itself. If He were created by another creator, He would not be self-existent." "Again, if all living beings come from God, they should respect and love Him just as sons love their father.