[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...

the book mazamir is attributed to prophet david (as) and is full of metaphors about god, human being, sins, believers and unbelievers. although some parts of this book has not addressed and described the god in the way he deserves, it could be said that its metaphors are compatible and similar to those in holy quran in form and content. comparing the god to a shelter and the sinners to unfruitf...

the proofs of god's existence are among the main questions of philosophers. this question has a special importance in spinoza's works, because it constitutes the basis of his philosophy. in his main work, ethics, he initiates the discussion with the definition of god and ends it up with man's noblest happiness, namely love of god. he deals with the issue in his different works an...

A Christian liberal arts education seeks to explore several fundamental questions: What does it mean to be human? For what purpose did God create us? How do we develop to our full human potential? What sets us free, liberates us, to be all that God intends us to be? In Genesis, we learn that to be human is to be created in the image of God; to bear the image of God. To be human is to rule over ...

OBJECTIVE To track within-individual change during late life in the sense of personal control and God-mediated control (the belief that one can work collaboratively with God to achieve one's goals and exercise control over life events) and to evaluate the hypothesis that this element of religion is related to declining personal control. METHOD A longitudinal survey representative of older Whi...

in that belief to god is a contract and heart condition that took safety for the believer and on top of all minor beliefs has been human and is happinees; there is no say; but providing characteristics of belief and comprehensive definition for that for a discussion of the most basic issues of islamic theology and christian theology is need. among christian with existentialist  paul tillich wit...

In this article I argue that the effects of sin for our cognition of God primarily consist in a lack of knowledge by acquaintance of God and the relevant ensuing propositional knowledge. In the course of my argument, I make several conceptual distinctions and offer analyses of 1 Cor 13:9–12 and Rom 1:18–23. As it turns out, we have ample reason to think that sin has had and still has profound c...