When rival accounts of what is observed are in conflict, argument may be used to show that this or that account is correct, or, at least, better than the others. Argument plays a crucial role in sorting out what is not transparent or self-explanatory. Any argument that purports to sort out whether or not there is a God must surely meet minimal standards of the same sort.
Let's remember --
- YHWH's Name was never "God" or "ADONAI" or anything else; those were simply titles.
- The title means - a being of supernatural powers or attributes, believed in and worshiped by a people
- Worship amounts to - reverence, honour, respect, homage, devotion, adoration, veneration. Worship has to do with acts of homage, adoration, religious service.
- Omnipotence - having very great or unlimited power
- Omniscience - having complete or unlimited knowledge, awareness, or understanding; perceiving all things
- Omniperfection - without any possible flaw in any sense.
- Omnipresence - present in all places at all times
- Aseity - the quality or state of being self-derived or self-originated;specifically : the absolute self-sufficiency, independence, and autonomy of God
- Ontological argument - arguments for the conclusion that God exists, from premises which are supposed to derive from some source other than observation of the world
- Cosmological argument - makes an inference from certain alleged facts about the world (cosmos) to the existence of a unique being, generally identified with or referred to as God.
- Teleological argument - some phenomena within nature exhibit such exquisiteness of structure, function or interconnectedness that many people have found it natural—if not inescapable—to see a deliberative and directive mind behind those phenomena. The mind in question, being prior to nature itself, is typically taken to be supernatural. Philosophically inclined thinkers have both historically and at present labored to shape the relevant intuition into a more formal, logically rigorous inference. The resultant theistic arguments, in their various logical forms, share a focus on plan, purpose, intention and design
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