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It is not.

Another answer?

The entire philosophical question is underlined beneath this: "Creator can not be independent of the created." The Bible, Saint Augustine, and the following next Christian thinkers replied: Ex Nihilo. God created out of nothing - something. This something, having being Created, depends on ...

It would be interesting if you could explain why we have this natural tendency to form the idea of God in many circumstances.

The former post, sadly, lost its essence. So, I will restate here, to debate it seriously and rationally: “There is within the human mind, and indeed by natural instinct, an awareness of divinity. This we take to be beyond controversy. To prevent anyone from taking refuge in the pretense of ignoranc...

Arisin-Uk. "I can assure you that its taught that there's one 'God'" That is wrong. There is nothing out there in the phenomenal world in which can learn via senses or experience that there is such properties as Omnipotence, Infinite, Eternalness. Those ideas and concepts are within our co...

Sensus Divinitais is a philosophical argument based in a Priori postulate. The Calvin/Aquinas model theory indicates that in every human mind there is an Innate tendendy to believe in some sort of Divine idea. This is more observable when is "triggered" by an external experience, seeing a ...

“There is within the human mind, and indeed by natural instinct, an awareness of divinity. This we take to be beyond controversy. To prevent anyone from taking refuge in the pretense of ignorance, God himself has implanted in all men a certain understanding of his divine majesty. . . . Men of sound ...

"Do commands and threats negate your idea of what free will is?" Not really. Using your same example, when children leave home, you said, you supposedly lost your right to imposse your standars on them. But that happens in the case when they leave your home. According to the Biblical teach...