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A god complex is an unshakable belief characterized by consistently inflated feelings of personal ability, privilege, or infallibility. [1] The person is also highly dogmatic in their views, meaning the person speaks of their personal opinions as though they were unquestionably correct. [ 2 ]
The people he has talked with say they believe because that is what their parents taught them, and their parents would not lie to them, or because that is what it says in their book of wisdom. [ 1 ] Of the fifty reasons, Harrison concludes that the most common reasons people believe are because it is just obvious to them, because everyone is ...
Ecumenical interpretations of the wager [35] argues that it could even be suggested that believing in a generic God, or a god by the wrong name, is acceptable so long as that conception of God has similar essential characteristics of the conception of God considered in Pascal's wager (perhaps the God of Aristotle). Proponents of this line of ...
Personal resources, such as status, social support, money, or shelter, may reduce or prevent an employee's emotional exhaustion. According to the Conservation of Resources theory (COR), people strive to obtain, retain and protect their personal resources, either instrumental (for example, money or shelter), social (such as social support or status), or psychological (for example, self-esteem ...
Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, Bantam Book: 2006 (ISBN 0-618-68000-4) (although not identified explicitly, the argument from religious experience is dismissed). Joseph Hinman, The Trace of God: A Rational Warrant for Belief (ISBN 978-0-9824087-3-5). William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, OUP: 2012 [1902] (ISBN 978-0199691647).
The divine nature accordingly has no emotions, changes, alterations, height, width, depth, or any other temporal attributes. While Jesus Christ's human nature was complete, and thus Christ possessed a human body, human mind and human soul, and thus human emotions, this human nature was hypostatically united with the timeless, immutable, impassible divine nature, which retained all of its ...
The benefits of feeling awe Each of our emotions comes with a ripple effect of physiological and psychological markers. Some are beneficial ; others can be harmful over time.
No perfectly loving God exists (from 2 and 3). Hence, there is no God (from 1 and 4). Schellenberg has stated that this formulation is misleading, when taken on its own, because it does not make explicit the reason why a perfectly loving God would want to prevent nonbelief.