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Criticism of Christianity has a long history which stretches back to the initial formation of the religion in the Roman Empire. Critics have challenged Christian beliefs and teachings as well as Christian actions, from the Crusades to modern terrorism. The arguments against Christianity include the suppositions that it is a faith of violence ...
Religious exclusivism. Last Judgment, a painting by Jacob de Backer, c. 1580: Believers ascend into Heaven while sinners and those who reject the faith are doomed to Hell. Religious exclusivism, or religious exclusivity, is the doctrine or belief that only one particular religion or belief system is true. [1]
In Christianity, God is the eternal, supreme being who created and preserves all things. [5] Christians believe in a monotheistic, trinitarian conception of God, which is both transcendent (wholly independent of, and removed from, the material universe) and immanent (involved in the material universe). [6]
An investigation on subjective well-being representing 90% of the world population has noted that, globally, religious people are usually happier than nonreligious people, though nonreligious people also reach high levels of happiness. [88] As of 2001, much of research on religion and health has been conducted within the United States. [89]
United States. Media type. paperback, Pages. 354. ISBN. 978-1-59102-567-2. 50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God is a 2008 book by journalist Guy P. Harrison which examines fifty common reasons that believers across the world give for believing in a god or gods.
One such criticism is that sentences about God in the Quran are sometimes followed immediately by those in which God is the speaker. [62] The modern historian John Wansbrough believes that the Quran is in part a redaction of other sacred scriptures, in particular the Judaeo-Christian scriptures. [63] [64] The Christian theologian Philip Schaff (d.
God Himself does not know what He is because He is not anything [i.e., "not any created thing"]. Literally God is not, because He transcends being. [78] When he says "He is not anything" and "God is not", Scotus does not mean that there is no God, but that God cannot be said to exist in the way that creation exists, i.e. that God is uncreated.
Entitative attributes concerns God as regards to the fact that in Him essence and existence coincide. They are: infinity, simplicity, indivisibility, uniqueness, immutability, eternity, and spirituality (meaning absence of matter ). [ 5] Personal attributes of God are life (fullness, beatitude, perfection), thought, will and freedom, love and ...