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The development of process theology has challenged the Irenaean tradition by teaching that God using suffering for his own ends would be immoral. Twentieth-century philosopher Alvin Plantinga's freewill defense argues that, while this may be the best world God could have created, God's options were limited by the need to allow freewill.
[7] [8] Thomas à Kempis, on the other hand, presented a path to The Imitation of Christ based on a focus on the interior life and withdrawal from the world. [ 9 ] The theme of imitation of Christ existed in all phases of Byzantine theology , and in the 14th-century book Life in Christ Nicholas Cabasilas viewed "living one's own personal life ...
The arguments propose that only the existence of God as orthodoxly conceived could support the existence of moral order in the universe, so God must exist. Alternative arguments from moral order have proposed that we have an obligation to attain the perfect good of both happiness and moral virtue.
A god complex may also be associated with mania or a superiority complex. The first person to use the term "god complex" was Ernest Jones (1913–1951). [3] His description, at least in the contents page of Essays in Applied Psycho-Analysis, describes the god complex as belief that one is a god. [4]
Epicurus was not an atheist, although he rejected the idea of a god concerned with human affairs; followers of Epicureanism denied the idea that there was no god. While the conception of a supreme, happy and blessed god was the most popular during his time, Epicurus rejected such a notion, as he considered it too heavy a burden for a god to have to worry about all the problems in the world.
U.S. President Joe Biden did not answer reporters' questions on the granting of a pardon to his son Hunter Biden when he landed in Cape Verde for a brief stopover on his way to Angola. Joe Biden ...
Ishvara (God) is a complete, perfect and the highest reality to Dvaitins, and simultaneously the world is a separate reality for them, unlike competing thoughts in other sub-schools of Vedanta. [9] In Dvaita sub-school, Jiva (individual Self) is different, yet dependent on Ishvara (God).
Amid backlash, Nelly is defending his decision to perform at an inaugural ball following President-elect Donald Trump's swearing-in on Monday. "I respect the office," Nelly said. "This isn't ...