The philosophy of religion is based on attributes/nature of God and also the metaphysical attributes of God.
These attributes/nature are:Necessary Being,Omnipotence,Omniscient,Goodness etc. Now let's discuss these attributes/nature and see how they relate cohesively into one being.
(1)The necessary nature of God is that existence is d nature of God.Anselm in his book "The Monologium" says that it is d nature of God to exist. God" derives existence from itself",He exists through itself"but the existence of other beings are predicated upon his existence.Anselm further went on in his book "Proslogium"[/b]to explain the grandeur of God as "that than which no greater can be conceived".From this he drew the necessary and certain existence of God.
Thomas Aquinas in his book[b]Summa Theologica argued for the existence of God on the grounds of self-evidence,for Gods predicate is incorporated in his subject.
The objection to this proofs or definition of God is that the thought of å being does not necessarily bring such being into existence
(2)God is often perceived as all-knowing Being(omniscient).He knows the past,present and future
the problem with this definition of God is that it rules out the freedom of man.It means man is just living in an already determined world
(3)The Omnipotence definition is that God is all-powerful.This of course means God's power cover everything.He is capable of doing everything and if this definition is true,then God is equally responsible for the obvious evils that takes place in d world or He is unable to do anything about it.Either way,there seems to be å sort of shortfall on d attributes of God.God of goodness would certainly not permit evil and all-powerful God should be able to cutail evil .

Dear forumites,all u have read above is not to dissuade u from your faiths or beliefs in God.Rather,it is to urge us to develop rational and good reasons for believing in God.It makes us less dogmatic and more tolerant to other people's belief.

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