God

context: In monotheism and henotheism, God is conceived of as the Supreme Being and principal object of faith. The concept of God as described by theologians commonly includes the attributes of omniscience (infinite knowledge), omnipotence (unlimited power), omnipresence (present everywhere), omnibenevolence (perfect goodness), divine simplicity, and eternal and necessary existence. God is also usually defined as a non-corporeal being without any human biological gender, but the concept of God actively (as opposed to receptively) creating the universe has caused some religions to give "Him" the metaphorical name of "Father". Because God is conceived as not being a corporeal being, God cannot(some say should not) be portrayed in a literal visual image; some religious groups use a man (sometimes old and bearded) to symbolize God because of His deed of creating man's mind in the image of His own.
qas: answers: text: unlimited power
question: What does it mean to say that God is omnipotent?

answers: text: omnipresence
question: What is the feeling of God being everywhere?

answers: text: infinite knowledge
question: What is the extent of God's knowledge?

answers: text: omniscience
question: What is infinite knowledge classified as?

answers: text: omnibenevolence
question: What is the benevolence of God called?

answers: text: without any human biological gender
question: Does God have a gender?

answers: text: a man (sometimes old and bearded)
question: What type of human is God portrayed as in some religions?

answers: text: Supreme Being and principal object of faith
question: What is a God in monotheism?

context: In theism, God is the creator and sustainer of the universe, while in deism, God is the creator, but not the sustainer, of the universe. Monotheism is the belief in the existence of one God or in the oneness of God. In pantheism, God is the universe itself. In atheism, God is not believed to exist, while God is deemed unknown or unknowable within the context of agnosticism. God has also been conceived as being incorporeal (immaterial), a personal being, the source of all moral obligation, and the "greatest conceivable existent". Many notable philosophers have developed arguments for and against the existence of God.
qas: answers: text: theism
question: In what belief is God the creator and sustainer of the universe?

answers: text: the creator, but not the sustainer
question: What does deism believe God's role in the universe is?

answers: text: pantheism
question: Which belief is that God is the universe?

answers: text: atheism
question: Which belief system definitively believes in no Higher Power or Supreme Being?

answers: text: agnosticism
question: Which belief system belives in some form of higher powwer, or something, but not organized religion?

answers: text: creator and sustainer of the universe
question: What is God in theism?

answers: text: belief in the existence of one God
question: What is monotheism?

answers: text: God is the universe itself
question: What is pantheism?

answers: text: God is not believed to exist
question: What is atheism?

answers: text: the creator
question: What is God in deism?

context: There are many names for God, and different names are attached to different cultural ideas about God's identity and attributes. In the ancient Egyptian era of Atenism, possibly the earliest recorded monotheistic religion, this deity was called Aten, premised on being the one "true" Supreme Being and Creator of the Universe. In the Hebrew Bible and Judaism, "He Who Is", "I Am that I Am", and the tetragrammaton YHWH are used as names of God, while Yahweh and Jehovah are sometimes used in Christianity as vocalizations of YHWH. In the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, God, consubstantial in three persons, is called the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. In Judaism, it is common to refer to God by the titular names Elohim or Adonai, the latter of which is believed by some scholars to descend from the Egyptian Aten. In Islam, the name Allah, "Al-El", or "Al-Elah" ("the God") is used, while Muslims also have a multitude of titular names for God. In Hinduism, Brahman is often considered a monistic deity. Other religions have names for God, for instance, Baha in the Bahá'í Faith, Waheguru in Sikhism, and Ahura Mazda in Zoroastrianism.
qas: answers: text: Yahweh and Jehovah
question: What are vocalizations of the name of God, YHWH?

answers: text: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit
question: What is the Holy Trinity?

answers: text: Aten
question: In the time of Atenism, what was God called?

answers: text: Allah
question: What is the Islamic name for God?

answers: text: Baha
question: What do members of the Bahá'í Faith call God?

answers: text: Atenism
question: What was the first monotheistic religion?

answers: text: YHWH
question: What is the God of the Hebrew Bible called?

answers: text: Yahweh and Jehovah
question: What is the Christian God called?

answers: text: Elohim or Adonai
question: What are the 2 titular names of God in the Jewish religion?

answers: text: Aten
question: Where do scholars believe the name Adonai came from?

context: The earliest written form of the Germanic word God (always, in this usage, capitalized) comes from the 6th-century Christian Codex Argenteus. The English word itself is derived from the Proto-Germanic * ǥuđan. The reconstructed Proto-Indo-European form * ǵhu-tó-m was likely based on the root * ǵhau(ə)-, which meant either "to call" or "to invoke". The Germanic words for God were originally neuter—applying to both genders—but during the process of the Christianization of the Germanic peoples from their indigenous Germanic paganism, the words became a masculine syntactic form.
qas: answers: text: the Proto-Germanic * ǥuđan
question: Where is the English word God derived from?

answers: text: neuter—applying to both genders
question: Where the first Germanic words for God masculine or feminine?

answers: text: Christianization of the Germanic peoples
question: When did the Germanic words for God take on a masculine form?

answers: text: Germanic paganism
question: What was practiced by the Germanic people before their Christianization?

answers: text: "to call" or "to invoke"
question: What did the gaelic root of the word for God mean?

answers: text: Codex Argenteus
question: Where does the word God come from originally?

answers: text: German
question: What language does the English word God come from?

answers: text: neuter
question: What gender where the original Germanic words meaning God in?

context: In the English language, the capitalized form of God continues to represent a distinction between monotheistic "God" and "gods" in polytheism. The English word God and its counterparts in other languages are normally used for any and all conceptions and, in spite of significant differences between religions, the term remains an English translation common to all. The same holds for Hebrew El, but in Judaism, God is also given a proper name, the tetragrammaton YHWH, in origin possibly the name of an Edomite or Midianite deity, Yahweh. In many translations of the Bible, when the word LORD is in all capitals, it signifies that the word represents the tetragrammaton.
qas: answers: text: the capitalized form of God
question: What differentiates God from gods?

answers: text: polytheism
question: What belief has many gods?

answers: text: signifies that the word represents the tetragrammaton
question: What does it mean to read the word LORD in all capitals in the Bible?

answers: text: YHWH
question: What is the tetragrammaton gor God?

answers: text: God
question: No matter which religion, what is usually used as the name for the Supreme Being?

answers: text: gods
question: What form of the word God refers to polytheistic gods?

answers: text: YHWH
question: What is the name of God in Judaism?

answers: text: YHWH
question: What does the all caps word LORD used in some bibles represent?

context: There is no clear consensus on the nature or even the existence of God. The Abrahamic conceptions of God include the monotheistic definition of God in Judaism, the trinitarian view of Christians, and the Islamic concept of God. The dharmic religions differ in their view of the divine: views of God in Hinduism vary by region, sect, and caste, ranging from monotheistic to polytheistic to atheistic. Divinity was recognized by the historical Buddha, particularly Śakra and Brahma. However, other sentient beings, including gods, can at best only play a supportive role in one's personal path to salvation. Conceptions of God in the latter developments of the Mahayana tradition give a more prominent place to notions of the divine.[citation needed]
qas: answers: text: trinitarian
question: What type of view do Christians take on God?

answers: text: region, sect, and caste
question: How much can belief in God vary in Hinduism?

answers: text: ranging from monotheistic to polytheistic to atheistic
question: Does hinduism only believe in a single god?

answers: text: monotheistic
question: What view does the Jewish community take on God?

answers: text: dharmic
question: What kind of religion is Hinduism considered?

answers: text: monotheistic
question: What type of religion is Judaism?

answers: text: trinitarian
question: What type of religion is Christianity?

answers: text: monotheistic to polytheistic to atheistic.
question: How many gods do the Hindu's have?

context: Monotheists hold that there is only one god, and may claim that the one true god is worshiped in different religions under different names. The view that all theists actually worship the same god, whether they know it or not, is especially emphasized in Hinduism and Sikhism. In Christianity, the doctrine of the Trinity describes God as one God in three persons. The Trinity comprises God the Father, God the Son (Jesus), and God the Holy Spirit. Islam's most fundamental concept is tawhid (meaning "oneness" or "uniqueness"). God is described in the Quran as: "Say: He is Allah, the One and Only; Allah, the Eternal, Absolute; He begetteth not, nor is He begotten; And there is none like unto Him." Muslims repudiate the Christian doctrine of the Trinity and divinity of Jesus, comparing it to polytheism. In Islam, God is beyond all comprehension or equal and does not resemble any of his creations in any way. Thus, Muslims are not iconodules, and are not expected to visualize God.
qas: answers: text: polytheism
question: What do Muslims believe that Trinitism too closely resembles?

answers: text: iconodules
question: Which belief is expected to never try and visualize God?

answers: text: tawhid
question: What is the most basic belief of the Muslim religion?

answers: text: Quran
question: What religious text helps reinforce to Muslims that Christianity is more like polytheism?

answers: text: "oneness" or "uniqueness"
question: What is the meaning behind the Muslim concept of tawhid?

answers: text: Hinduism and Sikhism
question: What religion believes that all theist worship the same god?

answers: text: one God in three persons
question: What is the trinity in Christianity?

answers: text: one god
question: What do monotheists believe?

answers: text: comparing it to polytheism
question: What do Muslims think of Christianity?

context: Theism generally holds that God exists realistically, objectively, and independently of human thought; that God created and sustains everything; that God is omnipotent and eternal; and that God is personal and interacting with the universe through, for example, religious experience and the prayers of humans. Theism holds that God is both transcendent and immanent; thus, God is simultaneously infinite and in some way present in the affairs of the world. Not all theists subscribe to all of these propositions, but each usually subscribes to some of them (see, by way of comparison, family resemblance). Catholic theology holds that God is infinitely simple and is not involuntarily subject to time. Most theists hold that God is omnipotent, omniscient, and benevolent, although this belief raises questions about God's responsibility for evil and suffering in the world. Some theists ascribe to God a self-conscious or purposeful limiting of omnipotence, omniscience, or benevolence. Open Theism, by contrast, asserts that, due to the nature of time, God's omniscience does not mean the deity can predict the future. Theism is sometimes used to refer in general to any belief in a god or gods, i.e., monotheism or polytheism.
qas: answers: text: God is infinitely simple and is not involuntarily subject to time
question: What is the basis behind Catholic theology?

answers: text: religious experience and the prayers of humans
question: What ways can God interact with the universe?

answers: text: God's responsibility for evil and suffering in the world
question: Why is it sometimes hard to think of God as benevolent?

answers: text: used to refer in general to any belief in a god or gods
question: What is the suffix theism used for?

answers: text: monotheism or polytheism
question: What are examples of different types of theism?

answers: text: God is omnipotent, omniscient, and benevolent,
question: What three points do most theists agree on?

answers: text: Catholic
question: What religion believes that God is infinitely simple and not subject to time?

answers: text: belief in a god or gods
question: What does theism mean in general?

context: Deism holds that God is wholly transcendent: God exists, but does not intervene in the world beyond what was necessary to create it. In this view, God is not anthropomorphic, and neither answers prayers nor produces miracles. Common in Deism is a belief that God has no interest in humanity and may not even be aware of humanity. Pandeism and Panendeism, respectively, combine Deism with the Pantheistic or Panentheistic beliefs. Pandeism is proposed to explain as to Deism why God would create a universe and then abandon it, and as to Pantheism, the origin and purpose of the universe.
qas: answers: text: God exists, but does not intervene in the world beyond what was necessary to create it
question: What is a deistic view of God?

answers: text: no interest in humanity and may not even be aware of humanity
question: How does a deistic God feel about us?

answers: text: why God would create a universe and then abandon it
question: What is Pandeism?

answers: text: neither answers prayers nor produces miracles
question: What does a deistic God not do?

answers: text: Deism
question: What type of religion believes that God is transcendent?

answers: text: God has no interest in humanity
question: What is deism?

answers: text: God is not anthropomorphic
question: In deism is God represented in human form?

answers: text: neither answers prayers
question: In deism, does God answer prayers?

context: Pantheism holds that God is the universe and the universe is God, whereas Panentheism holds that God contains, but is not identical to, the Universe. It is also the view of the Liberal Catholic Church; Theosophy; some views of Hinduism except Vaishnavism, which believes in panentheism; Sikhism; some divisions of Neopaganism and Taoism, along with many varying denominations and individuals within denominations. Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism, paints a pantheistic/panentheistic view of God—which has wide acceptance in Hasidic Judaism, particularly from their founder The Baal Shem Tov—but only as an addition to the Jewish view of a personal god, not in the original pantheistic sense that denies or limits persona to God.[citation needed]
qas: answers: text: God is the universe and the universe is God
question: What is Pantheism?

answers: text: God contains, but is not identical to, the Universe
question: WHat is Panentheism?

answers: text: Jewish mysticism
question: WHat is Kabbalah?

answers: text: The Baal Shem Tov
question: Who is the founder of Hasidic Judaism?

answers: text: God is the universe
question: What is pantheism?

answers: text: The Baal Shem Tov
question: Who was the founder of Hasidic Judaism?

answers: text: God contains, but is not identical to, the Universe
question: What is Panentheism?

answers: text: Vaishnavism
question: What from of Hinduism does not believe in panentheism?

answers: text: Kabbalah
question: What is another name for Jewish mysticism?

answers: text: God is the universe
question: What is pantheism?

context: Even non-theist views about gods vary. Some non-theists avoid the concept of God, whilst accepting that it is significant to many; other non-theists understand God as a symbol of human values and aspirations. The nineteenth-century English atheist Charles Bradlaugh declared that he refused to say "There is no God", because "the word 'God' is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation"; he said more specifically that he disbelieved in the Christian god. Stephen Jay Gould proposed an approach dividing the world of philosophy into what he called "non-overlapping magisteria" (NOMA). In this view, questions of the supernatural, such as those relating to the existence and nature of God, are non-empirical and are the proper domain of theology. The methods of science should then be used to answer any empirical question about the natural world, and theology should be used to answer questions about ultimate meaning and moral value. In this view, the perceived lack of any empirical footprint from the magisterium of the supernatural onto natural events makes science the sole player in the natural world.
qas: answers: text: a symbol of human values and aspirations
question: What do some non-theists view God as?

answers: text: Charles Bradlaugh
question: Although a proclaimed atheist, who was it that said "the word 'God' is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation"?

answers: text: non-overlapping magisteria
question: What is NOMA?

answers: text: science
question: In NOMA, what should be used to answer questions about the physical world?

answers: text: theology
question: What should be used to answer ultimate questions on morality and meaning?

answers: text: Charles Bradlaugh
question: Name the nineteenth century English atheist?

answers: text: non-overlapping magisteria" (NOMA)
question: What does Stephen Jay Gould call philosophy that deals in the supernatural?

answers: text: theology
question: What category does NOMA fall under?

context: Another view, advanced by Richard Dawkins, is that the existence of God is an empirical question, on the grounds that "a universe with a god would be a completely different kind of universe from one without, and it would be a scientific difference." Carl Sagan argued that the doctrine of a Creator of the Universe was difficult to prove or disprove and that the only conceivable scientific discovery that could disprove the existence of a Creator would be the discovery that the universe is infinitely old.
qas: answers: text: the discovery that the universe is infinitely old
question: What did Sagan argue was the only was to prove the existence of God?

answers: text: "a universe with a god would be a completely different kind of universe from one without, and it would be a scientific difference."
question: What is Richard Dawkins belief about the existence of God?

answers: text: a scientific difference
question: What kind of difference does Dawkins believe would come from the existence of God?

answers: text: Richard Dawkins
question: Who argued that the existence of God is an empirical question?

answers: text: Carl Sagan
question: Who stated that God was difficult both to prove or disprove?

answers: text: the universe is infinitely old.
question: How could science discover if there was not a creator?

context: Stephen Hawking and co-author Leonard Mlodinow state in their book, The Grand Design, that it is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God. Both authors claim however, that it is possible to answer these questions purely within the realm of science, and without invoking any divine beings. Neuroscientist Michael Nikoletseas has proposed that questions of the existence of God are no different from questions of natural sciences. Following a biological comparative approach, he concludes that it is highly probable that God exists, and, although not visible, it is possible that we know some of his attributes.
qas: answers: text: who created God
question: What does Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow pose as a better question that "Is there a God"?

answers: text: Stephen Hawking and co-author Leonard Mlodinow
question: Who wrote The Grand Design?

answers: text: Neuroscientist
question: What is Michael Nikoletseas profession?

answers: text: purely within the realm of science
question: How do Hawking and Mlodinow believe the question of God can be answered?

answers: text: The Grand Design
question: What is the name of Stephen Hawking's book?

answers: text: Leonard Mlodinow
question: Who was Hawking's co-author?

answers: text: Michael Nikoletseas
question: Who says the that whether there is or isn't a God are just like questions in natural science?

context: Pascal Boyer argues that while there is a wide array of supernatural concepts found around the world, in general, supernatural beings tend to behave much like people. The construction of gods and spirits like persons is one of the best known traits of religion. He cites examples from Greek mythology, which is, in his opinion, more like a modern soap opera than other religious systems. Bertrand du Castel and Timothy Jurgensen demonstrate through formalization that Boyer's explanatory model matches physics' epistemology in positing not directly observable entities as intermediaries. Anthropologist Stewart Guthrie contends that people project human features onto non-human aspects of the world because it makes those aspects more familiar. Sigmund Freud also suggested that god concepts are projections of one's father.
qas: answers: text: it makes those aspects more familiar
question: Why does Stewart Guthrie believe that people project their human features onto non human things?

answers: text: The construction of gods and spirits like persons
question: What is one of the most common traits of religion according to Boyer?

answers: text: god concepts are projections of one's father
question: What did Frued believe about the belief in God?

answers: text: much like people
question: How does Pascal Boyer believe that gods and other supernatural beings behave?

answers: text: Pascal Boyer
question: Who argues that there are lots of supernatural things in the world?

answers: text: much like people
question: How do supernatural entities act?

answers: text: Greek mythology
question: Which religion does Boyer equate with a modern soap opera?

answers: text: Sigmund Freud
question: Who believed that gods are just projections of a person's father?

context: Likewise, Émile Durkheim was one of the earliest to suggest that gods represent an extension of human social life to include supernatural beings. In line with this reasoning, psychologist Matt Rossano contends that when humans began living in larger groups, they may have created gods as a means of enforcing morality. In small groups, morality can be enforced by social forces such as gossip or reputation. However, it is much harder to enforce morality using social forces in much larger groups. Rossano indicates that by including ever-watchful gods and spirits, humans discovered an effective strategy for restraining selfishness and building more cooperative groups.
qas: answers: text: gossip or reputation
question: What are ways that small social groups can force morality?

answers: text: Matt Rossano
question: Who suggested that by including the presence of an omniscient God, selfishness can be controlled and cooperation can be gained?

answers: text: gods represent an extension of human social life to include supernatural beings
question: What did Émile Durkheim suggest about the existence of God?

answers: text: a means of enforcing morality
question: Why would humans have begun to create gods?

answers: text: Matt Rossano
question: Who posited that humans created gods to create morality in social groups?

answers: text: morality
question: Omnipresent gods are a way to watch large groups and enforce what?

answers: text: more cooperative groups
question: Omniprestent gods helped build what?

context: St. Anselm's approach was to define God as, "that than which nothing greater can be conceived". Famed pantheist philosopher Baruch Spinoza would later carry this idea to its extreme: "By God I understand a being absolutely infinite, i.e., a substance consisting of infinite attributes, of which each one expresses an eternal and infinite essence." For Spinoza, the whole of the natural universe is made of one substance, God, or its equivalent, Nature. His proof for the existence of God was a variation of the Ontological argument.
qas: answers: text: "that than which nothing greater can be conceived"
question: How did St. Anselm define the existence of God?

answers: text: Baruch Spinoza
question: Who said that God is "a substance consisting of infinite attributes"?

answers: text: a variation of the Ontological argument
question: What did Baruch Spinoza use as proof for the existence of God?

answers: text: one substance, God, or its equivalent, Nature
question: What did Spinoza believe the world was made of?

answers: text: St. Anselm
question: Who defined god as "that than which nothing greater can be conceived"?

answers: text: Baruch Spinoza
question: Name a famous pantheist?

answers: text: infinite
question: What was Spinoza's concept of God?

answers: text: God
question: Spinoza believed that the universe was made up of one substance which is?

context: Some findings in the fields of cosmology, evolutionary biology and neuroscience are interpreted by atheists (including Lawrence M. Krauss and Sam Harris) as evidence that God is an imaginary entity only, with no basis in reality. A single, omniscient God who is imagined to have created the universe and is particularly attentive to the lives of humans has been imagined, embellished and promulgated in a trans-generational manner. Richard Dawkins interprets various findings not only as a lack of evidence for the material existence of such a God but extensive evidence to the contrary.
qas: answers: text: a lack of evidence for the material existence
question: How does Dawkins interpret evidence for or against the existence of God?

answers: text: an imaginary entity only
question: What do atheists believe of God?

answers: text: trans-generational
question: How long has the thought of the existence of God been carried on?

answers: text: a lack of evidence for the material existence of such a God
question: How does Dawkins interpret his findings on the existence, or not, of God.

answers: text: Lawrence M. Krauss and Sam Harris
question: Who believes God isn't real?

context: According to the Omnipotence paradox or 'Paradox of the Stone', can God create a stone so heavy that he cannot lift it? Either he can or he can’t. If he can’t, the argument goes, then there is something that he cannot do, namely create the stone, and therefore he is not omnipotent. If he can, it continues, then there is also something that he cannot do, namely lift the stone, and therefore he is not omnipotent. Either way, then, God is not omnipotent. A being that is not omnipotent, though, is not God, according to many theological models. Such a God, therefore, does not exist. Several answers to this paradox have been proposed.
qas: answers: text: can God create a stone so heavy that he cannot lift it
question: What is the Omnipotence paradox?

answers: text: Paradox of the Stone
question: What is another term for the Omnipotence paradox?

answers: text: God is not omnipotent. A being that is not omnipotent, though, is not God
question: Does either outcome of the Paradox of the Stone prove the existence of God?

answers: text: there is something that he cannot do
question: What shows God is not omnipotent if he creates a stone that he cannot lift?

answers: text: omnipotent
question: What must God be, in order to be a Supreme Being?

answers: text: Paradox of the Stone
question: What paradox states that if a god can't create a stone so heavy he can't lift it?

answers: text: he is not omnipotent
question: What does the Paradox of the Stone posit?

answers: text: is not God
question: What does it mean if a God is not omnipotent?

answers: text: Several
question: Are there any answers to the Pradox of the Stone?

context: Different religious traditions assign differing (though often similar) attributes and characteristics to God, including expansive powers and abilities, psychological characteristics, gender characteristics, and preferred nomenclature. The assignment of these attributes often differs according to the conceptions of God in the culture from which they arise. For example, attributes of God in Christianity, attributes of God in Islam, and the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy in Judaism share certain similarities arising from their common roots.
qas: answers: text: similarities arising from their common roots
question: What do religions share across their belief structures?

answers: text: expansive powers and abilities, psychological characteristics, gender characteristics, and preferred nomenclature
question: What are some religious traditions that are found within differing religions?

answers: text: attributes of God in Islam, and the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy in Judaism
question: Who does Christianity share roots with?

answers: text: Thirteen
question: How many Attributes of Mercy are in Judaism?

answers: text: God in Christianity, attributes of God in Islam, and the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy in Judaism
question: What three religions share similar parts?

answers: text: Christianity, attributes of God in Islam, and the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy in Judaism
question: What three religions share similar beginnings?

answers: text: expansive powers and abilities, psychological characteristics, gender characteristics, and preferred nomenclature
question: What attributes do religions all roughly share?

context: The gender of God may be viewed as either a literal or an allegorical aspect of a deity who, in classical western philosophy, transcends bodily form. Polytheistic religions commonly attribute to each of the gods a gender, allowing each to interact with any of the others, and perhaps with humans, sexually. In most monotheistic religions, God has no counterpart with which to relate sexually. Thus, in classical western philosophy the gender of this one-and-only deity is most likely to be an analogical statement of how humans and God address, and relate to, each other. Namely, God is seen as begetter of the world and revelation which corresponds to the active (as opposed to the receptive) role in sexual intercourse.
qas: answers: text: God has no counterpart with which to relate sexually
question: How is sex by God handled in a monotheistic religion?

answers: text: attribute to each of the gods a gender, allowing each to interact with any of the others, and perhaps with humans, sexually
question: How do polytheistic religions view sex by God or gods?

answers: text: begetter
question: What is God's role in the creation of the world?

answers: text: literal or an allegorical aspect
question: In what ways can the gender of God be viewed?

answers: text: gender
question: What do polytheistic religions assign to their gods?

answers: text: the active (as opposed to the receptive) role
question: What role does got serve in a sexual intercourse?

answers: text: monotheistic
question: In which type of religion does God have no sexual partner?

context: Prayer plays a significant role among many believers. Muslims believe that the purpose of existence is to worship God. He is viewed as a personal God and there are no intermediaries, such as clergy, to contact God. Prayer often also includes supplication and asking forgiveness. God is often believed to be forgiving. For example, a hadith states God would replace a sinless people with one who sinned but still asked repentance. Christian theologian Alister McGrath writes that there are good reasons to suggest that a "personal god" is integral to the Christian outlook, but that one has to understand it is an analogy. "To say that God is like a person is to affirm the divine ability and willingness to relate to others. This does not imply that God is human, or located at a specific point in the universe."
qas: answers: text: to worship God
question: What is a muslims life purpose?

answers: text: a personal God
question: What type of God is the Muslim God?

answers: text: a "personal god"
question: What aspect does Alister McGrath argue is important in Christianity?

answers: text: forgiveness
question: What does prayer usually include in Islam?

answers: text: forgiving
question: What type of God is the Muslim God?

context: Adherents of different religions generally disagree as to how to best worship God and what is God's plan for mankind, if there is one. There are different approaches to reconciling the contradictory claims of monotheistic religions. One view is taken by exclusivists, who believe they are the chosen people or have exclusive access to absolute truth, generally through revelation or encounter with the Divine, which adherents of other religions do not. Another view is religious pluralism. A pluralist typically believes that his religion is the right one, but does not deny the partial truth of other religions. An example of a pluralist view in Christianity is supersessionism, i.e., the belief that one's religion is the fulfillment of previous religions. A third approach is relativistic inclusivism, where everybody is seen as equally right; an example being universalism: the doctrine that salvation is eventually available for everyone. A fourth approach is syncretism, mixing different elements from different religions. An example of syncretism is the New Age movement.
qas: answers: text: exclusivists
question: Who believe they are the one and only chosen few?

answers: text: exclusivists
question: Who believe that they are the only people that know the truth?

answers: text: pluralism
question: What is one called that believes he has the one religion, but that the others aren't necessarily wrong?

answers: text: supersessionism
question: What is it called when someone belives that their own religion is an advancement of older religions?

answers: text: universalism
question: What is a religion that believes that all religions are correct?

context: Many medieval philosophers developed arguments for the existence of God, while attempting to comprehend the precise implications of God's attributes. Reconciling some of those attributes generated important philosophical problems and debates. For example, God's omniscience may seem to imply that God knows how free agents will choose to act. If God does know this, their ostensible free will might be illusory, or foreknowledge does not imply predestination, and if God does not know it, God may not be omniscient.
qas: answers: text: God may not be omniscient.
question: What does it mean if God can't predict the future?

answers: text: medieval philosophers
question: Who posited the existence of God?

answers: text: God's omniscience
question: What philosophical debates arose in the middle ages?

context: The last centuries of philosophy have seen vigorous questions regarding the arguments for God's existence raised by such philosophers as Immanuel Kant, David Hume and Antony Flew, although Kant held that the argument from morality was valid. The theist response has been either to contend, as does Alvin Plantinga, that faith is "properly basic", or to take, as does Richard Swinburne, the evidentialist position. Some theists agree that none of the arguments for God's existence are compelling, but argue that faith is not a product of reason, but requires risk. There would be no risk, they say, if the arguments for God's existence were as solid as the laws of logic, a position summed up by Pascal as "the heart has reasons of which reason does not know." A recent theory using concepts from physics and neurophysiology proposes that God can be conceptualized within the theory of integrative level.
qas: answers: text: "properly basic"
question: How does Alvin Plantinga describe faith?

answers: text: Pascal
question: Who stated "the heart has reasons of which reason does not know"?

answers: text: Richard Swinburne
question: Which philosopher takes the evidentialist position?

answers: text: Immanuel Kant, David Hume and Antony Flew
question: Name three philosophers of the last 100 years arguing for the existence of God?