In other words, we decide we are not interested in any polytheistic sorts of gods, or a pantheistic sort of god, or a deistic sort of god. What we want to get some grasp on is what the God of Abraham and Jesus is. But then there are a lot of questions to be answered about this definition . We will discuss such questions in a little bit. We will discuss several arguments that God exists, and one major argument that God does not exist.
Nonbelievers come in two varieties.
Those who believe that God does not exist are atheists , and their view is called atheism , whereas those who believe neither that God exists nor that God does not exist are called agnostics , and their position is agnosticism . In its original sense, agnosticism is the view that we, humans, cannot know whether or not God exists. But there are some other views, which are not as extreme as that, which I am lumping in with agnosticism in that original sense. In the second part of our examination of the philosophy of religion, we are going to be considering the merits of theism , insofar we are going to evaluate some arguments for the existence of God, and of atheism , insofar as we are going to examine one important argument against the existence of God. But we are not going to be considering the merits of agnosticism .