Schema about the Nature, Attributes and Communication with
God
The presentness of God
See the Prayer Conversation with God about his presentness
First Part (Click to open)
1. Nature of God - Introduction
1.1. God is incomprehensible and partially intelligible
1.2. Ineffability of God
1.3. From the cosmos to God
1.4. The Necessary Being
1.4.1. God as Existence
1.5. The un-caused and the first cause
1.6. Is God temporal or atemporal?
1.7. Infinity of God
Second Part (Click to open)
2. Perfection of God - The most perfect being
2.1. Logically possible qualities
2.2. Ideas or Forms in God
3. Attributes of God
3.1. Immutability of God
3.2. Omnipotence of God
3.3. Omniscience of God
4. Objections against the God of theism
4.1. First objection:
Necessity versus Contingency
4.2. Second
objection: Omniscience and Omnipotence versus free will
4.3. Third objection:
Immutability versus being personal
4.4. Fourth
objection: Self-centered God versus Loving-God
4.5. The present or presentness
of God
4.5.1. Where philosophers' error is
4.5.2. Purpose of this essay
4.5.3. Time and eternity do not mingle
4.5.4. How a temporal God would be
4.6. God's necessity and freedom
Third Part (Click
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5. Communication with God
5.1. Questions about communication
5.2. The answer
6. Relations and God
6.1. Our relations with God
6.2. No feelings in God
7. Prayers
7.1. God's knowledge of possibilities and actualities
7.2. The greatest and most comforting reality
7.3. The Prayer Enquiry
8. Immortality of the human mind
8.1. Spinoza's doctrine of immortality
9.
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