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1.3 Existence of God: TheologyVersion 1.2 June 2017                                  (Previous Version) These are the questions we ask in the introduction (Section 0.1.6 – paragraph 3): Does God exist? Is there one god, or many gods? Is there a god who created the world? Is there another god who keeps the world going, or is it the same god as the one who created the world? Does god care about us, about humanity or individuals? Is god more like the aboriginal gods, more like the Hindu gods, or more like the Judeo-Christian-Muslim gods? Does your spiritual life or your conviction that there is goodness and justice and value make you think there must be a god, even if you see no other reason for it? Can we have values, or find meaning and purpose, without God? Are we all figments of God’s imagination? Should we pray to God or worship him or her? The next big question is: Does God exist? This Chapter covers Theology, the study of whether one or more Gods exists, and if so what sort of thing God is, or the Gods are. The reasons for believing in some sort of God(s) vary according to what sort of being God is supposed to be. Some arguments in favour of God imply what kind of God it is. There is a lot of overlap between this Chapter and other Chapters in Part 1 and other Parts. · Chapter 1.1 on Epistemology discusses revelation, 1.2 on Metaphysis discusses the supernatural, 1.4 on Minds discusses life after death, and 1.5 on Ethics discusses the origins of goodness. · Part 2 (Science) considers the origins of life, the universe and everything, and belief in God is not required to explain these origins. Nor does cosmology and evolution disprove God’s existence. · Part 4 (Religion) considers the world’s major traditional religions, but the general arguments for and against the existence of God(s) and the supernatural are considered here. We plan to look at how we know what we know under the following topic headings:
This is the current summary of our conclusions in this area: There is no credible reason or evidence to believe in any transcendent god(s) or the supernatural, or any “force” we can tap into that is immanent in the universe and is the source of goodness; and even if there were, that still doesn’t provide an ultimate meaning or purpose for existence itself, so we live with natural reality.  more (later)                                                              Statement 3
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