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how do we describe god

Classical proofs for God. Ontological argumentCosmological argumentTeleological argumentMoral argument. Ontological argument. Implanted in human beings mind is the idea that God existsAnselm (1033-1109)Rene Descartes (1596-1650). Cosmological argument. Creation's majesty, order and wonderThere must be a cause adequate to account for the universePlatoThomas Aquinas (1225-1274).

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how do we describe god

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    1. How do we describe God? Howard Culbertson Southern Nazarene University

    3. Ontological argument Implanted in human beings mind is the idea that God exists Anselm (1033-1109) Rene Descartes (1596-1650)

    4. Cosmological argument Creation’s majesty, order and wonder There must be a cause adequate to account for the universe Plato Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

    5. Teleological argument Appearance of developing purpose in the universe Newton

    6. Moral argument The voice in the heart of human beings calling them to do right Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)

    7. The “omni” attributes Omniscient Omnipotent Omnipresence

    8. Do the “omni” attributes distort our understanding of God? They “owe their existence to abstract analysis and deductive logic about what God ‘must be in order to be God.’ . . . Is such a God a philosophical construction, the idealistic invention of human minds rather than the living God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob?” Michael Lodahl

    9. If the Incarnation is true, then . . . “Divine power is not a ruling fist, but an open, bleeding hand” -- Michael Lodahl

    10. Alan Tippett describes God Methodist missionary and anthropologist “I had not been very long on the mission field before I saw that . . .over-intellectualized religion had to go.” (1984) Tippett described God in ways other than with the “omni” doctrines. He says . . .

    11. I believe in . . . God a living God a saving God a communicating God a God who knows and can be known a providing God a God who makes life meaningful

    12. How do we describe God?(end) Howard Culbertson Southern Nazarene University

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