God
In monotheism, monotheistic thought, God is usually viewed as the supreme being, creator deity, creator, and principal object of Faith#Religious views, faith.Richard Swinburne, Swinburne, R.G. "God" in Ted Honderich, Honderich, Ted. (ed)''The Oxford Companion to Philosophy'', Oxford University Press, 1995. God is typically conceptions of God, conceived as being omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, and omnibenevolent, as well as having an Eternal existence, eternal and Metaphysical necessity, necessary existence. God is often thought to be incorporeality, incorporeal, evoking transcendence (religion), transcendence or immanence. Some religions describe God without reference Gender of God, to gender, while others use terminology that is gender-specific and . God has been conceived as either personal god, personal or impersonal. In theism, God is the creator and God the Sustainer, sustainer of the universe, while in deism, God is the creator, but not the sustainer, of the universe. ...
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Conceptions Of God
Conceptions of God in Monotheism, monotheist, Pantheism, pantheist, and Panentheism, panentheist religions – or of the supreme deity in henotheistic religions – can extend to various levels of abstraction: * as a Omnipotence, powerful, Personal god, personal, supernatural being, or as the Apotheosis, deification of an Esotericism, esoteric, mystical or philosophical entity or category; * as the "The Ultimate (philosophy), Ultimate", the ''summum bonum'', the "Absolute Infinite", the "Transcendence (religion), Transcendent", or Existence or Being itself; * as the ground of being, the Monism, monistic Wiktionary:substrate, substrate, that which we cannot understand; and so on. The first recordings that survive of monotheistic conceptions of God, borne out of henotheism and (mostly in Eastern religions) monism, are from the Hellenistic period. Of the many objects and entities that religions and other belief systems across the ages have labeled as divine, the one crite ...
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