existence of God
Supreme being's actuality
The existence of God is the theological and philosophical question of whether a divine being or beings actually exist.
Arguments for God's existence include cosmological arguments (something must have caused the universe), teleological arguments (design implies a designer), and ontological arguments (a perfect being must exist).
Arguments against include the problem of evil and lack of empirical evidence.
The existence of God has been debated for millennia.
The question remains central to religious belief, atheism, and agnosticism alike.
- theismBelief in deity
- faithTrust without proof
- leap of faithTrust without verification
- beliefTrust held as true
- divineOf or from gods
divine being · higher power · creator · first cause · intelligent design · universe · soul · prayer · miracle · act of God · proof · problem of evil · doubt · burden of proof · infinite · sacred · eternal · cosmos
- Religious Debatespredestination, trinity, transubstantiation, original sin, justification
- big questionsmeaning of life, life after death, free will, afterlife, good versus evil
- Cosmological Argumentsfirst cause, prime mover, unmoved mover, Aquinas, Thomas Aquinas
- philosophyethics, logic, metaphysics, ontology, epistemology
- theologyecclesiology, eschatology, Christology, God, dogmatics
existence of Godatheism
Rejection of deities
godlessness · irreligion · antitheism · nontheism · death of God
existence of Godmaterialism
Prioritizing goods over spirit
physicalism · naturalism · random chance · cosmic indifference · reductionism
existence, exist, exists, existing, existed, existent, existential, existentially, existentialism