What are all the properties of God such that, if any were missing, that thing would not be God?
For clarity, please refer to http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_of_indiscernibles
Nine answers:
Deja Vu
2012-12-30 21:08:29 UTC
believers of god - no more and no less...
?
2012-12-30 15:27:19 UTC
If patience is missing it definitely cannot be God. But then patience will be a relative term since time cannot be calculated in a way we measure it. Also, the power to turn dead into life, life into death and keep it going for millenniums.
On a personal level I agree with Don H. Summation of all that there is cannot have properties and be devoid of properties.
?
2012-12-30 20:30:21 UTC
If one takes property in a common sense of something belonging to a thing which only belongs to that thing, then (strictly speaking) God does not have any properties. If God is absolutely simple (a la Aristotle/Aquinas), then he is the same with all of his "properties" and the reason we use distinct names for these properties is on account of our mode of knowing which is most appropriate for understanding composite things. (see Summa, Prima Pars, q.3 on divine simplicity and q.13 on divine names)
If you meant property, just in the sense of a predicate which is only said of one thing, then there are many such predicates which belong to God and it would be difficult to make a complete list. Some would be: uncaused, unchanging, simple, omnipotent, omniscient, provident over all, and so on...
≈Jazlyn≈
2012-12-30 14:34:49 UTC
GOD = LOVE
God is the creator, the one that rejects and the one that approves. Can I just expain this one thing? (: -->
God does NOT cause us suffering or pain. We cause it on ourselves because of what we do. He is the one that approves it, he LETS this happen so that we feel suffering-- incontrast with happiness.. So that we learn and we become better people.
PROPERTIES.
The Father, The Son, The Holy Spirit.
In other words, The Trinity. It is what makes God.
And what makes the three of them? Every Good Thing That Ever Existed.
anonymous
2012-12-30 14:15:53 UTC
For god to have properties it would need to be separate from something else. That is it would need to have something outside of what it is to compare and contrast with to show how it is different.
Assuming that your God is the first cause of all that exists, there can be nothing that exists outside of what it is. So there could not logically be anything outside to compare and contrast to.
?
2012-12-30 14:27:37 UTC
God is One
God is Infinite
God is the alpha & omega
God is omnipresent
God is omniscient
Julia
2012-12-30 15:14:15 UTC
god has no property, he does not exist.
anonymous
2012-12-30 14:12:35 UTC
we are God's properties and of course everything else,
?
2012-12-30 14:17:19 UTC
Infinity, timelessness and faith.
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