Historically many philosophers who are considered great have been monotheistic and their philosophy geared towards a hierarchy with God at the top. Plato,aristotle,descartes,Berkley,kant,newton,and others.
How do you view this?
Where these guys deficient in their logic or where they on to something? — Trinidad
A different problem would be this: Imagine if more than one god is possible. All are omnipotent of course. If one commands there to be rain in Seattle and another commands there be no rain in Seattle then, it would have to both rain and not rain in Seattle. This is a logical contradiction. Our assumption that more than one god is possible is false. There can be only ONE god. QED. — TheMadFool
If most of the greatest reasoners arrived at the conclusion that there is one god who is omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent, — Bartricks
If most of the greatest reasoners arrived at the conclusion that there is one god who is omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent, then I think one is well justified in taking very seriously that there is such a being. — Bartricks
I'll start: omnipotence means able to do all, or anything. Omnibenevolence means all good. Omni/all means all, not some or part. An all good being would be unable to do anything not good, for if he did, then he would not be all good. — tim wood
Do you think that the two can be reconciled? — Jack Cummins
I do think that your earlier point about the idea of thinking about many gods being ruled by a higher one is interesting, but it is probably more in line with polytheism, — Jack Cummins
I think that it can be a source of confusion for people. On one hand, the God image represented by Christ appears to be full of compassion, but the God of the OT as angry. — Jack Cummins
Of course, in some ways he was a cult figure, and I don't think that his ideas are really taken very seriously. — Jack Cummins
At times, I was floundering in a sea of all kinds of weird and wonderful possibilities. — Jack Cummins
Omnipotence implies omnibenevolence — Bartricks
So in defining God as omnibenevolent one is not making her a utilitarian. — Bartricks
Look, why don't you read what I say? — Bartricks
I definitely agree that God is under no obligation to be good at all times — Apollodorus
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