โ Scribed by James F. Harris
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
It is not impossible that to some infinitely superior being the whole universe may be as one plain, the distance between planet and planet being only as the pores in a grain of sand, and the spaces between system and system no greater than the intervals between one grain and the grain adjacent.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
According to the classical conception of God within Christian theology, a cluster of unique attributes is predicated of God. The list of attributes is a familiar one to those familiar at all with the Judeo-Christian tradition. Metaphysical attributes such as omnipotence, omniscience, perfection, eternality and creation ex nihilo are combined with such moral attributes as omnibenevolence to give the unique content to the classical conception of God within Judeo-Christian thought. Throughout the ages, writers and thinkers have focused a great deal of attention upon this set of attributes -mainly concerning problems arising from questions concerning the internal consistency of the set. For example, the problem of evil is usually cast as one which focuses upon the internal consistency of God's attributes when the existence of evil in the world is taken into account. Unfortunately, from one standpoint, the problem of evil has so completely dominated recent mainstream theodicy that any investigation or analysis into God's nature or attributes is
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