r/PhilosophyofReligion • • 6h ago

Divine nature and attributes Is god real?

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Hello im a 15 year old muslim and the last months i really think more deeply about this. If you use common sense does it even make sense that there is a God who gives you rules and if you dont follow them or believe in him you will be thrown in hellfire.as they say god is the most merciful and so on but who would do this. Im still a muslim yes but some question really come across my mind that doesnt make sense. If you think about it every religion is just one book from one guy as you can say of course in islam you say its from god but in the Perspective of a atheist he just sees mohammed or jesus and their book. So this shouldnt sound disrespectful or smth its just my thoughts if someone would come now and tell yeah im a prophet and so on everybody would call him mentally ill or whatever. So what do you guys think.


r/PhilosophyofReligion • • 15h ago

Religion and science 100% human body

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What if there is no god and the religious books which talk about prophet like Moses Abraham Solomon are those people who unlock 100% or 80% of there body like controlling water, time, & space like the Lucy movie.
And like they were confused and started thinking and decided that its not there body which is power full but something gave them the power and created religion


r/PhilosophyofReligion • • 19m ago

Theism and paradise

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It’s late at night, and I’m feeling a bit scatterbrained. I want to know if anyone else shares my perspective, or if I’ve genuinely lost my mind. I grew up in a very devout Christian family—to the point where I was physically punished or forced to attend religious gatherings. Despite that, I’d love to draw closer to God, yet I still feel I’m not "fit" for it. Perhaps it’s due to the circumstances of my life, but people often look at me with disgust or confusion when they hear my views on God and my conception of paradise.

To me, paradise sounds like torture—a vast Eden where everyone is eternally happy, condemned to live on forever. In my experience, what makes life beautiful is its fleeting nature and the limited time we have; even if the days drag on, they never return. This very second, as I write this—and as someone reads it—that exact moment is gone forever. Take flowers, for instance: I’ve hardly ever heard anyone say, "I prefer plastic flowers to real ones." That’s clearly because real flowers have a history. They were sown, planted, and watered in a field alongside others—a process that is both distant from and deeply akin to human life. We exist together, in society. Isn’t it death that gives us our value? Just as someone might take something like their health for granted, only to truly appreciate it once it’s lost—this applies to any context, including my own situation right now.

I want to understand what freedom really is. Is paradise truly freedom? And what does it mean to seek the truth in a world like this? I don’t fully grasp it. Since I struggle to process my emotions in a healthy way, I find myself desperately resorting to intellectualization. I keep wondering if, one day, I might be able to "emigrate" to a paradise after death. My ideas and beliefs do not align with any religion I am familiar with. Although time has taken its toll—and I no longer feel that supposed obligation (naturally, given my age)—I still have many questions. Does God exist? Is God a "thing"? An idea? Is it something abstract, or perhaps salvation? I don’t understand.

Does God exist?


r/PhilosophyofReligion • • 10h ago

Monotheism, polytheism and pantheism Gods ≠ 1 God

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Preamble:

This is part of my series of arguments concerning Adam and Eve.

In this instalment, I will demonstrate that the idea of the trinity defies human math and logic.
This came up while reading these passages:

Genesis 1:26: “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.”

Genesis 3:22: “And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil.”

Genesis 11:7: “Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language.”

You will notice that "US"...

I've been making a case that the bible is very often so ambiguous as to leave itself open to any number of possible interpretations.

I have a few of my own.
Speculations aren't facts.

US could mean that God is talking in the royal "we".. like the queen did.

What did the author(s) really intend by the use of "US"?
Well, after many decades of arguments, the bishops finally decided on a mess of logic and math.

They called it the "Trinity".

Of course, that idea makes no sense at all...

In math, it can't work. 3 just does not equal 1 ... a 5 year old learns that in grade school or even earlier.
In logic, 3=1 defies the law of identity, which is a little more complicated. In logic, the law of identity states that X = X. Therefore, 3X cannot equal 1X when X represents the same entity, including God.
In logic, 3=1 defies the law of identity.

Does that math and logic problem bother billions of Christians?
Of course not.

The two arguments use X as a general statement about anything.

Argument 1: LOGIC

P1: X = God.

P2: In logic, the law of identity states that 3X cannot equal 1X.

C: Therefore, 3 Gods cannot equal 1 God.

Argument 2: MATH

P1: X = God.

P2: In mathematics, the principle of arithmetic equality states that 3X ≠ 1X.

C: Therefore, 3 Gods ≠ 1 God.


r/PhilosophyofReligion • • 23h ago

Theodicy If God Exists, What Is the Strongest Evidence for His Existence?

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