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Originally Posted by Andrea
What do we mean by "God's existence"?
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The question: Does God exist?
And in my opinion the correct response (which you rightly identify) should always be to answer with the following question:
How are we defining God for the sake of the present argument?
After all, there are several ways, each of which might elicit a quite different response or provoke a quite different discussion...
- God as described in the Old/New Testament, the Qu'ran, or other holy books?
- God merely as a Being who (note the pronouns here) concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings?
- God merely as some unifying spiritual force that connects every living thing?
- God merely as a synonym for 'whatever created everything that exists'?
- God merely as a synonym for 'everything that exists'?
- etc.
Only then can we can go on to explore:
- the question of God's existence.
- the question of whether it's even possible for humans to know the answer to such a question!