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Deity. A deity or god is a supernatural being considered to be sacred and worthy of worship due to having authority over the universe, nature or human life. [1][2] The Oxford Dictionary of English defines deity as a god or goddess, or anything revered as divine. [3] C.
God. Representation (for the purpose of art or worship) of God in (left to right from top) Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, Sikhism, and the BaháΚΌí Faith. In monotheistic belief systems, God is usually viewed as the supreme being, creator, and principal object of faith. [1] In polytheistic belief systems, a god is "a spirit or being ...
e. In Christianity, God is the eternal, supreme being who created and preserves all things. [5] Christians believe in a monotheistic, trinitarian conception of God, which is both transcendent (wholly independent of, and removed from, the material universe) and immanent (involved in the material universe). [6]
Abrahamic religions. The Abrahamic God in this sense is the conception of God that remains a common attribute of all three traditions. God is conceived of as eternal, omnipotent, omniscient and as the creator of the universe. God is further held to have the properties of holiness, justice, omnibenevolence and omnipresence.
God entered English when the language still had a system of grammatical gender.The word and its cognates were initially neutral but underwent transition when their speakers converted to Christianity, "as a means of distinguishing the personal God of the Christians from the impersonal divine powers acknowledged by pagans."
This definition of God creates the philosophical problem that a universe with God and one without God are the same, other than the words used to describe it. Deism and panentheism assert that there is a God distinct from, or which extends beyond (either in time or in space or in some other way) the universe.
In Classical Latin, deus (feminine dea) was a general noun [1] referring to a deity, while in technical usage a divus or diva was a figure who had become divine, such as a divinized emperor. In Late Latin, Deus came to be used mostly for the Christian God. It was inherited by the Romance languages in Galician and Portuguese Deus, Catalan and ...
Atheism is the lack of belief in supernatural powers such as deities, gods, goddesses, and messiahs. Some atheists express an active disbelief or rejection of the existence of such entities. Non-theism. Non-theism is the belief in no gods or god. Agnosticism.