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JAINA CONCEPT OF GOD IN JAINA THEISM
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ingenious arrangement of the bones of bodies of men and animals, lid of eyes, semi-spheres of brain, the wonderful arrangement of arteries in the body, become puzzled and when they are unable to explain the phenomena, they come to believe that none but God can create these thing and therefore call God the creator of the Universe, but they do not know that by making this statement they bring about the destruction of God.
VI. (viii) The Concept of God in Indian and Western Theism and
Atheism (a) God in theistic philosophy
Theism means belief in God and where God is believed, it is also believed that upon God everything else depends, and thus without discussions of 'God', of world, of 'soultheism is not justified.
A detailed survey of the history of theism reflects approaches and attitudes towards human freedom, immortality and their conception of God. What is most interesting to note, in medieval and modern times, is the fact that theism has been much simplified and attention has been concentrated upon God?
Subsequently to this, as a second step, the question: Does God exist? Has been to theistic proofs replied “Yes”. Theism deals with “What is God, for the simplest reason that it believes in existence of God. What then is God?
Leading argument here is the cosmological concluding to God as cause. In its “Great first cause” we recognize God. This argument, for the first time, is found well formulated in Aristotle's philosophy. This argument, though never considered isolated was the main one for intuitionalism as well as for empiricist theism. From moral element point of view we find “as against empiricism,
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