God

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God is a religious concept typically described as a superhuman spirit.^[1] God is a core and often controversial topic of religious, philosophical, and political discussion.

Origin

Animism is commonly held as the first religion starting arguably around 100,000BC with the first recorded burial act in Qafzeh cave.^[3] It is also one of the broadest religions because it is the belief that a soul or spirit exists in every living being and object including inanimate ones.^[2] Following the basic definition of God being a superhuman spirit, the concept of a God would have thus come from animism. The traditional definition of God being an omnipotent omniscient being with supreme authority and judgement comes from the Aristotle’s Metaphysics^[4] from 350BC^[6] which is considered one of the most important metaphysical works in all of philosophy.^[5] In the book Aristotle conceives of the nature of God:

And life also belongs to God; for the actuality of thought is life, and God is that actuality; and God’s self-dependent actuality is life most good and eternal. We say therefore that God is a living being, eternal, most good, so that life and duration continuous and eternal belong to God; for this is God.

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