Love: God’s All-Pervasive Attribute
Introduction
Beyond the theist-non-theist debate is the stalemate. Little development has been made over the years in this important struggle of the philosophers of religion, who are divided into two major legions: the theists and the non-theists (also known as the anti-theists, although this term implies a more active opposition against theism, and may mean to exclude agnostics). The non-theists are further divided, and not superficially: the atheists, who argue for the jettisoning of the concept of God in human reality and affairs, and the agnostics, who are more passive in hunting out God –indeed, they may be rightly called the third, albeit boring, party in this intellectual struggle. These divisions have had their share in the discussion on the relevance of God in human life. And now, it seems that the fight is at its theoretical end with the stalemate, the end of potent arguments that spice up the raunchy debate – and the focus has shifted to the real battleground: culture.
Relativism has brokered an uneasy peace between the two active parties, and has handed over prominence to the third (i.e. agnosticism). Everyone to his own opinion, and the theist is as factually correct (subjectively, of course) as the sacrilegious anti-theist.
But of course, this is not going to bring any growth in the understanding of man. Truth-value, as this writer has always insisted, is exclusive in its relation, that is, no two opposing things can be both entirely true in their respective entities. One has to yield to the other, with that other becoming a norm for the first being or idea. Someone has to be wrong.
And no one could be more wrong than those who factually oppose the concept of God. But to prove this assertion, it is ne ...