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I think that the question of God is one of the most important question in the history of philosophy. there are sides, of course, as it is true for almost every topic, e.g the best political system, the best way to happiness, whether there can be a normatiive morality.

I think many of those topics, need the place of a Supernatural being, or metaphysics. We can not say that the question of God, is a non philosophical issue and cannot accept philosophical inquiry.
Plato was a believer, although his society was a politheist one, and he justified this with philosophical inquiry.

Another point is that religions, also have philosophical, (and in the case of Islam), political, ethical, projects which can be criticized from a philosophical perspective.

But of course there are philosophers who reject the area of metaphysics, assuming the laws of nature as the ultimate reality, and rejecting the notions that cannot be understood by physical means, "out of sight, out of might"

We, human beings (especially Western philosophy) tend to explain reality from our sides "metron panton antropos"

HUman need metaphysics to understand the existence, at least they have to be open to discuss. It is also logically necessary for us to have something that cannot be experienced by our bodies, and five senses. Even Materialists argued that the matter was pre-eternal -which is something that we cannot experience by our physical existence-, since was is necessary for being -the chain of causes- to start in a certain place, or go to pre-eternity. This is not very different than the pre-eternity of God.

I think philosophy should not be dogmatized as an alternative religion -with dogmas(for some people) like evolution theory or steady-state theory)-. The science should not be either atheistic and evolutionary, at least for its scientific adequacy and proficiency, since it is not proven yet.

to sum up, I think the question of God, is not something that can not be something unquestable -philosophically-. If we say so we have to say that, "yes the best political system depends person to person, so it is meaningless to discuss it in a philosophical framework.

When it comes to the issue of the "paradox", I think it is a rethorical question, since it logically wants nothing, an empty set.

If God has infinite power, there can be no quantity greater, logically.
There can be no number bigger than infinite, since every quantity added to infinite (it may not be the exact term), is not actually highering its quantity.
It is like asking "can GOd create an married bachelor?, or A triangle with four sides?, since "a bachelor must be unmarried to remain in this category", or the shape which had three sides is on axiomatic( artificial word, I hope it fits) background, is called a "triangle".

Thank you for reading.

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