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In the definitions that have been applied to God by various theologians, scientists, and an assortment of other interested parties, such definitions range from the commonsense to the intellectually driven phenomenological ones, all the way to the highly esoteric. In most cases, the absolutists are those who offer the most commonplace definitions acknowledging God’s existence—take it or leave it. On the other hand, intellectually minded philosophers and theologians who are life-long believers or who have spent significant time thinking about God, offer definitions that seem to have been formulated in especially original ways. Such thinking emerges as intelligently egalitarian, ever interesting in their Godly definitions, and hypothetically could not immediately be dismissed as wrong. As such, original thinking by Freud might be considered by like-minded nonbelievers to be absolutely correct and proof positive that a true God does not exist. So too, original and sophisticated thinking by theists might be considered by like-minded people also to be absolutely correct and proof positive that a true God does indeed exist.
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Kellerman, H. (2013). God and Belief. In: The Discovery of God. SpringerBriefs in Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4364-3_6
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