| | Western Concepts of God [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01) |
 | | Revelation can be linked to religious experience or a type of it, both for the person originally receiving it and the one merely accepting it as authoritative. |
 | | Reason has been taken as ancillary to religious experience and revelation, or on other accounts, as independent and the sole reliable source of concepts of God. |
 | | He did not bring about more good in order that he could be revealed through the greatest range of things, and as well, to allow for certain types of good (such as compassion, which can exist only where there is some suffering). |
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