On Dec 24, 2015, at 8:28 PM, Carl G. Estabrook wrote:
> For “God,” as an existent in the universe (i.e., God plus the universe make two things), this is probably true.
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> But not for ‘God’ as the label we put on the answer to the question (which we do not know), “Why is there anything, instead of nothing?”
Then it's a placeholder, and should be written "god," not "God," which as a proper noun must purport to refer to some named entity.
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64