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The differences that I perceive between religious God and Spinozian God are that, he presented the fundamental elements of what he depicted as a God. For him God is the infinite, necessarily existing, the only substance in the universe which has infinite attribute which is infinite in number.
Spinoza gave four arguments to prove existence of God or Nature:
• Infinite substance is clear and distinct idea, we are finite and god is infinite, then we cannot reached to infinity to know whether there is god or not, so the idea of god is absolutely free from any type of contradiction as when we cannot contradict then it existence can’t be questioned, hence existence of god is possible
• As finite being, we are only producing finite being then we are going down the finite as but world is infinite.
• World is infinite, which contain so …show more content…

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