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Conceptions of God
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<p>Conceptions of God in <a href="/facts/Classical_theism/kKe9Ho3d">classical theist</a>, <a href="/facts/Monotheism/scRUM2It">monotheist</a>, <a href="/facts/Pantheism/jcvmRCAr">pantheist</a>, and <a href="/facts/Panentheism/0hu4rnDr">panentheist</a> traditions – or of the supreme deity in <a href="/facts/Henotheistic/re5UmmVc">henotheistic</a> religions – can extend to various levels of <a href="/facts/Abstraction/p7l9eHGd">abstraction</a>: </p> <ul><li>as a <a href="/facts/Omnipotence/oTD2spBd">powerful</a>, <a href="/facts/Personal_god/7HCJKvau">personal</a>, <a href="/facts/Supernatural/qSlTK0Ss">supernatural</a> being, or as the <a href="/facts/Apotheosis/67vWy7Uv">deification</a> of an <a href="/facts/Western_esotericism/AW5dDFh1">esoteric</a>, <a href="/facts/Mystical/3Rfb7zEd">mystical</a> or <a href="/facts/Philosophical/zAH5PVD6">philosophical</a> entity or category;</li> <li>as the "<a href="/facts/The_Ultimate_(philosophy)/JBCyb0MA">Ultimate</a>", the <i><a href="/facts/Summum_bonum/tUeYPDe9">summum bonum</a></i>, the "Absolute Infinite", the "<a href="/facts/Transcendence_(religion)/7XP571KV">Transcendent</a>", or <a href="/facts/Existence/IRAl4dlu">Existence</a> or <a href="/facts/Being/zwJ4I8Bc">Being</a> itself;</li> <li>as the <a href="/facts/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel/5NXGjvSb">ground of being</a>, the <a href="/facts/Monism/eskX5hbg">monistic</a> substrate, that which we cannot understand; and so on.</li></ul> <p>The first recordings that survive of monotheistic conceptions of <a href="/facts/God/KAykGr3G">God</a>, borne out of <a href="/facts/Henotheism/re5UmmVc">henotheism</a> and (mostly in <a href="/facts/Eastern_religions/eC2l8CSo">Eastern religions</a>) <a href="/facts/Monism/eskX5hbg">monism</a>, are from the <a href="/facts/Hellenistic_period/q6BgQsaF">Hellenistic period</a>. Of the many objects and entities that religions and other belief systems across the ages have labeled as divine, the one criterion they share is their acknowledgment as divine by a group or groups of human beings. </p>