Poll: Basic Theology

[Quintessence]

There's good reason why I don't talk about theology in terms of "believing in" gods. Part of it is because Paganisms on the whole are just not faith-based (e.g., they are not about "believing in" things). That tends to happen when gods are various aspects of reality that are readily observed by anyone with senses to detect said reality. Nah, Paganism is more about what relationship we have to these greater powers that exist within our reality, whether it's the tides and seasons or the grip of rage and passion.

 

[Aupmanyav]

I would contend that you if you believe in God because of "good arguments" you must have some "knowledge" of God. Since all beliefs can be broken into what is known and what is faith. I think if there are "good arguments" that support your existence of God, you must be both theist and gnostic, in varying degrees. But based on what you said I would also argue that you don't like to use faith as a rationale to believe in God. In any case I would say that you're theist rather than atheist.

You have missed one thing, and that is that I am a strong atheist Hindu. Yes, I find no rationale to believe in existence of Gods/Goddesses.
I was talking about theist Hindus who believe that they have arguments for existence of supernatural entity/entities.
As some one said (perhaps you) that I am a 'gnostic atheist'. In Hinduism, there are 'gnostic theists' too.

The foremost book that gives the arguments about existence of a supernatural entity is 'Brahma Sutra'. It consists of 555 aphoristic (short one-line) verses. It is very serious study. Various authors have commented on it including the great First Sankaracharya (8th Century).
I do not think you will be interested in such a study, but here are a two links for it:

https://www.swami-krishnananda.org/bs_0/Brahma_Sutra.pdf

https://estudantedavedanta.net/Brahma%20Sutras%20-%20According%20to%20Sri%20Sankara%20by%20Swami%20Vireswarananda%20%5BSanskrit-English%5D.pdf

 

[shunyadragon]

I reluctantly chose ]Theist, Agnostic, Pistevist: Believes in God based solely on faith of God., and found all choices problematic/

My issues are from the Universalist perspective is IF God is a omnipotent, all powerful Creator God the question is which God is the real God given the many diverse conflicting beliefs in God from many cultural perspectives throughout history. Each of the diverse conflicting cultural beliefs in God claim that their God is the one 'True' God. The logical reasonable choice is either God is an unknown universal 'Source' exists beyond the perspective of any one conflicting religion or faith, or all the different religions and beliefs are human creations that evolve over time as the devotion to the sense of cultural belonging and identity that there is life and spiritual worlds beyond our physical world. This would explain the evolving diversity of the view of God over the millennia as human culture and society evolves.

Therefore several of the choices may be logical and reasonable, and at the same time questionable