God as “Ground of Being” – Paul Tillich

Paul Tillich criticizes God as a way of existence or existence. He feels that if God is present, God can not be properly called a source of all beings (which in turn will create God's problem). As an alternative, he suggested that God is understood as "the foundation of existence itself"

Because people can not deny existence (we and our world exist), he feels that there is power of existence. God sees God as the basis for the existence of all things. Therefore, God is before "existence", and God appears in the structure of all existence.

Tillich believes that the symbol is the only way to imagine God-like meaning and abstraction. He regards God as a symbol and highly appreciates the image of the individual gods as a way for people to connect and respond to the place of existence. Likewise, he believes that the theme of Christian images may still be meaningful by rethinking the literally accepted story.

Tillich believes that the root of atheism is to reject traditional images (existence / existence of God), he thinks that another symbolic image may be considered acceptable

To Tillich, God itself exists, not exist. In order to explain the relationship between the existence itself and the finite existence, Tillich accepted the word "ground". For Tillich, God is the foundation of existence, the foundation of existence structure. God itself is the basis of existential theory of existence. In other words, every ontology has its own power to participate in the essence of existence. All the explanation of God is expressed through what we understand. Can we know God? For Tillich, the answer is obvious. Using analogy theory (analogy exists), ie "everything is included in infinite existence itself" (239), analogy theory explains the possibility of knowing God and speaking. But for Tillich, this analogy proves that we can say the way about God only in the fact that "God must be understood as myself" (240).

Paul Tillich criticizes God as a way of existence or existence. He feels that if God is present, God can not be properly called a source of all beings (which in turn will create God's problem). As an alternative, he suggested that God is understood as "the foundation of existence itself". Tillich believes that the symbol is the only way to imagine God-like meaning and abstraction. He regards God as a symbol and highly appreciates the image of the individual gods as a way for people to connect and respond to the place of existence. Likewise, he believes that the theme of Christian images may still be meaningful by rethinking the literally accepted story.

<http://philosopher.io/Atheism-Fundamentalism-Paul-Tillich-s-God-Part-1> Paul Tillich is famous for his own concept. However, this concept is as old as theology and words go back to Parmenides. After discovering the 19th century hundreds of years later, Tillich used it as his own and applied it to God, Christology and Trinity doctrine in his apology system theology. His theology responds to the questions raised by the philosophy arising from our universal ultimate concern - the finiteness of life in the shadow of eternal death, in particular existentialist existentialism. This answer is revealed to be ecstatic as YHWH. Prior to YHWH, transcend the existence, rationality and relationship between subject and subject, new atheistic scientific argument and failure of the god hypothesis