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God is thus "the eminent individual, concretely actualized in an eminent form of actuality, one aspect of which is eminent possibility or futurity. 'Eminence' can be defined as 'unsurpassability by another,' the last two words indicating that self-surpassing is compatible with eminence," provided that it is "the eminent form of self-surpassing" and that "there must also be an eminent form of 'unsurpassability even by self'" (Hartshorne).

Wiki Markup"\[A\]ll abstractions and possibilities are contained in concrete actuality, all past actuality \ [is containedl in present actuality, and all ordinary actuality \ [is contained\] in divine actuality. Thus quite literally all reality is \ [contained\] in God. And yet both God and every other individual have some creative freedom .... \ [God) is an individual, eminently acting upon and receiving influences from the nondivine individuals. The 'glory of God' is neither God apart from the world, nor the world and God, but the world taken into the divine life. And this life is genuinely such. It has a settled past and a future open to endless further enrichment" (Hartshorne).

Anyone who says that she or he has no faith in God, and yet goes on living, thereby shows that she or he has faith in something. Let her or him explain what that something is, and a theist will hold that, unless it is explained to be God, it will not fit the faith that she or he has in it.

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