enjoying social relations with other persons. (Christians go on to believe that in being a Trinity, three persons in one, God’s very being is social in character, even apart from his relations to humans and other persons.) So what does it mean to have faith in such a God? Minimally, perhaps, it might mean faith that God exists. Certainly many discussions in the philosophy of religion focus on belief in God as a belief that there is a God. (The locution ‘to believe in X’ is ambiguous; it can mean
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