Daoism, Taoism And Confucianism

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THE NATURE OF GOD.
The nature of God shows His characteristics, His attributes and His qualities. These attributes set God aside from human beings and other supernatural beings. It also reveals to us how he deals with mankind. The way he created human beings and made them superior over other creations and the order in which he creates shows his character as a powerful and orderly being. He is described as the Holy Trinity for he is God the father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. It’s significant to all the religions to study the nature of God as all the believers have a stern believe that they came from creation. Their existence is due to the existence of a supreme being that is believed to live in space, water, sky and mountains according to
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Taoists venerate gods, as there doesn't seem to be a place for deities in Taoist thinking.
Daoism has no specific founder because the religion grew out of various religious and also traditions.
In Taoist thinking they do not have a God but are similar to Confucianism the absolute main difference is that Daoism is a religion, while Confucianism is merely a philosophy.
My city is made up of various religions where a specific religion like Christians pray to God and have their days of worship called the Sabbath.
They go to church this day to honour their creator who is God. They sing and dance while praising God.
They get to remember their neighbours, love them and care for them by sharing. The presentation of tithes in churches shows that we give back to God and give him grace through prayers. Islam believes in God whom they called Allah, and that there is one God, and that this oneness is central to their spirituality.
Islam significant belief about (God) Allah in Muslim faith is the concept of oneness Allah his mighty all by himself he has no partners he is omniscient God, the is omnipotent and the one God to all

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