divine being

What sounds like an absurd question is actually a starting point for a fascinating history of mathematical attempts to prove or disprove the existence of a divine being.

In fact, over the centuries, several mathematicians have repeatedly tried to prove the existence of a divine being.

If there is a divine being, and one believes in it, one ends up in paradise; otherwise one goes to hell.

Thus, the possibility of a divine being must be real.

Now the mathematician turns for the first time to the definition of a divine being: x is divine if it possesses all positive properties φ.