June 2018

The Human Limitations of Unreasonable Atheism (Part 15): “The Problem of Evil” (Part B)

Atheism

In the first of the articles appealing to moral evil as proof of God’s impossibility, the author claims belief in God lacks “rational support,” that people must reject reason and ignore the conclusive arguments against Him in order to believe. The “problem of evil,” according to the author, is one such argument. A logical problem, […]

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The Human Limitations of Unreasonable Atheism (Part 14): “The Problem of Evil” (Part A)

Atheism

In the previous two articles we examined examples of “definitional disproofs” of God, including: 1) perfection and a man-made definition of imperfect virtue cannot co-exist in God, and 2) a perfect God who deserves complete submission and worship is incompatible with autonomous human moral agency. Of course, no orthodox theologian would disagree with the first

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The Human Limitations of Unreasonable Atheism (Part 13): “Definitional Disproofs” (Part C)

Atheism

In the previous article we examined the argument that a perfect God must also be a virtuous God, but because virtue involves imperfection, as defined by “ethical theory,” a perfect and virtuous God cannot exist. We come to another example of a “definitional disproof” where the claim states that an omnipotent and perfectly good God

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The Human Limitations of Unreasonable Atheism (Part 12): “Definitional Disproofs” (Part B)

Atheism

We turn, now, to a specific example of a “disproof” where the definition of God is said to contain logically contradictory elements, rendering Him impossible. According to the claim, a perfect God must be virtuous. But virtue, as defined by the ancient Greeks and accepted in “ethical theory,” requires human imperfections. Thus, a perfect and

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