The second of the “doctrinal disproofs” presented in The Impossibility of God claims that the God of the Bible does not exist because His actions in the Old Testament, as well as His ultimate judgment on sinners in hell, are grossly immoral. [1] According to the author, Satan is merely guilty of a few misdemeanors, […]
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The Human Limitations of Unreasonable Atheism (Part 17): “Doctrinal Disproofs” (Part A)
We turn now to what the editors of The Impossibility of God call “doctrinal disproofs” of the existence of God, the claim that certain teachings or the acts of God contained in Scripture are inconsistent with God’s attributes. According to the author of “The Paradox of Eden,” God’s test of Adam of Eve in the […]
The Human Limitations of Unreasonable Atheism (Part 16): “The Problem of Evil” (Part C)
As promised, we turn now to examine a few problems with “the problem of evil” (moral evil, for our purposes), the claim that says if God has infinite power and can easily eliminate evil, and if He is perfectly good He would always want to eliminate evil. But since evil exists, God must be less […]
