RE: Q: do you, Christian, claim that God exists, rather than you believe that he exists?
February 26, 2014 at 7:23 pm
(This post was last modified: February 26, 2014 at 7:27 pm by discipulus.)
(February 26, 2014 at 6:46 pm)whateverist Wrote: Really? I would have thought not already feeling that He must exist in combination with not being able to see any indication that He does, would be the best reason not to believe.
No non-theist that I am aware of makes use of the reasons you mention when debating the existence of God in a formal, academic setting i.e. a university.
A good many non-theists who actually debate the issue in academic settings utilize the "Problem of Evil" argument because it is viewed to be the most persuasive positive argument against the existence of God. A good many theists even admit that the argument is powerful because of its existential element.
That is why I said what I said.
(February 26, 2014 at 6:28 pm)Ryantology (╯°◊°)╯︵ ══╬ Wrote: The Problem of Evil doesn't posit that God doesn't exist. It posits that, if he does, he is evil. The character of the Christian god can only get around this by arbitrarily redefining good and evil, rendering such concepts entirely meaningless. It follows that, if you endorse that evil, you share in it.
The problem of evil argument posits that evil and suffering could not exist if God existed and possessed the attributes traditionally ascribed to him in western philosophy. One of those attributes being omnibenevolence.
