(October 24, 2010 at 7:27 am)Welsh cake Wrote:(October 17, 2010 at 8:10 pm)dave4shmups Wrote: The doctrine of the self-existence of God is one that I was clinging to when I was a Christian, but I don't know how to refute it. I did join "Ask an Atheist" on Facebook, and asked there, but I haven't gotten a reply yet.It's not your burden to go around disproving every single claim made about the supernatural otherwise you'd be indeterminate about all kinds of positions and constantly doubting yourself; disbelief is the default position when faced with extraordinary doctrines such as the Aseity of God.
You don't need refuters but confirmers to support an argument, its R.C. Sproul's burden of proof, not yours, that must be fulfilled. I could just as easily state the Invisible Pink Unicorn is self-existent, she has always been, we are not truly physical, but dreams in her never-ending subconscious. Like Sproul, if I can't provide evidence to support this, if I can't meet my obligation to reach a justifiable conclusion, what reason do you have to accept my premises as true?
Yeah, you're right-it's not my burden of proof; I never thought of it that way. Oh, and as to what Christians think god is, as an ex-christian, I can tell you all that they think he is a spirit-where, I don't know!
