RE: Four proofs of the nonexistence of God
July 19, 2017 at 12:36 pm
(This post was last modified: July 19, 2017 at 12:54 pm by Jehanne.)
(July 19, 2017 at 8:21 am)SteveII Wrote:(July 18, 2017 at 4:38 pm)mordant Wrote:
Then I take it you do not believe your god to be infinite or eternal. Because that would be absurd.
I was explaining a math problem on using a infinite number of something that would be analogous to the original post discussing an infinite number of causes and effects. God, as a timeless and changeless being, does not run into the logical absurdity that the math illustrates.
You (and Dr. Craig) need to stop thinking of infinite sets as being a one-sized-fits-all (or, equinumerous); that's a 19th-century view. Of course, mathematicians know better:
Remember Craig's quote from Vilenkin, "A proof is what it takes to convince an unreasonable man..."
Cosmological models are countable infinities. Just as space may be without beginning or end, so, too, time may be without beginning or end. As Professor Wes Morriston has conclusively shown (and, Craig has hardly responded to Morriston), actual infinities exist in the realm of theism, and so, the existence of an "actual infinite" is not a logical impossibility:
http://spot.colorado.edu/~morristo/selected-papers.html
Craig loves to equivocate; it's his favorite logical fallacy, however, no one within the Academy is buying it:
http://www.skepticink.com/reasonablyfait...-infinity/
(July 19, 2017 at 12:04 pm)Lek Wrote:(July 19, 2017 at 10:10 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: I've read the whole thing cover-to-cover twice, many parts more times that I can put a number to. Why will humans with free will never sin in heaven? A third of the angels rebelled, if angels can't be 100% on board the God train in heaven with free will, how are humans supposed to manage it?
An eternity in heaven seems to be guaranteed if and only if you never use your free will to sin once you're there. Clearly it's possible to use your free will to sin once you get there. And it seems pretty clear that if you do, you'll be kicked out. The Bible is not nearly as clear on this matter as you make it out to be.
I don't know. For one thing, we'll be on the new earth and not in heaven. I tend to think that it is the absence of evil choices. I think God purposely allowed Satan to sin.
Quote:Which leaves the Alzheimer's question unanswered. If there is a part of us that remembers things after we're dead, why can't it remember things when we're alive?
The soul will live in a physical body.
In a person with Alzheimer's who has forgotten the names of their grandchildren (or, that they even have grandchildren), does the "soul" remember the names of those kiddos?
From Wes Morriston's site ("Doubts about the Kalām Cosmological Argument", emphasis mine):
Quote:A favorite verse of a much loved hymn comes to mind:
When we’ve been there ten thousand years,
Bright shining as the sun,
We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise,
Than when we first begun.
Of course, we shall never arrive at a time at which we have already said infinitely many heavenly praises. At each stage in the imagined future series of praises, we’ll have said only finitely many. But that makes no difference to the point I am about to make. If you ask, "How many distinct praises will be said?" the only sensible answer is, infinitely many.