(October 26, 2012 at 12:11 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Something that may lead me to Atheism is the following argument:
Infinite greatness is not possible for beings that come to exist after not existing.
The greatest type of praise/value is that which is earned.
Eternal praise/value is not earned.
Therefore praise/value that is finite is greater then infinite praise that is not earned.
Since finite praise earned is greater then eternal praise not earned, there cannot possible be eternal being that is greater then all finite beings.
God is defined to be eternal and greatest possible being, and is therefore impossible to exist.
Counter argument:
How do you objectively know earned praise is greater then non-earned praised if there is no ultimate basis to praise?
I don't know the answer, but I feel it's intuitive the more you think about it, that earned praise is greater then non-earned praise.
"Infinite greatness"??
A concept has to be sensible to be evaluated. Putting two words together do not a sensible concept make.
Making practical things contingent upon the outcome of a churlish demand for evaluation of a concept that is utterly unfit to be evaluated makes you an irreparably confused man.
