(April 5, 2014 at 4:27 pm)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: But the contradiction is only between the atheist view of God and the world as is. There is no contradiction between the theist view of God and the world as is. Your statement above would, suggest, be more accurate as
It calls into question the way the world is compared to how We think it should be if a perfect being exists.
That introduces two potential weak links, our view of what a perfect world would be and God. A theist will pretty much always decide that our view of the perfect world which is wrong rather than God.
Er, no. That is almost comically silly. The formulation of the very concept of God and related religious doctrines is done by theists. Demonstrating contradictions between those and the world has nothing to do with it merely being from the atheists' viewpoint. Why do you think that religious apologists even admit that the Problem of Evil is probably the strongest atheistic argument? Because even they recognize its potency from even their own perspective.
Quote:It's a fantastic argument to reinforce an atheists beliefs but damn all use to challenge a Christian's. Which is what it's for isn't it?
Are you saying that the Problem of Evil has never shaken a theist's faith? As someone who was such a theist really affected by this argument, I find that self-evidently absurd. Worse, the recognition of the potency of this argument is evident even within the Bible in both Psalms and the Book of Job.
