RE: Four arguments against the existence of God
September 23, 2014 at 3:05 pm
(This post was last modified: September 23, 2014 at 3:14 pm by Mudhammam.)
(September 23, 2014 at 2:23 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Do you have any proof that a perfect world is possible while still maintaining human free agency? Without that, the objection from evil drops away.The Problem of Evil, Christians, and Inconsistency
Even Christian theism asserts that this is not the best of all possible worlds. And certainly it's not difficult to conceive of a world with far less suffering, perhaps none at all, without eliminating "free agency."
(September 23, 2014 at 2:23 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: My view allows for the possibility that the physical universe could indeed be eternal. However, anyone can see that the physical universe sits within a larger reality that also includes non-physical features like subjective experience and meaning.You're either claiming that all subjective experience is non-physical, which is of course, plainly silly and buys you nothing, or else you'll have to elaborate on what "non-physical" means in the context you are using it in. Same with meaning. There's nothing non-physical about meaning as it is understood as an abstract thought or intention, which are only observed to be properties of physical systems (humans), albeit limited to the first-person vantage point of said system, not outside of it (Is this how God exists? In the mind only perhaps?).
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza