RE: A simple challenge for atheists
January 29, 2015 at 5:09 pm
(This post was last modified: January 29, 2015 at 5:11 pm by SteveII.)
(January 29, 2015 at 4:40 pm)Esquilax Wrote: And you don't think it's a little dishonest of you to list generic characteristics for a deistic god in order to co-opt any alternative we propose (alternatives, I might add, that are rhetorical in nature, designed to show just how unjustified your own beliefs are) while you actually believe in a specific christian god that has more characteristics than just that basic set, of which our hypothetical alternatives can differ and wouldn't just be another name for your god specifically?
I listed only qualities needed to be the first cause and creator of the universe--which is all that the cosmological/ontological/design arguments deal with. You tell me which characteristics are superfluous or which I might need to add.
(January 29, 2015 at 4:55 pm)LostLocke Wrote: Why would a god have to avoid infinite regression?
If it can't infinitely regress, it's omnipotence would have to come under serious question.
Huh??