(July 5, 2015 at 7:45 pm)Mr.wizard Wrote:(July 5, 2015 at 7:43 pm)Metis Wrote: Exactly. If God as described in traditional theologies is all knowing, he can't be all good because he's designed people explicitly for eternal torment in hell.Wait you understood that response? What the hell was he saying?
If he is all good then he can't be all knowing, because what good guy would create something knowing it would exist solely to be tortured forever and ever?
This isn't actually an atheist argument, but a very popular liberal Christian one. They use it not to show that God doesn't exist, but that the popular conception of him logically has to be mistaken.
I think he was saying that God knows most of humanity is going to end up in hell, and if he is all knowing he knew before he created anything.