(December 31, 2020 at 4:51 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote:(December 31, 2020 at 4:42 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: You're wrong. Souls could exist and have an explanation apart from God. Souls could exist and God not exist. God could exist and souls not exist.Well, yes, it depends on what we mean by God, but I think most people would agree a God cannot be malicious. Of course there can be an afterlife without a God. But I think there can be no God without an afterlife.
Who says the existence of God would make the world just, or that justice requires God to exist? Suppose God prefers an unjust world - he could simply be malicious and the Universe is just God's version of pulling the wings off of flies.
Also, I'm not at all convince that an afterlife is a requirement for justice. Since human beings don't operate on a cosmic scale, we can't possibly have an idea of what this 'cosmic justice' of yours looks like. Additionally, it isn't immediately obvious that an afterlife requires the existence of God.
Boru
Truth is not a democratic proposition. It doesn’t really matter that ‘most people’ think God is not malicious. The mere possibility that God MAY be malicious weakens your argument.
Why can’t there be a God without an afterlife?
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
