RE: Arguments against Soul
September 18, 2019 at 5:07 am
(This post was last modified: September 18, 2019 at 5:15 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Your argument is a version of the color blind color scientist, Boru.
If god (like our color scientist) knew every bad fact, everything that doing bad entailed (like every color fact, everything that color sight entailed), then by definition it would understand and know the experience of doing bad (or seeing color) regardless of it's (or her) personal inability. Asserting that god knows everything, but that one thing, directly contradicts the setup and creates the dilemma all by it's one-sies.
On a less grand scale, we don't need to be Superman to know what flying through the air with a cape would feel like, either. I'd run with Grands comments on agency, myself.
If god (like our color scientist) knew every bad fact, everything that doing bad entailed (like every color fact, everything that color sight entailed), then by definition it would understand and know the experience of doing bad (or seeing color) regardless of it's (or her) personal inability. Asserting that god knows everything, but that one thing, directly contradicts the setup and creates the dilemma all by it's one-sies.
On a less grand scale, we don't need to be Superman to know what flying through the air with a cape would feel like, either. I'd run with Grands comments on agency, myself.
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