RE: Benevolent Creator God?
August 7, 2021 at 3:23 pm
(This post was last modified: August 7, 2021 at 3:24 pm by R00tKiT.)
(August 7, 2021 at 3:07 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: No. You need some way to demonstrate divinity as the cause. God either divinely spoke to someone, as you claim, or he didn’t. If you have no way of showing that he did, then neither you nor anyone else has good reason to believe that he did. You don’t get to use the details (“content” if you will) of a claim about a divine experience to prove the cause of the experience was divine. That’s question-begging as far as I can tell.
Why is it circular? If these details contain material that is unlikely to be the product of the local environment, then these details couldn't have come from the individuals claiming they are prophets. If what's in the Qur'an couldn't have been compiled from the available knowledge back then, then the Qur'an must have come from some other source.
Since we are presupposing God here, God either allowed this other source to deceive people and send a message under God's name -in this case the deity would't be benevolent, and thus it's useless to investigate about its existence -, or this source is God Himself.