RE: A "meta-argument" against all future arguments for God's existence ?
February 26, 2022 at 8:45 pm
(February 26, 2022 at 8:28 pm)Klorophyll Wrote:(February 26, 2022 at 8:16 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 3 doesn’t follow from 2, nor can it be called a ‘restatement’ of 2. One can be ‘rationally justified’ in believing in God without God making his existence known.
Boru
Easy proof:
4. God made his existence known to someone before T.
5. (From 4.) At least one person is justified in believing in God before T.
The contraposition of the conditional statement (4.->5.) is (non-5. -> non-4.), which is exactly (2.->3.). QED.
I saw you palm that card. God making his existence known is not conditional on the argument for God’s existence. And vice versa.
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