God’s hiddenness has prompted some theists to provide an explanation for God’s silence. Such hiddenness seems to be closely tied with disbelief, which is a form of sin for most Christians, so why has God allows such conditions to prevail?
Murray intends to show that some resoltions can be made to hiddenness.
A free-will theodicy claims that [...]
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Murray: Coercion and the Hiddenness of God
Posted in Ethics, Religion, free will, tagged divine hiddenness, free will, god, responsibility on June 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Does Divine Hiddenness Justify Atheism?
Posted in Religion, tagged agnosticism, atheism, divine hiddenness, god, love, theism on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Peterson’s paper is briefly an attack on theism from the angle of Divine Hiddenness. He says that a mother, who’s gargantuan love for her child, would not let that child suffer her absence if she could help it. And this goes for God too. He would not hide from us if we truly wanted to [...]
Against the Fine-Tuning Argument
Posted in Religion, tagged bayesian argument, bradley, fine tuning, god, swinburne on June 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the second paper, Bradley aims to put forward a more detailed objection to the fine-tuning argument than other papers had in the past. In short, the first bulk of the paper discusses what he calls the ‘common form’ of the fine-tuning argument which appeals to the sheer improbability of the various conditions of life [...]
Divine Omnipotence
Posted in Religion, tagged god, omnipotent, power, Religion, sin on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
THOMAS MORRIS; A MODERN DISCUSSION OF DIVINE OMNIPOTENCE
In Christianity, it is said that ‘with God all things are possible’, but what does this mean?
What is the magnitude of God’s power?
1. God can do everything-Entails god can create spherical cubes. When you have the expression of a logical impossibility, you end up with nothing that can [...]
