Questions tagged [existence-of-god]
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Are there published rebuttals of Patrick Flynn's recent book "The Best Argument for God"?
The Best Argument for God, by Patrick Flynn, was recently published on October 17th, 2023. With only 21 votes on Amazon so far, it has garnered an average rating of 4.9 (as of March 25th, 2024). Does ...
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Does the argument from order apply to God?
Lots of people consider the universe to be too complex, ordered, structured, and too advanced to have come about, without a designer. However, isn’t God the most complex, ordered, structured, and the ...
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If God is non-physical, does God become unnecessary as a cause? [closed]
If God does physical things, those physical things presumably have preceding physical causes. Eventually, one of those physical causes will have a non physical cause that will be God Themselves or ...
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Is atheism religion with all attributes? [closed]
To people who are believers, that science proved that God doesn’t exists, I want to remind that science tell that consciousness doesn’t exist too, however obviously consciousness exists.
I guess ...
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Can Reformed Epistemology be considered a special variant of mysticism?
First, some definitions (feel free to skip this part if you are already familiar with the concepts):
Reformed Epistemology
In the philosophy of religion, Reformed epistemology is a school of ...
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What's the reason to live in this life?
I'm scared of life too much.
What will happen after this life ends? Even in this life, what is happening? Are we just some animals who have higher consciousness and are interacting with each other? ...
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Is there a stalemate between Skeptical Theism and The Evidential Problem of Evil?
Skeptical Theism:
Skeptical theism is the view that God exists but that we should be skeptical of our ability to discern God’s reasons for acting or refraining from acting in any particular instance. ...
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Does the Problem of Evil address God's existence or his character?
The Problem of Evil, as most of us know, can be stated like this:
God is the all-powerful and all-benevolent creator of the universe.
Evil exists in that universe.
If God is all-powerful, and yet ...
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Do the Abrahamic faiths solve the argument from evil?
There is the proposition that if evil exists in the world then how could an omnipotent, omnipresent God allow that evil to happen.
The Abrahamic faiths propose that God created the garden of Eden ...
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Can God's existence be established through reason and publicly accessible evidence?
Is it possible for an ordinary individual possessing sound cognitive faculties and access to publicly available evidence to establish the existence of a God? Is there a prevailing consensus in ...
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Can we be only certain that we have free will if there is no God?
I deduce there could be these permutations of the universe.
Temporally, it is either bounded or unbounded.
If it is bounded, then it is possible God could exist to have created the universe. If God ...
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Can there be Art without an Artist? [closed]
I'm by far not an artist.
However my interpretation of Art is.
Man creates Art that is a depiction of the world we occupy. This depiction of Art is meant to convey some meaning that the artist has ...
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Is Romans 1:19-20 philosophically sound?
Romans 1:18-25 ESV
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. 19 For what can be known about ...
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Why would an omnipotent, omnibenevolent create a universe with no humanity for billions of years? [closed]
The interpretation that god is omnibenevolent and omnipotent suggests that the universe was created with the eventual goal of humanity to come into existence. If this were the case, what was the ...
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What exactly would count as a "positively meaningful and reciprocal conscious relationship" between a person and a God?
I would like to start by quoting this answer's summary of the divine hiddenness argument:
This is the crux of the atheistic Argument from Divine
Hiddenness:
(1) Necessarily, if God exists, then God ...
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