Reading Time: 5 minutes One of the arguments in my most recent book 30 Arguments Against the Existence of “God” concerns OmniGod creating this world, and that this world must be the best of all possible worlds. This is because OmniGod is constrained by his characteristic of being all-loving. In being omnibenevolent, God’s actions must always conform to this […]
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God Is Love: Having a Loving Relationship with a Divine Automaton
Reading Time: 3 minutes I’ve just done a YouTube video discussing this and it’s an interesting one. I will use my claim here that God does not have free will. See my following pieces: God’s Own Free WillGod’s Supposed Free Will: He Cannot Be Contrary to His Own Predictions The basic premises are as follows: OmniGod has a number […]
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Heaven and Hell as a Hot Mess
Reading Time: < 1 minute Check out the latest interview, this time with Gnostic Informant. We discuss the philosophy of heaven and hell, carrying on the conversation started with another video interview I did with MythVision (also below): And the previous one: Stay in touch! Like A Tippling Philosopher on Facebook: A Tippling Philosopher Please support by sharing or donating, […]
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‘Your Idea of “Fair” Does Not Equal God’s Fairness’
Reading Time: 3 minutes After my post debating fairness with Paul Hoffer, another Catholic commenter, Jim Dailey, stated this rather problematic claim: I think your argument falls apart where you presume that your idea of “fair” = God’s fairness. You are a parent. Do you think you are “unfair” to one of your children? The reason why this is so […]
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The Uneven Evidence Debate: Responding to Paul Hoffer
Reading Time: 10 minutes As I am sure you are aware by now, I have been embroiled in a debate with myself Dave Armstrong about the uneven apportioning of evidence to humanity over time and place. It moved more into the philosophical domain, so Armstrong invoked a comment from, one presumes, a more philosophical commenter at one of his […]
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God Cannot Be Perfect Because Intrinsic Perfection Does Not Make Sense – REDUX
Reading Time: 3 minutes This has been brought up a number of times recently so I thought I would recycle some old posts on the topic. I am reposting this article as it is good to get previous writing seen by a new audience: So in a [not so-] recent post I was talking about how God, prior to creation […]
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God’s Own Free Will
Reading Time: 5 minutes I have written variously on this subject before but wanted to bring together two ideas: God cannot have free will. If he does, he could not have used it to create the world. Libertarian free will (as in the conscious and actual ability to choose otherwise in a given scenario, ceteris paribus – LFW) is […]
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William Lane Craig and Heaven
Reading Time: 4 minutes Recently, I wrote a few pieces on heaven with reference to William Lane Craig and how he has made claims about front-loading people who would reject Jesus (God using his Middle Knowledge to work this out) into those who, as it turns out with creation, never get to hear about him anyway. In other words, […]
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Pearced Off! #7 – God Has No Free Will; This Is a Perfect World
Reading Time: < 1 minute I am running a series of the old podcast segments from my Pearced Off! section of the Skepticule Podcast (a British skepticism-based podcast now on hiatus) that I used to contribute to. Some of the earlier ones have some quieter audio. Apologies. They run at around ten minutes. Something to keep you company outside of Netflix and the […]
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God Is a Consequentialist. The Theist’s Defence: God Is Not Moral (I)
Reading Time: 5 minutes I have written an essay that can be found variously on this site called “God Is a Consequentialist” in which I set out that God is a moral consequentialist. Some of which I will now set out or paraphrase before looking at the defence William Lane Craig and others use to get around this. This […]