Reading Time: 5 minutes The problem of evil is the biggest thorn in the side of theism and religious belief, being an often emotive argument as to why there is so much suffering in the world if God was all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-loving. With those OmniGod characteristics, God would know enough to know what to do about suffering, powerful […]
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How do Christians explain vanishing twin syndrome and ensoulment?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Many theists believe that ensoulment takes place at conception, as the soul is either attached to, or emerges from, the physical matter of the fertilized egg. This theological minefield begs for critical analysis, which I’ve discussed as it relates to identical twins, and frozen embryos. In the final installment of my “Ensoulment Trilogy,” I was […]
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New book announcement: 30 Arguments Against the Existence of ‘God’, Heaven, Hell, Satan, and Divine Design
Reading Time: 5 minutes “God” is arguably a nebulous term and might well mean a different thing to each of the many people who believe in it. In my new book 30 Arguments Against the Existence of “God”, Heaven, Hell, Satan, and Divine Design [UK], I take the commonality we see in many views, the understanding of classical theism, […]
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The Bible Shows God Is Not Omniscient
Reading Time: 3 minutes I feel like triggering Dave Armstrong and what better way to do this than to get his longjohns in a twist about the Noah’s Flood story. This is from a chapter I am editing in a book I am just finishing (would be ready for proofers to look at later today – I have appealed […]
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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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On Ridiculous Christian Apologetics, and Whether Mercy Is Undeserved
Reading Time: 5 minutes I have been discussing God’s unfairness in the uneven distribution of evidence a lot recently. First, grace was offered as something that God gives out unfairly – it is baked into the idea, apparently. And then Luke Breuer said the same of mercy, in reply to my question, “Why cannot mercy be doled out to […]
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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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The Argument from Experiential Knowledge
Reading Time: 3 minutes I love discussing all things OmniGod, that is the ramifications of a god that has omniscience, omnipotence and omnibenevolence. This God is the one of “classical theism”. I have written a book compiling my musings on the matter (the reasonably priced ebook The Problem with “God”: Classical Theism under the Spotlight [UK]). One of the […]
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Craig’s Reformulated Kalam & CosmicSkeptic: Free Will and Other Problems
Reading Time: < 1 minute Here is the third and final instalment of the critically acclaimed philosophical trilogy looking at criticising the Kalam Cosmological Argument. In this video, I look to continue my commentary and then go back to look at William Lane Craig’s pitiful defence of the idea that God could “choose to create”, “make a decision ” and […]