The existence or non-existence of God debate continues. It is entirely pointless if the existence or non-existence of Satan is not considered as part of that debate. After all, if Satan is the author of all evil, then blaming God for evil is absurd and any argument about God's complicity in evil goes out the window. Then the debate can finally get interesting, for the real questions concerns whether God is omnipotent (no) or reigns solo, no "wife" in Heaven, a view contradicted by Proverbs 8 & 9 and Wisdom of Solomon. However, does Satan actually exist? Let's put it this way: Whomever is responsible for the Holocaust and WWII more generally is Satan by definition, whomever has caused the current overturning of sexual sanity in favor of homosexuality, is Satan by definition, whomever allows the existence of a whole religion based on pure evil -Islam- is Satan. Is any of this is all that difficult to understand? Billy ============================== >From the blog: Stephen Law (Senior Lecturer in philosophy at Heythrop College, University of London) Sunday, January 18, 2015 William Lane Craig and ruling out an evil creator on the basis of observation
Here is a post for the philosophers of religion amongst you. Can we rule out an evil god on the grounds that the world is not nearly evil enough? Of course we can. But then why can’t we similarly rule out a good god on the grounds that the world isn’t nearly good enough? Back in 2011 I debated philosopher and Christian apologist William Lane Craig on the existence of God (_link_ (http://www.centerforinquiry.net/?URL=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7FhphWDokA) ). I presented the evidential problem of evil as my main argument against the existence of God. In particular, I pointed out that, for almost the entire two hundred thousand year sweep of human history, one third to a half of each generation died, usually horribly, before reaching their fifth birthday. This caused immense suffering to both all those kids and also their parents who had to watch helpless as their children were killed on an industrial scale. That evil is certainly ‘inscrutable’ in the sense that we can see no good reason why God would allow it. This and much of the other evil we see around us strikes many of us as ‘gratuitous’: we suppose there is no good God-justifying reason for it. And God, if he exists, won’t allow gratuitous evils. So it seems to me we can reasonably rule out an all-powerful all-good God on the grounds that the world just ain’t good enough. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
