Originally posted by Chrawnus
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Originally posted by Chrawnus
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Originally posted by Chrawnus
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Hence theists are required, as you have noted by your remark, to develop alternative hypotheses to circumvent his propositions. Some fairly ingenious solutions have been devised; but it is unclear whether any of them are effective.
And the question still remains as to how evil and suffering exist if there is an inherent belief in a good god. If that concept of God is unlimited with omnipotence, omniscience and moral goodness, the existence of such vast amounts of evil and suffering quickly gives rise to potentially serious arguments against the existence of such a good God.
Of course there may [or not] be a God; but he is not the God. That is to say, God as conceived within the Judaeo-Christian, and later Muslim, theistic traditions.
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