Empedocles

Since math isn't my strong suit, I'm confused by most of it lol. Maybe it's best to forget about the video for now

Okay so I was thinking the claim was being made by the eye-witnesses that the miracle occurred, not that the claim was that many eye-witnesses saw a m...

I watched the video but honestly wasn't able to understand all of it. Could you explain to me how it contradicts or changes the situation about miracl...

One note I thought of afterward: It seems like most of our beliefs are based on testimony. I know the United States gained independence from England i...

Hi Walter Pound, It seems like you’re doing something like this in your post: You’re shifting the burden of proof to the miracle-believer. Instead of ...

I see what you mean. I think you’re right that Pascal’s wager only works when you’ve done the work to limit live options to only a few, and that does ...

I think I understand what you're saying. I wonder if I should change my argument to be something like this: 1. The higher the stakes of something happ...

Khalid already gave a defense of why the capacity to recognize (subjective) beauty is not improbable under atheism. Check out the video they posted if...

Yep I think you got me there. I'll have to look for more solid arguments that argue beauty is at least in part objective. What if I change it to: 1- I...

Let me reiterate your objections to make sure I'm understanding them correctly. I'm taking your first objection to be against my premise 1 (the beauty...

Could clarify what you mean here? I don't think I'm following

I think you're right. Maybe if I qualified premise 1 to say something like, "If the stakes of a belief are high and credible, then you should take arg...

Your claim seems to be something like this: "Even if the stakes are high, we have no way of knowing what will happen/what the consequences will be" An...

I'm not sure your conception of hell falls into the mainstream/orthodox tradition I was looking for. It seems like most Christians believe hell exists...

I think you made a good case for free will necessitating an option for people to go somewhere other than heaven when they die. However, I have a bone ...

Here's my response to your objection toward my premise 1a- I might be missing something, but it does seem to me that, although God didn't force us to ...

Agreed, that's what I tried to capture with the last sentence of my introduction. I think I'm most interested not in people's individual and unique co...

I think that works too, but to my knowledge the problem isn't one's propensity to sin since everyone sins? And it's more about whether you believe in ...

I was going with what I take to be the commonly held Christian idea of salvation from eternal torment in hell

I guess I disagree, it doesn't seem just to me since, like I said, most beliefs of most people are beyond their control (they inherited them, never qu...

I think you're right that the cause of damnation is sin, not unbelief. But if, like you imply, no one asks for mercy if they don't believe, it seems l...

I mean all those terms in the way we usually mean them. Of course God has more qualities than being loving. If you're interested in learning more abou...

I'm not sure that God is a being of infinite ability. Is he able to sin? Can he make a stone so big He can't lift it? And isn't He limited by His prom...

That's interesting. So would humans just become loved by God once they become Christians? What about when John 3:16 says "For God so loved the world"?...

Couldn't God have the true knowledge in conditional form, "if I create x, they will go to hell", and in that way he could choose not to create x and n...

I agree, God's omniscience is another trouble spot for me. I'll probably post more on that soon

That's definitely an option to solve the conflict I'm seeing. I was hoping to see what a more "literalist"/mainstream response might be instead of red...