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Ben Hancock

['Member']Joined: September 28, 2018 at 05:16Last active: December 12, 2018 at 08:16None discussions14 comments

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Lupac, while I understand your desire to speak about God purely from rationality, it seems incredibly difficulty to imagine God without assigning to H...
December 08, 2018 at 05:21
Hi Francesco, I appreciate your clarity. I'd like to disagreeing with the 1st premises and 9th premises. you make: it seems that to be omnibenevolent ...
December 08, 2018 at 04:22
Hi princessofdarkness, while I may be willing to accept your conclusion that we shouldn't do harm to robots, I have a problem with few of your premise...
December 08, 2018 at 02:54
While it certainly seems we may have an obligation to help the person starving, our help may very well be rejected, as people often reject help offere...
December 08, 2018 at 02:24
The specific idea of sin being reasonably avoidable is one of the first area's addressed in John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion, in whi...
October 31, 2018 at 05:36
I was mostly giving an example about how objective greatness exists, and mentioned nothing about God creating, but it seems that creation is also a gr...
October 31, 2018 at 01:46
I do not quite understand what you mean here, but it seems like you are saying that the Greatest Being you can conceive of would NOT be omnipotent, or...
October 31, 2018 at 00:54
My apologies, I assumed God's omniscience was true definitionally true based on the ontological argument, and that you were merely questioning how can...
October 28, 2018 at 05:40
It seems that Empedocles might be able to hold on to the qualification of the stakes being both high and credible without providing a convincing proof...
October 28, 2018 at 04:50
Relativist, while God and time may belong on a different forum, I think an understanding of how God can understand the future in A-theory of time pert...
October 28, 2018 at 04:08
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@"Francesco di Piertro" could you clarify for me then what the objection is: Is it that Hell is not a physical place? (So it may be spiritual?) Hell i...
October 01, 2018 at 00:20
In: Hell  — view comment
I would challenge premise 3. The Greek word for hell ??????? (gaenna, or Gahenna), though used to describe the valley of Hinnom, also carries in its m...
September 29, 2018 at 17:28
Thank you for clarifying. The illustration you used in the first example seems to suggest that the reason the new information and calculations do not ...
September 29, 2018 at 06:21
If I understand correctly, you seem to be challenging premise 3 of Collins argument by changing the order in which we view the Big Bang. Instead of wo...
September 28, 2018 at 06:05