Bartricks

Reason trumps revelation, for either you have a reason to believe you have experienced a revelation, or you do not. And in the latter case you have no...

Yes, that is I think the only reasonable way to understand what omnipotence involves. Here is an argument for that: to be all powerful is to be more p...

No, it is 'logical' to conclude that God made us ignorant and placed us here because we jolly well deserve to be here facing the risks of harm that ou...

You're not following the argument I gave. God's not an arsehole, right? By definition, he's morally perfect. And he's also all powerful. So he can do ...

What? No, I assume we do have free will. How else did we come to deserve to be here? Eh? I know we have free will. I don't see what your point is. We ...

How does any of that address the OP? If God exists, then the 'evils' of the world - the risk of harm our ignorance exposes us to - are our just desert...

Yes, post little faces. :vomit:

You are begging the question. As always. Read the OP and say something that addresses something in it.

I refer you to the argument in the OP. Do take the trouble to read it and do take a little more to understand it. Here it is for your convenience: 1. ...

Not my view. But whatever. If you say it is, it is. That's how things work here, yes?

Childish. No, the rapist is not carrying out the will of God. But by all means explain to me how you got to that conclusion.

What on earth are you on about? Show your reasoning. How the hell do you arrive at the conclusion that a person who is able to divest themselves of ab...

It is not circular reasoning. This is circular reasoning: 1. P 2. Therefore P This is my argument: 1. If God exists, then he would not suffer innocent...

No, 'omniscient' means 'all knowing'. That means he is in possession of all items of knowledge. All that is known, God knows. For God, being Reason, c...

What? No, being able to divest yourself of something is not a limitation. It's an ability. This is painfully obvious. And then you ask a tedious and e...

They already were - this, here, is dookie. And now they're deeper still. Once God's existence is established, and once his omnipotence is appreciated,...

Yes, that means 'all knowing'. That is, in possession of all items of knowledge. An item of knowledge is a justified true belief. But God determines w...

You don't seem to be very good at reasoning. No, I think there has not been a single case of an innocent being tortured to death. God would not allow ...

No. Of course not.

You can't lose what you don't have. But yes, if you don't have a phd, then you are not a dr. What's difficult to understand here?

Is it? Which bit? Does not being omnipotent require being Reason? And does not being Reason mean that one will be the arbiter of moral value? And does...

It is more important to protect innocent people from violent acts (strange circumstances aside). And so God has done precisely that. That's the reason...

Bart Bot minds. What was the meaning of your question?

I do not understand your question. I explained above how it is that omnibenevolence flows from omnipotence. I don't understand what you're talking abo...

That is confused. Omniscience and omnibenevolence flow from omnipotence. If you're omnipotent, then you are Reason, for then and only then would you h...

No, I would imagine that it is more important to God to respect the privacy of free agents than it is to know exactly what they are going to decide to...

But you also think Descartes wrote 5 meditations, think Descartes thought God's power was limited and think Descartes' ontological argument for God is...

I think B is true. But why think God would know how we'd exercise our free will? God can make himself ignorant of anything he wants to. And it seems p...

How does that follow? Like so many here, you seem to have difficulty distinguishing between being able to do something and actually doing it. I can li...

It's called the Dunning Kruger effect.

You're confused. A bachelor can't have a wife. That doesn't mean that a person who is a bachelor lacks the ability to take a wife, it just means that ...

I'll take that to mean "I don't know how to answer your question" By 'spiritual' do you mean 'vaguey waguey hippy way'? You have a wobbly jelly of a w...

How...is...his....nature....fixed? If it is fixed, it must be fixed by something outside of him, yes? Otherwise he's fixing it himself, in which case ...

why is his nature fixed??what fixes it?

So he can do what he wants, then? His nature is not going to be fixed, is it, for what could fix it?

God is well defined and the definition does not include 'imaginary'. Tedious. And clearly for the purposes of establishing whether or not God has free...

God is not constrained. What constrains him?

Morality is made of norms and values - that is, directives and valuings. They're his. So that's how he creates it. It's like asking me how I create my...

No, 'imaginary' is not included in the definition. You are just convinced God does not exist and do not understand, or are unaware of, the evidence th...

Start a thread on it and I will. This thread is about God and free will, not a thread on the finer details of a particular philosopher's arguments.

He did not have a big ego. Most geniuses know they're geniuses - be dumb not to notice.

So Descartes and I both think Descartes' argument is quite different to Anselm's, whereas you think it is the same. Hmm, who do you think might unders...

Why? It's off topic and it'd be like showing a Durer etching to my cat. This thread is about God and free will, not the finer details of Descartes' ca...

Read it.

See?

No, you don't understand Descartes' ontological argument, clearly, and have conflated it with Anselm's. My advice: don't label it. Just read it.

I am not an atheist. You understand me no better than you understand Descartes. I am about as theist as it is possible to be. I am more theist than mo...

You are not a subtle thinker. Descartes thinks his own existence is 'necessary' in that he cannot conceive of not existing; but he does not thereby th...

So?

No they don't. And yes it is.