classical theism God's Own Free Will I have written variously on this subject before but wanted to bring together two ideas: 1. God cannot have free will. 2. If he does, he could not have used it to create the world. Libertarian free will (as in the conscious and actual ability to choose otherwise in a
God's characteristics Oh, Skeptical Theism. Again... God moves in mysterious ways. I've spoken to you previously about being at the place where a lot of atheist philosophers and thinkers often get to: where you think that the arguments concerning God are so obvious and so resoundingly conclusive that you kind of lose the impetus.
God's characteristics Stacking the Odds for Getting into Heaven Bert wrote a nice little piece on heaven the other day. It inspired me to write something about this. Pertinently, he said: The quote above suggests that getting into Heaven is pretty damned hard to do. But, according to Christian doctrine anybody can be forgiven all of their sins if
free will Pearced Off! #7 - God Has No Free Will; This Is a Perfect World I am running a series of the old podcast segments from my Pearced Off! section of the Skepticule Podcast (a British skepticism-based podcast now on hiatus) that I used to contribute to. Some of the earlier ones have some quieter audio. Apologies. They run at around ten minutes. Something to
God's characteristics Should Atheists Bring Children into the World? Should Christians Murder Their Babies? These are the sorts of questions you should be discussing around the dinner table with your children of a Sunday afternoon… Jayman, a Christian commenter here on occasion, pushed back on a recent article I posted concerning William Lane Craig's position on apostates. * Craig on Terminating Would-Be Apostates
fear On God-Fearing Theists This video is well worth a watch. I'll leave it here for now and then write a post on it soon. The idea of having a loving relationship within a power-dynamic that involves such imbalance and fear is really problematic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttevamkS6gw H/
Free Will and Determinism God Is a Consequentialist. The Theist's Defence: God Is Not Moral (II) I spent the previous piece on this topic, laying the groundwork for establishing that God is a moral consequentialist before pointing out that some theists create a defence of this accusation by claiming that God is not moral because God is under no moral obligation. What does this mean and
consequentialism God Is a Consequentialist. The Theist's Defence: God Is Not Moral (I) I have written an essay that can be found variously on this site called "God Is a Consequentialist" in which I set out that God is a moral consequentialist. Some of which I will now set out or paraphrase before looking at the defence William Lane Craig and
Debate Terrible Debate Tactics: God the Father, and Visiting Sins over Generations I am going to give you a crash course in theists making claims and then evading arguments that trash their claims. Some time ago, I wrote a piece looking critically at the "God as father" analogy: "Looking Critically at the God as Father Analogy" I don&
Evidential Problem of evil The Logical Problem of Evil I have recently brought up the good ole problem of evil in a post concerning both religion and politics. Skl, a regular theistic commenter, was surprised by my remarks: [JP - There is no logical inconsistency with OmniGod and the existence of suffering, given his properties. … I don’t deny
divine foreknowledge Not Seeing OmniGod through Philosophy and Logic: Satan, Heaven & Hell Introductory spiel: One of my more recent books, Not Seeing God: Atheism in the 21st Century (UK), has a plethora of gems in it for the reader and a smorgasbord of variety. It was a labour of love and was particularly rewarding due to the fact that so many great
consequentialism Not Seeing OmniGod through Philosophy and Logic: Heaven & Consequentialism Introductory spiel: One of my more recent books, Not Seeing God: Atheism in the 21st Century (UK), has a plethora of gems in it for the reader and a smorgasbord of variety. It was a labour of love and was particularly rewarding due to the fact that so many great
creation God's Divine Foreknowledge, His Culpability and the Problem of Evil God’s divine foreknowledge has recently raised its interesting head over the last few comment threads and I thought it would be interesting to return to the subject again. I’ll start with a quote from a commenter here, found on their Miscellanea Agnostica blog: The [reconciliation of "the
God's characteristics The Many Christian Responses to the Shootings I talked about the different categories of explaining the shootings in the context of the Problem of Evil in a previous post. The Christian Post, for example, preferred to advise people on how to react to the tragedies, rather than who or what was to blame and how they should
COVID crisis Not Seeing OmniGod through Philosophy and Logic: God Loves Abortion Introductory spiel: One of my more recent books, Not Seeing God: Atheism in the 21st Century (UK), has a plethora of gems in it for the reader and a smorgasbord of variety. It was a labour of love and was particularly rewarding due to the fact that so many great
creation Not Seeing OmniGod through Philosophy and Logic: Creating Imperfectly Introductory spiel: One of my more recent books, Not Seeing God: Atheism in the 21st Century (UK), has a plethora of gems in it for the reader and a smorgasbord of variety. It was a labour of love and was particularly rewarding due to the fact that so many great
atheism Not Seeing OmniGod through Philosophy and Logic: Why Create? Introductory spiel: One of my more recent books, Not Seeing God: Atheism in the 21st Century (UK), has a plethora of gems in it for the reader and a smorgasbord of variety. It was a labour of love and was particularly rewarding due to the fact that so many great
Biblical Exegesis God Hates His Own Designed Creations: Animals God appears to really hate non-human animals. Which is an odd thing considering he designed and created them. We know that he hated animals because he pretty much told us so and acted with utmost contempt for their existence. Let me remind you of the famous case of Noah'
Cosmology God's Superfluity in Creating the Universe “God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love and perfect them. He creates the universe, already foreseeing - or should we say "seeing"? there are no tenses in God - the buzzing cloud of flies about the cross, the flayed
determinism There Are Only Two Gods Available, Really I was recently having a rather abstract conversation with my good friend and Tippling Philosopher founder the other night. We were talking about the different kinds of gods that logic could get you to. And I came to the conclusion that really, there were only two types of gods available:
God's characteristics Best Argument for Theism...? I am at a stage in my atheistic philosophy where I really don't think there is any particularly decent argument for theism. The only arguments that have any kind of relevance or traction are arguments from ignorance, where atheism or naturalism has no definite answer, and this allows
God's characteristics Shaving the Christian God with Occam's Razor The following piece was sent to me by my friend, who often goes by the moniker of Fellow Feather. Let me know what you think - it's right up my OmniGod alley... This will be published in the issue after next of Free Inquiry and maybe the next
abstracts Aquinas, Distinction, Composition and Divine Simplicity In continuing to comment on the idea of divine simplicity, as it pertains to the Trinitarian God of Christianity, I am going to move on to speak about Aquinas. Setting the Scene Commenter (and contributor) here at ATP Ficino asked: Jonathan, I would very much appreciate it if you can
God's characteristics God on Trial One of my talks that I give is God on Trial. It has morphed a little from its original incarnation. It is a number of philosophical arguments against the belief in (the Christian) OmniGod. Here it is in early form from 2013. See what you think: https://www.youtube.com/
divine foreknowledge God: The Sick Creation of Man I have posted this before, but the more I read it, the more like a poem it becomes, and the more powerful. It was not designed as a poem, but works well as one. It is written by a friend of mine who posts adverts in different places, including this
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