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God's characteristics

God Cannot Be Perfect Because Intrinsic Perfection Does Not Make Sense - REDUX

This has been brought up a number of times recently so I thought I would recycle some old posts on the topic. I am reposting this article as it is good to get previous writing seen by a new audience: So in a [not so-] recent post I was talking

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

Pearced Off! #1 - Perfection as Incoherent

I am going to run 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

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:

This World as Philosophically Necessary

In this post, I am going to consider the necessary property of God. God is often claimed to be philosophically necessary, with all other created things deemed to be contingent. I am going to challenge this prevailing idea. First, let us consider what both terms (necessary and contingent) mean. As

A Perfect Creator Cannot Exist

There are many logical arguments against the existence of a [insert type here] god. "God" comes in many forms, the classical version of which I take to task in my reasonably priced ebook The Problem with "God": Skeptical Theism under the Spotlight. In that book and

God's characteristics

Can God find anything funny? Methinks God is not perfect.

A video of my face for your... er... pleasure? Maybe not, but the words are alright. Aren't they? http://youtu.be/Ax66UUJAfNw

The "Case for God" on Trial

Here is my talk to the Dorset Humanists given this last week. It was really well received and got great feedback from audience and organisers alike. The video is of good quality though you may need to turn it up to hear some of the questions a little more clearly. The chops are out and looking might

God Cannot Be Perfect Because Perfect Does Not Make Sense

I am reposting this article as it is relevant to a recent post on Justin Schieber's non-God objects argument: So in a recent post I was talking about how God, prior to creation (at least according to classical interpretations of God based on the Ontological Argument), had ontological perfection.

Photo by Glenn Carstens Peters. In public domain (from Unsplash).

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The Problem of Non-God Objects

Here is an argument which I have communicated before here and here. Justin Schieber from Reasonable Doubts has worked on this and it has now made it into the Iron Chariots wiki site:

One last beautiful snake. Public domain photo from Pixabay.

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Is this the Best Possible World and does God have Free Will?

I wrote this some time ago at Debunking Christianity Let us assume the triple properties of the classical approach to God: that he is omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent. In terms of the classic Problem of Evil argument, if there is too much evil in the world, God knows what to do about it,

A glimpse of Toller's monastic quarters in "First Reformed"

counter-apologetics

My counter-apologetics segment to the Skepticule podcast now available

A big thanks to the three Pauls who create the Skepticule podcast and who have granted me a short counter-apologetics segment on their show. The one which I recorded was about perfection, a topic about which I have blogged before. Check it out! My segment starts at 21.54, but check out the whole pod

Justin Schieber

Argument Against a Perfect Being Creating the World

I was listening to a podcast by bloggers Reasonable Doubts recently whereby one of the contributors, Justin Schieber, formulated a logical argument showing the inconsistency of the classic understanding of God, particularly a God who moves from an eternal (a-temporal) existence, to creating time (and space) and living within the