Timeline for How can a theist justify not having children?
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| Jul 9, 2019 at 21:32 | comment | added | APCoding | Interesting. I suppose that you could still define happiness as time approaches infinity (as a limit), where I think it would still make sense to say one grows faster than the other with time, but that is besides the point. What about what I said in my other comment about the consequences if one accepts a universalist theism? | |
| Jul 9, 2019 at 21:09 | comment | added | Chris Sunami | Also, the work of Georg Cantor, who established that all ordinary infinities are the same size. | |
| Jul 9, 2019 at 21:00 | comment | added | Chris Sunami | The set of all integers is NOT bigger than the set of all even integers, mathematically speaking: They can be mapped to each other in a 1-1 relationship (Hilbert's paradox). | |
| Jul 9, 2019 at 20:15 | comment | added | APCoding | Thank you for the answer. I suppose that the weight of my argument depends on how many people one expects to go to heaven. What if one accepts a universalist account, where every person is said to eventually achieve salvation in heaven? It would seem that P2 is then valid, and the conclusion follows (your arguments #1 and #3 no longer apply). Also, your argument about stacking infinite quantities doesn't make sense to me. For example, isn't the set of all integers twice as large as the set of all even integers, yet both are infinite? | |
| Jul 9, 2019 at 19:50 | history | answered | Chris Sunami | CC BY-SA 4.0 |