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Why thank God for good things, but not blame God for bad things?
First of all, one should ponder the question of how you know that one thing is good, and one is bad. An infant thinks it good that his mother gives him a shiny rattle and bad that she snatches away a ...
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Why would an omnipotent, omnibenevolent create a universe with no humanity for billions of years?
At least 3 viable fetuses:
The world was created, as the biblia sacra says, 10,000 years ago.
The biblia sacra is ... obviously ... a pack of lies.
This is the most intriguing of the possibilities ......
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Why would an omnipotent, omnibenevolent create a universe with no humanity for billions of years?
Michael Hall's answer is good for addressing the question as posed, but I think the question as posed rests on a weak premise to begin with if it's supposed to relate to real-life religions.
The ...
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Why would an omnipotent, omnibenevolent create a universe with no humanity for billions of years?
But who said they did nothing?
Realize that our scale and concept of time is completely meaningless to such a being.
The question is like a transient quark, flickering into and out of existence, and ...
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Why would an omnipotent, omnibenevolent create a universe with no humanity for billions of years?
Your question does not seem conclusive to me. Do you suppose that creating human beings is an act of benevolence? Being benevolent to whom?
Before their creation humans did not exist. One cannot ...
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What exactly would count as a "positively meaningful and reciprocal conscious relationship" between a person and a God?
This is a rare case in philosophy where the phrase can be understood just by looking at the meaning of the constituent words:
"positively" - as opposed to negative. The relationship with ...
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What exactly would count as a "positively meaningful and reciprocal conscious relationship" between a person and a God?
There are a lot of predictive test cases one can construct around God hypotheses, based on the principle of intent. These test cases share the assumption that a hypothesized God is an agent, with ...
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What exactly would count as a "positively meaningful and reciprocal conscious relationship" between a person and a God?
I can't speak for the intent of the author, but one might compare this to human relationships.
Let's say someone claims to have a meaningful loving reciprocal relationship with Jeff Bezos. How they ...
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What exactly would count as a "positively meaningful and reciprocal conscious relationship" between a person and a God?
The link from SEP denotes the term
positively meaningful and reciprocal conscious relationship
as a quote from John L. Schellenberg, made in one of his books and in a
book-contribution. Therefore ...
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Can the ultimate explanation of everything really be God even if He exists?
One of the factors that determines whether an explanation is a good one is whether it provides a distinctly better answer to the question 'why' than other purported explanations. You might find it ...
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Can the ultimate explanation of everything really be God even if He exists?
see Koons 1997 section 8.4. Aquinas already treats the topic in his summa 19.
The key conflict is between a naive PSR which gives us the cosmological argument, and the free will of God. One standard ...
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Can the ultimate explanation of everything really be God even if He exists?
I would question the following somewhat:
If He has free will, and He freely chooses to create the universe, this would imply that there is no fundamental reason as to why He decided to create the ...
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Can the ultimate explanation of everything really be God even if He exists?
That's why the natute of God is considered as Trinity, and the "real work" as you say is being done by the Holy Spirit (pneuma), which is being studied by Pneumatology. Note that the ...
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Does god have freewill and if so did can 'it' choose to be god?
God is omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent. God can choose to unveil itself ,if the circumstances demand it, to the masses. God is experienced regularly by those who believe in God because God is ...
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Does god have freewill and if so did can 'it' choose to be god?
First of all, at least in the (mainline) Abrahamic view, God is eternal and unchanging. I hold this to be accurate as a Catholic. Let me explain.
God's Nature
God is eternal. If God isn't eternal, it'...
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Is a naïve logical argument against god rational?
Is a naïve logical argument against god rational?
It could be, but you would have to define the word "God" and every other word you use in your argument, which is certainly not a trivial ...
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Can God make the belief in His own existence justified (if He exists)?
Reliabilist and skeptical claims notwithstanding...(as pointed out by Conifold)
this is the crux of the atheistic Argument from Divine Hiddenness:
(1) Necessarily, if God exists, then God perfectly ...
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Can God make the belief in His own existence justified (if He exists)?
According to Immanuel Kant, it's not logically possible for God to reveal Its existence to us in intuition, since the mismatch-of-type between empirical and divine natures is too extreme for us to ...
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Can God make the belief in His own existence justified (if He exists)?
If you consider God as an independent being of some sort, then you are probably thinking of an extraordinary act of some kind – like a show – that will leave no doubt about His greatness.
On the other ...
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Can God make the belief in His own existence justified (if He exists)?
Nothing is preventing God from revealing to you in person if you are eligible. Just like this site doesn’t tolerate every kind of question and every kind of person for a good reason , similarly God ...
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Can God make the belief in His own existence justified (if He exists)?
I do not know whether He/She can. Actually He does not want.
A mighty personal being, having created the world but not showing any interest to communicate in an understandable way with his creatures, ...
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