My first question at religious education class when I was 8 - If God is good and ever forgiving why is there a hell? — Tom Storm
How can a good god condemn people to infinite suffering in hell for finite offence/s. Infinite punishment will always exceed just punishment for finite offence/s. — Down The Rabbit Hole
Out of all the arguments I have come across, this one makes the most sense. — elucid
If you're saying if God is not good then God does not exist, that doesn't make sense to me.
Yes, but they have been used to argue against the existence of God. Which is what this thread is about. — elucid
If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him?
If he is infinitely wise, why should we have doubts concerning our future?
If he knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers?
If he is everywhere, why erect temples to him?
If he is just, why fear that he will punish the creatures that he has filled with weaknesses?
If grace does everything for them, what reason would he have for recompensing them?
If he is all-powerful, how offend him, how resist him?
If he is reasonable, how can he be angry at the blind, to whom he has given the liberty of being unreasonable?
If he is immovable, by what right do we pretend to make him change his decrees?
If he is inconceivable, why occupy ourselves with him?
If he has spoken, why is the universe not convinced?
If the knowledge of a God is the most necessary, why is it not the most evident and the clearest? — The Necessity of Atheism (1811)
Heavy Rock:
1. Can God create a rock so heavy, he himself cannot lift it? — elucid
Immortal
2. Can God kill an immortal being? — elucid
Numbers
3. Can God make a number equal to another number? — elucid
Geometry
4. Can God make a geometric shape equal to another geometric shape? — elucid
Larger than space
5. Can God make an eleven feet cube fit in a circle of a three feet diameter? — elucid
Endless
6. Can God eat all the infinite supply of apples in a machine that dispenses it one at a time? — elucid
Evil
7. If God exists, why then is there evil in the world? — elucid
I wasn't proposing it was an argument against God's existence, just a paradox/contradiction. — Tom Storm
Most of them are just silly questions that admit of easy answers. I believe in God, so I'll answer them.
Heavy Rock:
1. Can God create a rock so heavy, he himself cannot lift it? — elucid
Yes. God is all powerful and so can do anything, including making a rock so heavy he cannot lift it. He can lift it too. — Bartricks
How can a good god condemn people to infinite suffering in hell for finite offence/s. Infinite punishment will always exceed just punishment for finite offence/s. — Down The Rabbit Hole
This is not an argument that God doesn't exist. This is an argument that God is not good. — T Clark
It seems to me that the reason people decide to argue against god isn't to contradict the idea of god so much as it is to contradict a whole set of "affiliated beliefs" that go tend to go along with the belief in the idea of god (but are not necessarily logically entailed). If this is so, then atheism is really just one giant red herring..... — Pantagruel
Yes, he can. To wit: Jesus, the eternal bachelor, to whom so many Catholic nuns are married.Many Christians, for instance, maintain that God is maximally powerful but he cannot do the logically incomprehensible. God cannot make bachelors married men, for example. — Tom Storm
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