Posted: Mar 18, 2010 6:38 pm
Audley Strange wrote:Black36 wrote:I'm sure your viewpoint would change if I could prove God's existence to you, no?
Tell you what. If you can even give me a description, let alone a definition of God that isn't unreal meaningless nonsense I'll be impressed. So let's not fly a plane before we can crawl eh?
1)
There exists a necessary being with properties including, but not necessarily limited to, perfect freedom, omnipotence, omniscience, perfect goodness, who caused the beginning of the existence of contingent things.
2)
If P does A freely, then no cause makes him do A. He is ultimately responsible for A being done; for nothing makes him make A be done.
3)
A person P is omnipotent at a time t if and only if he is able to bring about the existence of any logically contingent state of affairs x after t, the description of the occurrence of which does not entail that P did not bring it about at t, given that he does not believe that he has overriding reason for refraining from bringing about x.
4)
A person P is omniscient at time t if and only if he knows every true proposition about t or an earlier time and every true proposition about a time later than t which is true of logical necessity or which he has overriding reason to make true, which it is logically possible that he entertains then.
5)
A person P is perfectly good if P is so constituted that he always does what there is overriding reason to do, and always refrains from doing what there is overriding reason for not doing.
*edited for punctuation*