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    A providential God who implants rational faculties cannot... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→God gave human beings only a feeble certainty of the soul's immortality rather than firm belief

    A providential God who implants rational faculties cannot simultaneously intend those faculties to yield only feeble conclusions about what they can demonstrate.

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    • 1.A perfect God would not create capacities designed to systematically mislead or fail at their intended purpose.
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    • 2.If God implanted reason as a faculty, its proper function must align with God's will, enabling reliable knowledge.
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    • 3.Systematic self-doubt about reason's conclusions is self-defeating and renders the faculty practically useless.
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    • 1.Rational faculties evolved for survival, not truth-seeking; their reliability about metaphysics remains unguaranteed.
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    • 2.A providential God might limit reason to certain domains while intending humility about ultimate questions.
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    • 3.The claim assumes God's intentions must match human intuitions about what perfection requires of reason.
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