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    God cannot exist. — Carmelics
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    God cannot exist.

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    • 1.The concept of God requires the coherent unity of omniscience and omnipotence, but Plantinga and Savage show these attributes generate irresolvable paradoxes.
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    • 2.A being that knows all future actions it will take cannot act otherwise, yet omnipotence requires the power to act otherwise, producing a formal contradiction.
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    • 3.Any concept containing a formal contradiction refers to nothing that could exist in any possible world, so 'God' names an impossible object, not a necessary one.
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    • 1.A being that is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent would necessarily prevent gratuitous suffering, yet gratuitous suffering demonstrably exists.
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    • 2.The existence of gratuitous suffering is logically incompatible with the existence of such a being, making God's existence impossible, not merely unlikely.
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    • 1.It is possible that God does not exist.
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    • 2.Necessary existence is part of the meaning of 'God'.
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    • 3.If necessary existence is part of the meaning of 'God' and it is possible that God does not exist, then God's existence is not necessary and therefore impossible.
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    It is possible that God does not exist.Necessary existence is part of the meaning of 'God'.

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    The ontological argument goes back to St. Anselm (1033/34–1109), but this section shall explore a current version relying heavily on the principle that if something is possibly necessarily the case, then it is necessarily the case (or, to put it redundantly, it is necessarily necessary). The principle can be illustrated in the case of propositions. That six is the smallest perfect number (that number which is equal to the sum of its divisors including one but not including itself) does not seem
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    The concept of God requires the coherent unity of omniscience and omnipotence, b...
    The existence of gratuitous suffering is logically incompatible with the existen...
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