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    It is not the case that God gave human beings only a feeble certainty of the soul's immortality rather than firm belief

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    • 1.Aquinas argues that natural reason can demonstrate soul immortality via the intellect's immateriality (ST I, q.75, a.6).
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    • 2.If reason yields firm demonstrative knowledge of immortality, God's design includes—not withholds—that certainty.
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    • 3.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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Kant argues in the Critique of Practical Reason that immortality is a necessary postulate of pure practical reason, not a mere opinion.
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    • 2.If moral rationality itself demands firm commitment to immortality as a condition of the highest good, divine wisdom would align revelation with reason's demand.
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    • 3.Cardano's account makes God's providential design conflict with the very moral architecture God supposedly instilled in rational creatures.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.A firm belief in the immortality of the soul would have created too wide a gap between humans and animals
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    • 2.A firm belief in the immortality of the soul would lead humans into arrogant delusions of grandeur
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    • 3.God's providential design avoids such consequences
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