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    If moral rationality itself demands firm commitment to im... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→God gave human beings only a feeble certainty of the soul's immortality rather than firm belief

    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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    • 1.Reason's deepest demand is that the highest good be achievable; mortality makes virtue's perfection impossible, so reason requires immortality.
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    • 2.A perfectly wise God would not create rational beings with an inescapable rational need that revelation systematically frustrates or ignores.
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    • 3.Revelation's credibility depends on coherence with reason's necessities; misalignment would undermine faith's rational foundations entirely.
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    • 1.Reason may not demand immortality; finitude could enable rather than prevent virtue's achievement and meaning within limited existence.
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    • 2.Divine wisdom might intentionally transcend human reason's demands; God's revelation need not validate what finite minds declare rationally necessary.
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    • 3.The claim conflates what reason contingently values with what reason logically requires, smuggling preference into necessity without sufficient warrant.
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