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    Challenges→If there is no afterlife, the problem of evil becomes impossible to solve in any rationally intelligible way.

    If our epistemic limitations block confident inference that God lacks justifying reasons, they equally block confident inference that afterlife is the only intelligible solution.

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    • 1.Symmetry principle: If epistemic limits prevent ruling out God's justifying reasons, they equally prevent ruling out afterlife as necessary.
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    • 2.Both God's motivations and afterlife's logical necessity lie beyond our observational capacity and require metaphysical inference.
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    • 3.Confidence in either conclusion requires overcoming identical limitations; asymmetric confidence between them is epistemically unjustified.
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    • 1.God's rationality is a basic attribute of theistic theology; afterlife necessity requires additional empirical and logical arguments.
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    • 2.Epistemic limits about God's reasons differ from limits about afterlife: one concerns divine psychology, the other empirical metaphysics.
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    • 3.Symmetry doesn't hold—we can be uncertain about God without being equally uncertain about every proposed theological consequence.
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