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

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    • 1.A perfectly good and all-powerful God would not make a cosmos in which all or most created persons have lives full of misery and then are annihilated.
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    • 2.An all-loving good God would not create a cosmos in which there is no opportunity for transformation beyond this life.
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    • 1.Finite goods can constitute sufficient justification for finite suffering without requiring infinite compensatory goods in an afterlife.
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    • 2.John Stuart Mill and secular theodicists like D.Z. Phillips argue that requiring afterlife compensation conflates justice with cosmic bookkeeping.
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    • 3.A God who only permits suffering when offset by posthumous reward treats persons instrumentally, violating Kantian dignity norms more than godless tragedy would.
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    • 1.Skeptical theism, as developed by Wykstra and Bergmann, holds that humans lack the cognitive scope to determine whether God has sufficient reasons for uncompensated suffering.
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    • 2.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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    It has not been shown conclusively that an identity-preserving materialist resurrection is impossible, but the difficulties, as outlined above, are formidable (Hasker 1999: 211–31). Proponents of an afterlife, it seems, would be better served if they were able to espouse some variety of mind-body dualism. This entry cannot undertake an assessment of the comparative merits of dualism and materialism. It is worth noting, however, that recent philosophy has seen an increased recognition in some quarters of the difficulties resulting from materialist views, and a corresponding interest in differen...

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