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    Against an aspect of God — Carmelics
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    Against an aspect of God

    Arguments challenging a specific aspect of God

    242 ideas in this topic

    115 of 242 ideas have perspectives(48%)

    242 results
    Challenges→ECT is inconsistent with the justice of God+1

    It is not that someone has committed an infinitely evil crime

    40%
    claim
    Challenges→Eternal Conscious Torment is the true Hell

    If ECT is true, then God is evil

    40%
    conditional

    If people are tortured forever in Hell with utmost intensity, either they must have committed infinitely evil crimes, or their ECT torturing must be inconsistent with the justice of God

    40%
    conditional
    Challenges→It is not that someone has committed an infinitely evil crime+1

    an infinite punishment involves torture

    40%
    claim

    God could cause the same good by causing less pain

    40%
    claim

    ECT involves people being forever tortured in Hell with utmost intensity

    40%
    claim
    Challenges→Eternal Conscious Torment is the true Hell

    ECT is inconsistent with the justice of God

    40%
    claim
    Challenges→ECT involves people being forever tortured in Hell with utmost intensity

    Hell is eternal alienation from God

    40%
    claim

    If the damned will no longer be able to harm others, then there's not enough opportunities to sin in Hell continually

    40%
    conditional

    It is not that it serves the non-damned

    40%
    claim
    Challenges→The damned will sin continually

    Some will not sin forever

    40%
    claim

    A second god cannot be a causally sufficient condition (in the strong sense) of the existence of any contingent being, given that a first god is a causally necessary condition of the existence of every other concrete object.

    70%
    claim

    A second god cannot be a necessary condition of the existence of at least one concrete object distinct from itself, given that a first god is a causally sufficient condition (in the strong sense) of the existence of at least one contingent being.

    70%
    claim

    All created beings are as nothing in comparison to God

    70%
    claim

    Christianity contradicts philosophical principles

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    Contemporary Christianity deadens rather than activates the spirit

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    Damian has to deny the universal validity of the principle of non-contradiction

    70%
    claim

    Eve's ignorance cannot be understood as a defect in spiritual progress or a weakness of spiritual faculties

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    claim

    Extended souls are impossible.

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    claim

    God cannot be the agent of evil

    70%
    claim

    God cannot properly be called the 'Creator' of human beings except in a purely metaphorical sense.

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    claim

    God does not perform miracles

    70%
    claim

    Hell is outside the scope of Biblical texts that deal with redemption

    55%
    claim

    In the thirteenth century, Eriugena was accused of heresy

    70%
    claim

    It is not that it serves God

    35%
    claim
    Challenges→Such a continuation is inconsistent with the justice of God

    It is not that it serves any of those

    35%
    claim

    It is possible for a deity in traditional African religion to issue commands that practitioners consider unethical.

    70%
    claim

    It is problematic to claim that one and the same thing is both divine and human

    ?
    claim
    Challenges→It is not that it serves the non-damned

    It makes the non-damned more thankful

    35%
    claim

    Malebranche introduces theological principles that lack grounding in Scripture and tradition

    ?
    claim

    Glossary

    concrete object

    An object that actually exists in the sense captured by the existence predicate E!x; taken as primitive.

    contingent being

    A being whose existence is not necessary — it can fail to exist

    Forrest

    A philosopher who argues that the universe could possess intentionality through supervenience (emerging from underlying features).

    Hell

    In Christian and other religious traditions, a place or state of punishment or separation from God that comes after death as a consequence of sin.

    Inconsistent with

    Contradicts or conflicts with; logically incompatible with.

    Justice of God

    The idea that God acts fairly and righteously, punishing wrongdoing proportionally and treating people according to what they deserve.

    Pfeifer

    A philosopher who argues that the universe could possess intentionality as an intrinsic (built-in) feature.

    causally necessary condition

    A condition without which a given object could not exist; the existence of the object depends on this condition obtaining.

    Related Topics

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    Connected Topics

    Topics that share ideas with Against an aspect of God

    Eternal Conscious Torment106 sharedDivine Attributes37 sharedNatural Theology31 sharedProof of definition segments22 sharedAgainst an attribute of God13 sharedTrinity9 sharedProblem of Evil8 sharedJustice & Punishment7 shared

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