Arguments challenging a specific attribute of God
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Eternal torture would be more pleasant than ceasing to exist
Omni-theism is very probably false
Such a punishment is against the mercy of God
A deity that has no interest in the condition or fate of intelligent life would not be worthy of worship.
A necessary and eternal divine mind is not required to ground necessary truths
A philosophy founded on a voluntaristic conception of the deity has no ground of certainty or morality.
Affliction and an omnipotent, wholly benevolent God can coexist.
An omnibenevolent being and an omnipotent being cannot be identical, because their properties conflict.
An omnipotent God is capable of any task, even those yielding contradictions
Any degree of existence weaker in intensity than the most complete perfection is not the pure reality of existence.
Appealing to space as a property of God to establish its infinity may be problematic
Appeals to exaggeration and flattery in descriptions of the deity are illegitimate substitutes for argument and reasoning
Attributing world badness directly to God undermines God's goodness
Attributing world badness to uncaused events diminishes God's ruling power
Avicenna's conception of being, used to establish the Necessary Existent, is spurious
Basing moral knowledge on knowledge of God's will is viciously circular
Bosanquet fails to take evil seriously
Cleanthes' concession that happiness must exceed misery is fatal to the religious position
Creation ex nihilo is impossible
Divine providence cannot be the source from which providence derives purely accidentally
Divine providence cannot exercise its relationship with the inferior world as a direct causal relationship
Divinity as a perfect being is entirely beyond having desires and aims.
For all we know, this world may have been created by a limited, inferior, or negligent deity rather than a perfect one
Frankfurt's interpretation requires assuming it is actually true that God is omnipotent in Frankfurt's specified sense.
God can construct a stone such that He cannot lift it, and He can also lift it
God cannot be a part of some greater composite.
knowledge
Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
Deist
Someone who believes a god or deity created the universe but doesn't believe that god actively interferes with the world or communicates through religion.
Intelligent life
Living beings capable of thinking, reasoning, and understanding—like humans, as opposed to plants or simple organisms.
Intent or intention
A conscious plan or purpose behind an action; what someone deliberately wanted to happen.
Worthy of worship
Deserving enough respect, power, or moral goodness that people should honor and revere it; having qualities that justify religious devotion.
deity
A quality that the whole world is in process towards acquiring, not yet achieved and possibly never to be achieved
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