Well, Prof. Liebegott and others claim that only abstract objects can be necessary. Concrete objects cannot exist by necessity. All concrete objects must be contingent. Now, if God exists, then God is a concrete thing he is minimally a conscious mind of some sort. So God is not an abstract Read more…
Prof. Liebegott in a wonderful comment on my previous post argued that theists are fundamentally mistaken in their belief that God could be a necessary being. The problem here is that there is a serious category mistake. That is, the claim is incoherent because God is not the kind of Read more…
According to Christianity Jesus has overcome evil. But how can this be true? How can Jesus have decisively overcome evil when there is obviously so much of it still in the world? In this post I aim to answer these questions with a little help from art. Consider Andy Warhol's Read more…
There are two claims made by Christians that seem mutually exclusive. Christians claim that God is Love. And they claim that we should fear God. Wait. Why should fear God if God is so kind? What is there to be afraid of? How to find the answer to our questions? Read more…
There is a classic and rather an obvious problem with combining two Christian ideas: (i) that God is infinitely loving, knowledgeable, and powerful and (ii) Hell is a real possibility for us. Now we have to be careful how we state the second point here. As I understand the Catholic Read more…