| Aielyn said: I see three flaws. 1. Why must an existing god be "perfectly loving"? One could certainly envisage a god that is capable of... forsaking a person. 2. Why must a god being open to personal relationship with each person necessarily mean that, in the absence of resistance, they must be aware of the relationship? That's like suggesting that, because some people weren't aware of the existence of air despite their dependence on it, therefore air can't exist. 3. Can you prove that there exists people who are neither resistant nor aware of this god's existence? Otherwise, that predicate remains untested. Mind you, I lack a belief in any deity. Without evidence supporting existence, I default to the position of non-existence. But one cannot prove nonexistence, just as one cannot prove that there has never existed a unicorn. |
1. Fair
2. Bad analogy. Unless air was (a) all-powerful, and (b) wanted everyone to have the opportunity to become aware of its existence. An all-powerful and all-loving God would want to have a loving relationship with every human; and would thus give everyone a fair and reasonable opportunity to form such a relationship (see below).
3. For one, people who have never been introduced to God, among others too.
