Monday, August 24th, 2009

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August 24, 2009

Craig on God’s goodness and the existence of hell

Posted by Jason Dulle under Apologetics, Bible Difficulties, Hell, Theology
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The following information comes from a lecture I attended of William Lane Craig:

Religious pluralists often argue that there is a contradiction between the premise that “God is all-loving/powerful” and “some do not hear the Gospel and will be lost.”

To see them as contradictory there must be one of two hidden assumptions:

  1. If God is all powerful He can create a world in which everybody hears the Gospel and is freely saved.
  2. If God is all-loving, He prefers a world in which everybody hears the Gospel and is freely saved.

I will show that such is not the case, and argue that they are logically compatible.

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August 24, 2009

Moral Relativists Should Have No Problem with Evil

Posted by Jason Dulle under Apologetics, Moral Argument, Relativism
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Moral relativists who complain about the problem of evil are complaining about something, that on their own ontology, does not exist.  This makes as much sense as a man without a car complaining that it won’t start: It doesn’t exist, and yet it’s claimed to be broken.