Arbitrary Appeal For a Basis of Morality?

October 3, 2010
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Is the Christian appeal to God’s nature as a basis for morality arbitrary? I spent my “Rational Faith Online” time this week replying to comments rather than doing the topic I had planned.  The comments I’ve been getting revolve around Euthyphro’s Dilemma and the third alternative I presented that splits the dilemma.  It seems that [...]

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Existence of Evil As Proof of Existence of God

September 13, 2010
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Existence of Evil Grounds for Belief in God? Can the best argument atheists have against the existence of God actually be used to show that God must exist?  It doesn’t sound plausible…but the obvious existence of evil in our world is just what the prolific author (Narnia Chronicles, Mere Christianity) and respected Oxford scholar, C. [...]

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What is Evil? Natural vs. Moral Evil

September 6, 2010

What is Evil? A few weeks ago, we started discussing explanations for the co-existence of a good God and the existence of evil.  However, we didn’t discuss exactly what we mean by the term evil.  There are different kinds of evil, natural evil and moral evil, for example.  For useful discussion, we should make sure [...]

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Happiness vs What is Good For Us

August 23, 2010

Good Does Not Equal Happiness For the record, I believe happiness is a good thing. I just had a happy week-end with friends at the Brudenell River Resort on Prince Edward island.  Great friends we don’t get to see much anymore and tons of kids running around enjoying themselves… It was a good thing and [...]

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Why Would a Good God Allow Evil and Suffering?

August 9, 2010

Evil and Suffering: Argument Against the Existence of God The existence of evil and suffering is the biggest argument against God’s existence…why would a good God allow evil and suffering to exist? There is lots of speculation as to why He would allow evil and suffering.  We can come up with possible explanations that make [...]

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