The Christian God is defined as a personal being who knows everything. According to Christians, personal beings have free will.
In order to have free will, you must have more than one option, each of which is avoidable. This means that before you make a choice, there must be a state of uncertainty during a period of potential: you cannot know the future. Even if you think you can predict your decision, if you claim to have free will, you must admit the potential (if not the desire) to change your mind before the decision is final.
A being who knows everything can have no "state of uncertainty." It knows its choices in advance. This means that it has no potential to avoid its choices, and therefore lacks free will. Since a being that lacks free will is not a personal being, a personal being who knows everything cannot exist.
Therefore, the Christian God does not exist.
—Dan Barker
According to naturalism, we are the sum total of our genetics, environment, and social conditioning.
We have no real choices. Mother Nature does the choosing for us.
Between biological determinism, peer pressure, and our natural environment, we are chemical robots, doing whatever natural selection and our smart genes have programmed us to do.
The mind is illusory. Matter is all.
Therefore, the secular humanist does not exist.
—Steve Hays
Steve,
ReplyDeleteFollowing the atheist's logic to it's conclusion is something the atheist rarely does. Good post.
Besides the obvious fact that man knows there is a God through natural revelation, if God really didn't exist, then the "idea" of God wouldn't exist either.....
--Jon Unyan