Arguments for God
If objective moral values exist, then this exists.
Who is God?
He believed that miracles only occur among barbarous, uneducated people.
Who is David Hume?
Screwtape says to use everything from the little distractions to the rank hypocrisy of this group to distract the patient.
What is the church?
A truth claim that is dependent on a subject.
What is a subjective truth claim?
The privation of good.
What is evil?
This argument begins with the claim: "Everything that begins to exist has a cause."
What is the Cosmological Argument?
Hume's arguments begin with his conclusions before actually weighing any of this.
What is evidence?
The formation point of all virtues.
What is courage?
The first and most important question to ask others in order to define terms.
What is "What do you mean by that?"
That which conforms to or embodies God's original design and character.
What is good?
This is a potential objection to the Cosmological Argument.
What is Quantum Physics?
A group of historical details that are so well-evidenced that they are accepted by most scholars who study the resurrection.
What are the "Minimal Facts?"
The least real of all time-frames.
What is the future?
What are self-refuting claims?
This religion believes that God need not explain evil, humans must simply obey and find peace in death.
What is Islam?
The two most common objections to the Design Argument.
What are multiverse theory and evolution?
What is over 500?
"Competition," or "a zero-sum game where one wins and the other loses" describes this philosophy.
What is the philosophy of Satan?
What are weak slogans?
The belief that the world has been structured by God to maximize good and minimize evil.
What is the Best of All Possible Worlds?
One piece of evidence for the universe exhibiting design.
What is fine tuning, specified complexity, or information?
Any one of the minimal facts in the Minimal Facts approach.
What are death by crucifixion; empty tomb; 500+ witnesses; conversion of skeptics like Paul and James; etc.?
Humans don't desire this, because it is unpredictable and leaves us vulnerable before God, who can then ask of us anything.
What is genuine "nakedness of the soul?"
A skeptical worldview that is suspicious of metanarratives and believes reality cannot be known with certainty.
What is postmodernism?
The belief that God knows all future possibilities and can accomplish his will through the lives of free human beings.
What is Middle Knowledge/Molinism?