Timeline for What are Christian responses to the atheistic argument that God is an unnecessary and overly complicated extra step?
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| Nov 27 at 21:23 | comment | added | Matthew | @ChessIce, I did. "The universe" is not a causal agent, nor is it the sort of entity for which "existence as a brute fact" follows ontologically. God is both. | |
| Nov 27 at 21:03 | comment | added | Chess Ice | I think that these questions in the 3 comments above are actually really interesting. Do you have any responses to them? | |
| Mar 27 at 23:15 | comment | added | user61679 | Great edit. With respect to "Rather than remaining aloof from His Creation, God has revealed Himself to us in the form of Scripture, authenticated in its consistency with natural evidence and by the miracle of Christ's Resurrection", I would also add that many Christians believe that God also reveals Himself personally to each individual through the witness of the Holy Spirit (and we can go even more extreme in this direction by considering Christian mysticism, Pentecostalism, Charismatics, etc.) | |
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| Mar 27 at 20:26 | history | edited | Matthew | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 26 at 20:57 | comment | added | user61679 | And anticipating your answer (and the subsequent objection by an atheist): if you say that God doesn't need an explanation, why can't we say the same thing about the universe? (This is actually what Carl Sagan said in the first quote.) | |
| Mar 26 at 19:47 | comment | added | user61679 | Dawkins (and many atheists) would probably object that, by postulating a God, instead of solving the problem, you now have something even more complicated to explain (where did God come from?). Can you say something about that (ideally by editing your answer instead of replying in the comments)? [Note: I'm acting as a devil's advocate here.] | |
| Mar 26 at 18:57 | history | answered | Matthew | CC BY-SA 4.0 |