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Have any major Christian intellectuals responded to Stephen Hawking's "The Grand Design"?
God and Stephen Hawking, by John C. Lennox, is a popular direct reply to The Grand Design.
Alister McGrath calls it "a brilliant response," and the book won an Award of Merit in Christianity Today'...
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Isn't it illogical for an atheist to go to hell?
It is illogical for an atheist to think they would go to hell.
Given they have arrived at the conclusion God does not exist, then they must also disbelieve in any place of eternal torment after death.
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Isn't it illogical for an atheist to go to hell?
The illogic is in the question itself.
You say: “God gives me reason. … God doesn't exist”.
Asking a question based on two mutually exclusive facts doesn't make logical sense.
One can't believe both ...
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Is belief or faith the same as idolatry?
To paraphrase your question, it seems like you're asking if the transcendence of God precludes true knowledge of God.
The answer is no.
The transcendence of God means that God is beyond our full ...
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Have any major Christian intellectuals responded to Stephen Hawking's "The Grand Design"?
John Lennox's book: Gunning for God - Why the New Atheists are Missing the Target directly covers and quotes this exact passage from Hawking you quoted, and addresses it. I am reading it at the moment....
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How do Christians justify lack of God's intervention during events where neonates get killed?
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While God does not do miraculous divine intervention in most sufferings it does NOT mean He should do so. What you ask is a theodicy, which many Christians have attempted. In the next ...
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Isn't it illogical for an atheist to go to hell?
In Christianity we believe that reason is NOT the only tool that God gave us. He also revealed Himself in his miraculous and covenantal dealings with his chosen people Israel starting with Abraham (...
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Isn't it illogical for an atheist to go to hell?
God gave reason to more than yourself. Though it seems illogical for an atheist to credit God with giving you such a sublime faculty. Leaving that aside, consider the following logical points. The ...
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Isn't it illogical for an atheist to go to hell?
Romans 1:
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. 19 For what can be known about God is ...
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How do Christians justify lack of God's intervention during events where neonates get killed?
I could start by asking you to read carefully God's words to Job at the end of the book (Job 38-41). And you will see that you will not have another answer to God's question "Shall he that ...
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The Biblical God and the Kalam Cosmological Argument
That version of the Cosmological Argument simply points to the universe having a cause. The Christian response would be that the cause is God. Science confirms that the universe must have had a ...
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How do we know the unmoved mover for any given change must be singular and lack potential?
DISTINCTION OF ACT AND POTENCY.
This distinction arose from the Parmenides objection. Let me summarise the argument why the change is not possible and then I will resolve the argument.
Proposition (...
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Why do other religions exist if Yahweh is the one true God?
The premise in the question :
Does this signify that there is in fact no reason for God to mind the existence of other fictional Gods, which further implies that God actually doesn't care about us ...
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What can be the Christian defence of the argument from J.L. Schellenberg’s “Divine Hiddenness”?
Two meanings of "divine hiddenness"
First, it's important to note (as the Stanford Encyclopedia entry makes clear in the first 2 paragraphs) that "divine hiddenness" as used in ...
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Is there a prayer to God for the supplicant to believe in Him?
Is there a prayer to God for...
Christians are not restricted to pre-written prayers. While some denominations have pre-written prayers, and extensively use them, even in those denominations the ...
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Isn't it illogical for an atheist to go to hell?
You are saying, "God would be irrational to send me to Hell for using a gift he gave me, namely the gift of reason."
The answer is quite simple. Gifts can be used badly, and it need not be ...
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Isn't it illogical for an atheist to go to hell?
For the Gospel to be illogical, one or more of these would have to obtain:
It is internally inconsistent
It makes nonsensical statements that have no meaning
It is inconsistent with the laws of logic
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What is the biblical basis for saying God is a Subsistent Being?
Thanks to the new tag, 'aeseity', I've learned the definition for this, as representing God as absolutely independent and self-existent by nature. My problem now lies in seeing how 'subsistent' ...
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What is the biblical basis for saying God is a Subsistent Being?
A self-subsisting being means that its essence (what it intrinsically is) is "to exist" (existence) itself.
The best biblical evidence is Exodus 3:14, "I am Who am." (אֶֽהְיֶ֖ה ...
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How do Christians justify lack of God's intervention during events where neonates get killed?
This question incorrectly assumes that God is currently micromanaging the world.
But the Bible calls Satan "the god of this world" (2 Corinthians 4:4), and "the prince of this world&...
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How do Christians justify lack of God's intervention during events where neonates get killed?
I am a Christian who will not presume to justify God regarding anything that sinful humans accuse him of. You are accusing God of lack of intervention, and of being unjust. Yet while you expect ...
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What is the Transcendental Argument proof of God's existence?
According to Wikipedia, the Transcendental Argument for the Existence of God (TAG) goes like this:
God is a necessary precondition for logic and morality (because these are immaterial, yet real ...
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How do Christians justify lack of God's intervention during events where neonates get killed?
How do Christians justify lack of God's intervention during events where neonates get killed?
First, this is not a justification but what we learn from the Bible as to why these things happen. This ...
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How do Christians justify lack of God's intervention during events where neonates get killed?
This is a variation of the problem of evil. More specifically, its a variation of the problem of suffering. The key distinction here is that evil is the result of an action and that suffering is the ...
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How do we know the unmoved mover for any given change must be singular and lack potential?
RE falsity of premise 5: The point of the proof is that if some thing 1 makes the putative first mover (thing 1') be the way it is, that thing 1 is really the first mover of whatever changes are laid ...
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How does C.S Lewis come to the conclusion that Jesus is God?
The trilemma is NOT C.S. Lewis's only reason on why he came to the conclusion that Jesus is God (he covered this topic in his other books). I think C.S. Lewis used this logic in Mere Christianity only ...
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How does C.S Lewis come to the conclusion that Jesus is God?
why do we come to say that he is God simply like that if he could also be a lunatic or something worse?
Lewis, at this point in the book, is arguing against a specific view of Jesus - namely that he ...
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Why do other religions exist if Yahweh is the one true God?
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The reason there are many religions in the world is because there are many gods who initially were intermediaries between God and man but they rebelled and took worship for themselves.
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Why do other religions exist if Yahweh is the one true God?
This question doesn't ask for a specific denomination's viewpoint.
Some denominations have considered this questions though, and do have an answer.
Galatians 1:4 refers to our "present evil age".
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Why does the axiom of choice imply the existence of a unique God?
I won't make any statements about the mathematical, philosophical or theological implications of the proof. But I can help you with the maths (this would better done on math.SE).
Make a order of the ...
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