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Does God’s perfection undermine petitionary prayer?

April 26, 2014 by Randal

In the comment thread to my latest podcast, “Travis Dumsday on the atheist’s duty to pray,” philosopher Robert Gressis offered an objection to the practice of prayer. The objection is based on the assumption that God is a maximally perfect being (i.e. the Anselmian conception), and thus perfectly good and all knowing. Gressis explains: assuming that we’re […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Anselm, foreknowledge, God, perfect being, petitionary prayer, providence

Does God ‘rape the will’ to save people from hell?

June 6, 2011 by Randal

“Irresistible force used by God on his free creatures would be a violation of both the charity of God and the dignity of humans. God is love. True love never forces itself on anyone. Forced love is rape, and God is not a divine rapist!” (Norman Geisler, “God knows all Things,” Predestination and Free Will, […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: foreknowledge, free will, God, hell, Norman Geisler, predestination, providence, rape

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