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necessity

Is God a Necessary Being?

June 27, 2020 by Randal

Today, I was a guest on John Petersen’s YouTube channel to talk about God as a necessary being. I parachuted into the conversation about 20 minutes in (I had another meeting before then) and then I had to leave early. But I had a great time while it lasted!

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: God, necessity, perfect being, perfect being theology

What caused God? What floats my boat?

February 8, 2020 by Randal

Sam Harris raises the old village atheist query “What caused God?”. As he puts it: “the notion of a creator poses an immediate problem of an infinite regress. If God created the universe, what created God? To say that God, by definition, is uncreated simply begs the question.” Sorry, but that’s like saying “if you […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: contingency, God, necessity

An Atheist Defining Theism: The Curious Case of Sean Carroll

October 30, 2017 by Randal

This week Unbelievable features a dialogue/debate between atheist Sean Carroll and theist Luke Barnes on whether God or naturalism best explains the universe. I was thirty minutes into the program when I found myself needing to press pause and ask, “Did Sean Carroll really say that?” And the answer is, yes, yes he did. So […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: God, modality, necessity, Sean Carroll, Unbelievable

God is maximally great, God is perfectly good, so we can thank him in every possible world

October 12, 2011 by Randal

There has been much ado about the ontological argument, most of it skeptical. In response to the chorus of incredulity, it may help to put this into a more formalized type of argument. However, doing so is risky given the sharp minds out there waiting to trip me up. But I care more about corporate illumination […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Anselm, God, modality, necessity, ontological argument, perfect being, possible world, theistic proof

Why is God necessary?

April 21, 2011 by Randal

How many things do we just accept without ever reflecting on them? For instance, why do clouds, supposedly made up of water vapor, look like vast cotton balls floating in the sky? (Alas, I have discovered that a close up view looking out the window of a Delta flight does little to dispell the mystery.) As puzzling as […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, contingency, cosmological argument, God, necessity, perfect being theology

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