I was thinking some more about the PoE. And in a sense, God has provided a way to remove all pain/evil if you look at the big picture. Let me explain. Let P be the amount of time that a person experiences pain/evil on earth. The maximum it could be is 43800 days (120 years …
THH wrote: otseng wrote: THH wrote: If happiness is good, then your omnibenevolent God must answer as to why he does not provide it on a continual basis. I throw the question back at you, why must God provide happiness on a continual basis? What “good” is he otherwise? I do not equate “good” with …
The Happy Humanist wrote: Perhaps what is needed is a new term to replace “omni” with one that implies ultimate power, without the self-contradictory baggage. Perhaps “ultipotent”? I agree that the term carries baggage. How about “superpotent”? If happiness is good, then your omnibenevolent God must answer as to why he does not provide it …
juliod wrote: BTW, has anybody yet offered a working definition of “evil” for the purposes of this debate? I don’t think it is relevant. Like Lotan, I don’t believe in evil. We can leave it to the theists. It is quite relevant on several counts. First off, in all debates, it provides a common starting …
harvey1 wrote:However, there’s another question that we must address, and that is whether the reasons for God not acting are sufficient to suggest that God has all the qualities in full that people often ascribe to God. I believe there are reasons why God does not act in situations of pain/evil. And one main reason …
I understand what you’re saying wuntext. Tragedies and calamities happen and we wonder, “Where is God in all this? Why does he allow bad things to happen?” It’s probably the oldest and most common questions in the history of civilization. And I’m not going to say here that there’s any simple answers to these. I …
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Let’s start with your first three statements: 1. If a God exists who is omnipotent (all powerful) and omnibenevolent (all loving), 2. and evil exists, 3. then God cannot be omnipotent or omnibenevolent. The atheist implies with this argument that an omnipotent (I like your definition and that is how I’ll be using it) God …
http://www.sindonology.org/shroudScope/ … &lat=735.0 The cloth has a herringbone twill pattern. The cloth is woven in a three-to-one herringbone twill composed of flax fibrils. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shroud_of_Turin Herringbone, also called broken twill weave, describes a distinctive V-shaped weaving pattern usually found in twill fabric. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herringbone_%28cloth%29 The herringbone weave pattern has been found in ancient cultures: Various herringbone weaves …
The shroud has a side strip that is 3.5″ wide that runs the entire length of the cloth. So, the shroud was cut at one point in time and then the strip was sewn back onto the main cloth. You can see the side strip on left side of the cloth below: It is evident …
I had mentioned 7 blood/image patterns that uniquely identifies the man on the shroud as Jesus. Another factor that dramatically decreases the number of possible candidates of who it can be is the cloth itself. According to Bart Ehrman, the vast majority of crucified victims were not allowed to be buried and thus would not …