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Title: THE EVIDENCE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD


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THE EVIDENCE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
  • AN ANALYSIS OF ALTERNATE "WORLD VIEWS"

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  • Love must be freely chosen. Love would not be
    love if not freely given. The greatest gift
    that God made in Creation, and the most
    formidable to His goodness, and that which he
    prizes the most, was the freedom of the will.
    Dante, The Divine Comedy

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  • Freedom entails risk. In making us free a risk
    is taken by God in creation. In creating beings
    with freewill, omnipotence from the outset
    submits to the possibility of defeat. What you
    call defeat, I call miracle for to make things
    which are not Itself and thus to become capable
    of being resisted by its own handiwork, is the
    most astonishing and unimaginable of all the
    feats we attribute to the Deity. C. S, Lewis,
    The Problem of Pain.

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  • A. Good and evil are not things, but the use we
    make of things.
  • B. Good and evil are actions with motives, not
    substances.
  • C. Good and evil have always existed as abstract
    possibilities or potential ways of acting because
    God is a being who acts.
  • D. Good would be the wisest or best use one makes
    of persons or things

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  • E. Evil would be the foolish or destructive use
    of persons or things.
  • F. Only good existed as a concrete reality or as
    that which was actually done as long as God was
    the only one making choices.
  • G. Evil changed from an abstract possibility or a
    potential way of acting to a concrete reality or
    to that which was actually done when certain
    beings freely made unwise and unloving choices.
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