To claim God is the Creator is to assume the burden of explaining why God selected and created this particular world. What are the characteristics of this world that could...
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What are the classical arguments used to prove the existence of God? For the Cosmological Argument we argue First Cause; from the Ontological Argument we argue Necessary...
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What does it mean for God to be ‘good’? God can never be bad, do evil, sin? Sure, but what about positive things that God can do? What are those things that best...
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How do Buddhism, Chinese traditions and Hinduism address Final Things—eschatology—life after death and the ultimate transformation of the world? What are reincarnation...
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Why does the order of the universe lead some to God? Can an connection be made from the apparent order in the universe to the existence of an order-giver such as God? But God...
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Can art inform topics in philosophy of religion? Can the existence and varieties of art address or affect theological questions about God, faith, belief, worship?
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Episode 05
Season 20
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If God exists outside of time—not in time, but timeless and eternal—what would that mean about God’s nature? God would never ‘lose’ the past or...
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If God is a ‘perfect being’, God must have necessary existence. But would it be a contradiction in logic if God did not exist? Would God’s non-existence be...
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We’ve heard the raucous noise about God, God’s existence and nature. Better are cogent arguments, con and pro. Not that the existence or nature of God is up for...
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Predestination is ultimate destiny, fate. It is the claim by some religions that a Supreme Being, whether a personal God or a cosmic force, has determined for individual...
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If I seek God and avoid “the problem of evil,” I fool myself. If there is a God, evil is God’s hardest problem. If there is no God, evil is No-God’s...
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