Freedway Thinker #20 - More on Burden and Defeaters

In this quick reflection I talk again about burden of proof and defeaters, and if theists/Christians are rational when they ask atheists if they can prove God does not exist or that our beliefs are false.

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Molinism and Feasibility

In this episode I discuss Molinism and its problematic use of feasibility in its metaphysic.

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New Atheism and Tax Exemption

Syllogistic Objections to Libertarian Freewill and Open Theism from Isaiah 41 and 46.

Syllogistic Objection Against Libertarian Freewill (Based on Isa 41-46):

1. If a god is not a true god then they cannot declare the future as causally inferred from past events. (Isa. 41:21-23)
2. YHWH can declare the future as causally inferred from past events. (Isa. 46:9-10)
3. YHWH is a true god. (MT 1, 2)
4. All other gods cannot declare the future as causally inferred from past events. (Isa. 41:22)
5. All other gods are not true gods. (MP 1, 4)
6. YHWH is the only true God. (Imp. 3, 5)
7. If a future event can be known as causally inferred from past events, then Libertarian Freewill cannot be true.
8. Future events can be known as causally inferred from past events since God can do so. (Imp. 2, 7)
9. Libertarian Freewill cannot be true. (MP 7, 8)

THUS, the very test that YHWH established in the testing of the gods of Babylon assumes a metaphysics of causality that renders Libertarian Freewill impossible, and therefore false.


Syllogistic Objection Against Open Theism (Based on Isa 41-46):

1. If a god is not a true god, then they cannot declare the future as they can the past. (Isa. 41:21-23)
2. YHWH can declare the future as he can the past. (Isa. 46:9-10)
3. YHWH is a true god. (MT 1, 2)
4. All other gods cannot declare the future as they can the past. (Isa. 41:24)
5. All other gods are not true gods. (MP 1, 4)
6. YHWH is the only true God). (Imp. 3, 5)

THUS, the god of Open Theism would not pass the very test for a true god that YHWH established in testing the gods of Babylon, and therefore is a false concept of god, (i.e. an idol).


REFERENCE:
ISAIAH 41:21-24:
21 “Present your case,” the Lord says.
“Bring forward your strong arguments,”
The King of Jacob says.
22 Let them bring forth and declare to us what is going to take place;
As for the former events, declare what they were,
That we may consider them and know their outcome.
Or announce to us what is coming;
23 Declare the things that are going to come afterward,
That we may know that you are gods;
Indeed, do good or evil, that we may anxiously look about us and fear together.
24 Behold, you are of no account,
And your work amounts to nothing;
He who chooses you is an abomination.

ISAIAH 46:9-10:
9 “Remember the former things long past,
For I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is no one like Me,
10 Declaring the end from the beginning,
And from ancient times things which have not been done,
Saying, ‘My purpose will be established,
And I will accomplish all My good pleasure’

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