Philosophical
68 entries.
| Sheet | Objection | |
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| Positions | The bible does not present a uniform set of morals, much less an Objective one. | Argument page → |
| Positions | The bible has passages that challenge the notion of free will. | Argument page → |
| Positions | God is both omniscient and not omniscient. | Argument page → |
| Positions | God is both omnipotent and not omnipotent. | Argument page → |
| Positions | God is both omnipresent and not omnipresent. | Argument page → |
| Positions | Salvation only available through worship is deplorable. | Argument page → |
| Concepts | Outgroup Homogeneity Bias: 'Tendency to assume that the members of other groups are very similar to each other, particularly in contrast to… | Argument page → |
| Concepts | Fine Tuning argument: 'To determine that the development of the cosmological constants was unlikely, we would have to observe the constants… | Argument page → |
| Concepts | Argument from Change: 'Turtles all the way down. Something from potential. First cause.' | Argument page → |
| Concepts | needs review Evolution: https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species [LINK: https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species] | Argument page → |
| Concepts | Re god and evil: 'A gratuitous evil: An instance of intense suffering which an omnipotent, omniscient being could have prevented without the… | Argument page → |
| Concepts | Objective morality from god: 'Is god good because he aligns with goodness, or is he good because he defines what good is? If the former, the… | Argument page → |
| Concepts | Ontological: 'In metaphysics, ontology is the philosophical study of being, as well as related concepts such as existence, becoming, and rea… | Argument page → |
| Concepts | Epistemological: 'relating to the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope, and the distinction betwe… | Argument page → |
| Concepts | Jesus summary: 'God impregenated a virgin with himself, to sacrifice himself to himself, in order to forgive everyone for the fact that thei… | Argument page → |
| Concepts | God as Omnipotent/Omniscient/Omnipresent: 'Infallible/Omnipotent beings cant fail with respect to their intentions. God is the sole cause of… | Argument page → |
| Concepts | Can god become surprised, disappointed, or angry? 'If God is All Knowing... then it should never be surprised, confounded, or angry - unless… | Argument page → |
| Concepts | needs review (blank claim) | Argument page → |
| Concepts | needs review Copenhagen Big Bang Survey: https://arxiv.org/html/2503.15776v1 [LINK: https://arxiv.org/html/2503.15776v1] | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Ezekiel 44:15-17 depicts God as needing priests to bring him 'fat and blood' at 'my table' — a primitive picture of a deity who literally ea… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Proverbs 12:21 ('no harm happens to the righteous, but the wicked are filled with trouble') implies a retributive theology in which sufferin… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Deuteronomy 28:63 says the LORD will 'take delight' in bringing Israel to ruin and destruction, just as he delighted in prospering them — im… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | The Bible depicts God as literally changing his mind or regretting past decisions (Gen 6:6, regretting making humanity; 1 Sam 15:11,35, regr… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Deuteronomy 13:1-3 says God permits true-predicting false prophets to arise 'to know whether you indeed love the LORD your God' — implying G… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Psalm 139:16 says all the psalmist's days 'were written in your book before one of them came to be,' cross-referenced with Qur'an Surah 53:3… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Luke 12:56-57 has Jesus rebuke the crowds: 'You hypocrites!... why do you not judge for yourselves what is right?' | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Exodus 33:23 has God tell Moses he will see God's 'back' (achor) but not his 'face' (panim). | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Romans 9:16-21 teaches God unilaterally hardens whomever he wills (using Pharaoh as the example) and then punishes people for the hardness h… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Genesis 6:5-8 says God regretted/repented having made man and was grieved at his heart — but an omniscient being who by definition foresaw e… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | needs review 'Biblical God as partially Evil': the spreadsheet defines dystheism — 'the belief that a god is not wholly good and can even be considered e… | Argument page → |
| Failed Biblical Prophecies & ot | The Torah prescribes death for blasphemy (Deuteronomy 13's law against leading Israel astray to worship other gods/false prophecy, and Levit… | Argument page → |
| Christianity Summary | God impregnated a virgin with himself, in order to sacrifice himself to himself, to appease himself, for the fact that two people ate a frui… | Argument page → |
| Christianity Summary | Assuming that Jesus = God | Argument page → |
| Christianity Summary | 'Jesus impregnating his Mother - Lev 18:7 - God impregnated Mary, Jesus is the Lord.' / 'Jesus impregnating a virgin betrothed to another -… | Argument page → |
| Christianity Summary | Trinitarianism - The ancient Nicene theologians argued that everything the Trinity does is done by Father, Son, and Spirit working in unity… | Argument page → |
| Christianity Summary | Arianism - Jesus was created by God and is therefore distinct from God. Arius's basic premise is that only God is independent of existing. S… | Argument page → |
| Christianity Summary | Modalism - God revealed as the creator and lawgiver is called 'the Father'; God revealed as the savior in Jesus is called 'the Son'; God rev… | Argument page → |
| Christianity Summary | Subordination | Argument page → |
| Gods Anatomy | Psalm 18:9 says God 'bowed the heavens and came down; thick darkness was under his feet' — implying God has feet, i.e. a physical body locat… | Argument page → |
| Gods Anatomy | Exodus 15 (the Song of the Sea) describes God with a series of body parts — 'arm,' 'hand,' 'finger,' 'eye,' 'nostrils' — used to accomplish… | Argument page → |
| Gods Anatomy | In Exodus 33:23, God tells Moses 'you shall see my back, but my face shall not be seen' — implying God has a literal front and back, a physi… | Argument page → |
| Gods Anatomy | Numbers 6:25, the priestly (Aaronic) blessing, prays that 'the LORD make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you' — attributing a… | Argument page → |
| Omniscient | 'God is All knowing,' supported by Psalm 147:5 ('his understanding is beyond measure'), Psalm 139:4 ('even before a word is on my tongue...… | Argument page → |
| Omniscient | 'God is Not All Knowing,' supported by Genesis 22:12 ('now I know that you fear God') and the 'testing to know' language of Deuteronomy 8:1-… | Argument page → |
| Omniscient | Further texts cited under 'God is Not All Knowing': Genesis 18:21 ('I must go down and see whether they have done altogether according to th… | Argument page → |
| Omniscient | needs review malachite 3:6 | Argument page → |
| Omnipresent | needs review 'God Is Everywhere' (bare section heading in the source row, with no accompanying verse text, url, or argument stated) | Argument page → |
| Omnipresent | Jer 23:23-24 ('Am I a God near by, says the Lord, and not a God far off? Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them?... Do I no… | Argument page → |
| Omnipresent | 'God is Not Everywhere' — a counter-heading citing a bare cluster of references without argument prose: Eze 44:1-3, Psalm 102:19, Psalm 150:… | Argument page → |
| Omnipotent | Row 1 ('God Is All Powerful') lists proof-texts for divine omnipotence — Psalm 115:3, Jeremiah 32:17, Job 42:4, Revelation 19:6, Mark 14:36.… | Argument page → |
| Omnipotent | 2 Kings 3:26-29 (linked from the same 'God is Not All Powerful' row): when the king of Moab's assault fails, he sacrifices his firstborn son… | Argument page → |
| Godly Characteristics | Rows 15-20 of this sheet list bare pop-psychology trait labels applied to the biblical God/Jesus with no supporting argument or citation att… | Argument page → |
| Free Will | Isaiah 46:9-10: God 'declares the end from the beginning... My purpose shall stand, and I will fulfill my intention' — cited as proof that t… | Argument page → |
| Free Will | Psalm 139:16: 'Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance, and in Thy book they were all written, even the days that were fashioned, when as… | Argument page → |
| Free Will | Romans 9:16-23 ('It does not depend on human desire or effort, but on God's mercy... he hardens whom he wants to harden... does not the pott… | Argument page → |
| Free Will | Jeremiah 10:23 ('it is not in man to direct his steps'), Proverbs 20:24 ('a man's goings are of the LORD; how then can man look to his way?'… | Argument page → |
| Free Will | Exodus 4:11 ('who hath made man's mouth?... is it not I the LORD?'), Psalm 75:6-8 ('God is judge; he putteth down one, and lifteth up anothe… | Argument page → |
| Free Will | Isaiah 45:7 ('I make peace, and create evil; I am the LORD, that doeth all these things'), 1 Samuel 16:14 ('an evil spirit from the LORD ter… | Argument page → |
| Permanence of the OT law | A bare reference to Matthew 5, invoking Jesus's own words: "Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have not com… | Argument page → |
| Gods Low Self Esteem | Jesus says: whoever publicly acknowledges him will be acknowledged before the angels, but whoever disowns him will be disowned; whoever spea… | Argument page → |
| Gods Low Self Esteem | Philippians 2:9-12 (KJV): God 'highly exalted' Jesus and gave him 'a name which is above every name' so that 'every knee should bow... and e… | Argument page → |
| Salvation | "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on h… | Argument page → |
| Salvation | "In flaming fire, dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus." (2 Thessa… | Argument page → |
| Originality of Biblical Morals | The Golden Rule ('Do unto others as you would have them do unto you') is not a unique biblical insight. Confucius stated a near-identical ma… | Argument page → |
| New Cosmology | 'Big Bang' | 'God busting a nut.' — a crude sexual joke implying that the idea of God causing the universe's beginning is reducible to an ab… | Argument page → |
| New Cosmology | 'Black Holes' | 'For when God is lonely.' — a crude joke implying that appeals to black holes as evidence relevant to God are absurd or ad h… | Argument page → |
| New Cosmology | needs review Row 4: a full quotation of the Bene Gesserit 'Litany Against Fear' from Frank Herbert's novel *Dune* ('I must not fear. Fear is the mind-kil… | Argument page → |
| New Cosmology | needs review Row 5: a quotation of the mentat 'litany' from Frank Herbert's novel *Dune* ('It is by will alone I set my mind in motion...'), pasted into… | Argument page → |