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The Argument from reasonable Non-Belief (ANB)

Created by : Hiren Sheth, Cust. Service Manager, ICICI Bank  | 06 18 2011 15:57:02 +0000
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Christian God - Omnipotent, omniscient, omni benevolent personal creator of the universe. Reasonable non-belief - non-belief in Christianity which is largely based on sincere and rational thought, which is amenable to reason. The ANB, simply put, is the problem that non-belief causes for the God described, assuming of course that He values belief in the first place. Now, what I will try to show in this debate is that given Christian doctrines, and so forth, we would not expect non-belief to exist, if God wants us to be saved (1 Tim 2:4). Now, clearly one could always point to sinful pride or other kinds of dogmatic non-belief, which do exist and may be answered simply with a free-will type defence. However, the belief I want to focus on here is sincere, open-minded non-belief. The kind which is at least as honest and intellectually respectful as Christianity can be. Given that such belief does exist, it seems to me we have a problem. The argument runs like this: P1 - If the Christian God exists, we have good grounds for thinking that reasonable non-belief in Christianity does not exist. P2 - Reasonable non-belief in Christianity does exist C - Therefore, we have good grounds for thinking that the Christian God does not exist. What I’ll do in the remainder of my post is to summarise why I think both premises are true, beginning with P1.
By Hiren Sheth, Cust. Service Manager, ICICI Bank  | 06 18 2011 15:57:02 +0000
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