#416 | If a doctor claimed to work in “mysterious ways”, and you defended that doctor, pointing to “healings” indistinguishable from natural recovery, and attributing poor outcomes to an unsubstantiated invisible evil doctor, could you be considered rational?
#402 | Some people invoke mysteries, contradictions and inexplicable‘s to claim the deity they propose is behind all these is amazing while others invoke the same to conclude the proposed deity is physically or logically impossible. Through what rigorous process do we sort this out?
#398 | God does work in mysterious ways, mysteriously similar to a Godless universe. How does this hiddenness preserve our freewill as is often claimed? Were God standing in front of us, would rebellion somehow no longer be an option to humans said to be inherently rebellious?
#266 | Most religions categorize apparent logical contradictions in their theology/scriptures as either “resolved” or “God’s mysterious ways”, never giving honest space to the category of “falsification”. Does not Christianity do the same?
#189 | Any proposed omniscient God with an alleged cosmic plan intrinsically inscrutable to human minds we have no right to dismiss based on that God’s alleged actions such as child sacrifice and the promotion of slavery and rape. Is this right?
#183 | If you can only get people to believe in a personal and omnipresent God so mysterious he chose to write a book through humans…well, you’ve created a credulity filter through which drop all those who will believe all subsequent improbable claims. Right?
#165 | Can a God-believer legitimately insulate their God’s method of communication to humans (holy book, chicken bones, crystal ball) from criticism by claiming God’s ways are above our ways? Or can we safely ask why God would ever need a book when he’s in the room?
#124 | In response to the question “Why would a loving God allow innocent infants to experience agonizing deaths?”, is it not honorable to simply rest in the Biblical assurance that God’s ways are far above our ways? Isn’t the question intrinsically arrogant and sinful?
#103 | I hear the claim “God is infinite” frequently used to shrug off criticisms of conceptions of God. Does not “infinite” require a reference to a particular quality? Or does it make sense to say “God is very” or “God is extreme” without reference to a quality?
#027 | What justifies the dogmatic methodological naturalism in forensics? Why don’t detectives more seriously entertain supernatural explanations? Is the reason similar to the reasons scientists don’t seriously consider supernatural explanations for mysteries found in nature?
#019 | What kind of correction or retraining can be given Christians who regularly invoke “miracles” when encountering the improbable or mysterious, the same “miracles” invoked in defense of the Gods of every other religion, as evidence for the biblical God?
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