- Is the concept of a perfect, omnipotent, omniscient God logically impossible?
- If God is able and willing to stop evil, why do evil and suffering (like starving children in Ethiopia) exist?
- If God is omniscient and knows the future, do humans really have free will?
- Who created God? Why does God not need a creator if everything else does?
A host reads proof #36 from godisimaginary.com, 'Realize that God is impossible': a dictionary definition of God as a perfect omnipotent omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; a mention of denominational differences among believers; Epicurus's four-options formulation of the problem of evil; a reading of Matthew 7:7-11 followed by the starving-children-in-Ethiopia objection; the claim that omniscience negates free will (so believers are effectively Calvinists); and the who-created-God paradox.
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