Let me start with two parts.
"Does God exist?" "I don't know."
"Does God not exist?" "I don't know."
"Do you believe that God exists?" "No."
"Do you believe that God doesn't exist?" "No."
Third part to discuss in addition to those two parts.
"Do you believe that God exists?" "No."
"Do you believe that God doesn't exist?" "Yes".
A funny flip side to that one.
"Do you believe that God exists?" "Yes."
"Do you believe that God doesn't exist?" "No."
Discuss them. Give terms for the first two terms and their definitions. Bonus, give two terms for the last two parts and their definitions.
Jack (04-21-2021)
Wait a minute. I just thought of the fifth part!
"Do you believe that God exists?" "Yes."
"Do you believe that God doesn't exist?". "Yes."
Would that person be called an existentialist? Nihilist? What?
Isaiah 6:5
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
Isaiah 6:5
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
???.....not a try.....conclusion....it's not even at issue......atheists deny the existence of deity.......its inherent in the real definition of atheism.......
https://thensrn.org/2020/01/27/a-his...-dictionaries/
Isaiah 6:5
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/atheism-agnosticism/This definition has the added virtue of making atheism a direct answer to one of the most important metaphysical questions in philosophy of religion, namely, “Is there a God?” There are only two possible direct answers to this question: “yes”, which is theism, and “no”, which is atheism. Answers like “I don’t know”, “no one knows”, “I don’t care”, “an affirmative answer has never been established”, or “the question is meaningless” are not direct answers to this question.
Isaiah 6:5
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
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