Originally posted by The Thinker
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How can the soul be free if god causes it? Already your view makes no sense. Give detail here. Is the soul the same as the mind?
Newsflash: that's the whole point of a basic belief. That's why they're called basic beliefs. Duh! If you notice, in my basic beliefs, I don't assume my entire worldview. My basic beliefs don't entail atheism. You however grant the Bible as a basic belief, and that means you assume Christianity is true from the start, even though we know the Bible is false.
There is no way for anyone to show how all of their beliefs are true, so you're holding me to a standard that you can't even meet. On top of that, LFW is internally incoherent, as is evident by your pathetic attempt to explain it above. It makes far less sense than my deterministic view.
This is a logically valid deductive argument. And the first premise is based on induction. So do you admit now that valid deductive arguments can contain premises that are based on induction?
Why does something have to be eternal for it to have any meaning or value or hope? The universe will "die" a googol years from now. That's 10^100 years. The finitude of life gives it more value. That's why we value diamonds, because they're rare. If diamonds were as common as dirt, they'd lose value. Thing is, you were probably brainwashed into thinking that only heaven and god can give you hope. I wasn't raised with such nonsense, so that belief is totally absurd to me.
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