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Ehrman’s Problem 20: Everything But the Kitchen Sink

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In my last post I pointed out that Ehrman begged the question for his major argument as to why the apocalyptic argument didn’t help us answer why God allows suffering. In this post I will address his next two arguments. I titled this post, “Everything But the Kitchen Sink,” because, frankly, his arguments appear rather …

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Ehrman’s Problem 3: God Could Have Made Us So We’d Always Do Right

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Bart Ehrman asks why God didn’t give humans “the intelligence they need to exercise it [free will] so that we can all live happily and peaceably together? You can’t argue that he wasn’t able to do so, if you want to argue that he is all powerful.” (13) This objection is Ehrman’s slant on the …

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