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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
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Subject: Re: why evolution? (was Re: Banning books, religion etc...)
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Date: Sun, 7-Sep-86 20:19:36 EDT
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The chief difficulty with any monotheistic argument claiming that faith is a
necessity and that God conceals himself to preserve the possibility of
faithful belief is that he is supposed to have removed this possibility for
his *most* favored followers.  If we take the Bible at face value, then the
Hebrews of the Exodus, all the Prophets, and the Disciples were all
presented with absolute proof of the existence of God, and therefore they
did not have "faith" in this sense.  But surely they were the most blessed,
not the least; therefore faith cannot be said to be a necessity in any real
sense.  This seems to me an unanswerable objection to the argument.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Electronic Village Idiot and Certified Catholic Theologian
{ihnp4,sun,well,ptsfa,lll-crg,frog}!hoptoad!tim (uucp)
hoptoad!tim@lll-crg (arpa)

I keep calling spirits from the vasty deep, but all I get are their
answering machines.