Sublime

Using modern terminology, we may say: Ideas of unperceived things or occurrences can always be defined in terms of perceived things or occurrences, and therefore, by substituting the definition for the term defined, we can always state what we know empirically without introducing any unperceived things or occurrences. As regards our present problem

The freedom to do what one intends, and not to do otherwise, is no less valuable than it ever was.

Principle of Relevant Evidence.

There is, then, a significant backdrop of faith behind modern arguments against God on the basis of evil. It is assumed, not proven, that a God beyond our reason could not exist—and therefore we conclude that he doesn’t exist. This is, of course, a form of begging the question. Our background beliefs set up our conscious reasoning to fail to find s

pessimism also has its own ontological argument: existence is that beyond which nothing worse can be conceived.

All the important inferences outside logic and pure mathematics are inductive, not deductive; the only exceptions are law and theology, each of which derives its first principles from an unquestionable text, viz. the statute books or the scriptures.

All that needs to be said now is that the God hypothesis can be articulated in a thousand ways other than the Christian one, so it’s unfair to claim they are the same thing.