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[Ichthus77 (Ichthus77 (formerly She™))]

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what is the ‘why’ word referring to, exactly? In other words, what is ‘the reason’ why God incarnated?

Love. To communicate/demonstrate unconditional love to those willing to receive it.

Antony Flew’s “There Is A God”

I like how on 44 & 48, Flew accepts that pain is something theists let count against (falsify) the hypothesis that God loves humankind, so that it is not an empty hypothesis, and things can count for (verify, though less stringently defined) that hypothesis, as well. I like that he agrees with Heimbeck’s critique that he was wrong to collapse the distinction between “counts against” and “is incompatible with”. It becomes an issue of – is it a defeater? Flew references the free will defense (73),…