Welcome back to the Hiddenness Series. In the last episode, we looked at Schellenberg's concept of a nonresistant nonbeliever which plays a central role in his argument from Divine Hiddenness. To refresh, somebody is a nonresistant nonbeliever if they (1) fail to believe that God exists and (2) that failure is not the result of their resistance to God. We also looked at the concept of resistance at play here and we saw that it included a desire component in conjunction with actions or omissions driven by that desire. Certain desire/action/omission combinations, if expressed by a person could conceivably cause that person to fail to believe that God exists even though they did believe to begin with. Some form of Self-deception would have to be at play here. Schellenberg calls such persons resistant nonbelievers and, according to the Hiddenness argument, if a perfectly loving God exists, resisters are the only type of nonbeliever that could exist. However, Schellenberg claims resistant nonbelievers are not the only type of nonbelievers that exist. According to him, some nonbelievers are nonresistant. His argument requires this. But is he correct? Lets take a look.
RA049: The End of Divine Hiddenness? (Part 6 of the Divine Hiddenness Series)
RA048: A Conversation on Divine Hiddenness with Gavin Ortlund (Part 6 of the Divine Hiddenness Series)
RA047: Gavin Ortlund is Wrong about Divine Hiddenness (Part 5 of the Divine Hiddenness Series)
RA045: What is a Nonresistant Nonbeliever, Really? (Part 3 of the Divine Hiddenness Series)
RA044: The Argument from Divine Hiddenness (Part 2 of the Divine Hiddenness Series)
RA043: The Varieties of Hidden Experience (Part 1 of the Divine Hiddenness Series)
RA042: Kenny Pearce on Arguments and How to Have Them Productively
RA041: Joe Campbell on Hume's Refutation of the Cosmological Argument
RA040: Jeffrey Jay Lowder on Philosophy of Religion
RA039: Matthew Adelstein on Utilitarianism and Theism
RA038: Debate: Schieber and Hernandez on the Existence of God.
RA037: Bill Vanderburgh on Misinterpretations of Hume’s Of Miracles
RA036: Ben Watkins on Hume Against the Believability of Miracles
RA035: Andrew Pavelich on the Moral Problem with the Free Will Defense
RA034: Kenny Pearce on Protestantism, Catholicism, and Apologetics
RA033: Kenny Pearce on Fruitful Dialogue and the History of Philosophy
RA032: Dustin Crummett on Harmony and Hiddenness
RA031: Dustin Crummett on Suffering, Spiders, and Simulations
RA030: Michael Hemmingsen on Soul-Making and Social Progress
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