Alex Strasser (Protestant) and John Buck (Catholic) debate the merits of finite theism, the view that God is limited in power. Theistic finitism is less vulnerable to the problem of evil than perfect being theism, but are there other trade-offs that make the notion of a finite God less defensible overall?
John is defending the view that strong versions of omnipotence avoid problems of vagueness, arbitrariness, ad hocness, lack of predictive power, and complexity that limited models of God suffer from. John also thinks that a new problem of evil arises that is particular only to limited views of God.
Alex will give a cosmological argument and fine-tuning argument for finite theism, and further argue that omni-theism is not a fruitful research program due to serious issues with coherence and the analysis of omni-properties. Theistic finitism is rarely discussed in the philosophy of religion, and Alex wants to invite us to take finite theism more seriously and to investigate it carefully.
Debate: Is God Finite?
Previous limited god debate
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CA103 Defeat, Evil, & Hell – w/ Christian Idealism & Invoking Theism
CA102 The Most Plausible Form of Christianity
CA101 Five Arguments Against God w/ Jonathan MS Pearce
CA100 A Catholic and an Atheist Debate God
CA99 Teleological Evil
The Problem of Evil w/ Dry Apologist
CA98 Religious Experience & Conclusion (Devil’s Advocate pt. 3)
CA97 Widespread Theistic Belief & Religious Disagreement (Devil’s Advocate pt. 2)
CA96 Debunking Myself on God (pt. 1)
Does God Exist? Devil’s Advocate Debate
CA95 The Argument from Psychophysical Harmony w/ Dustin Crummett
CA94 Logical Fallacies?
Meager Moral Fruits Discussion – Guest Appearance on Jonathan MS Pearce’s Show
CA93 Is Mormonism the Best Version of Christianity? — with Tarik D. LaCour
CA92 The Meager Moral Fruits Argument
Is Free Will An Illusion? with Theoretical Bullshit
CA91 Why won’t God heal amputees?
From Young Earth Creationist to Atheist – Guest Appearance on Answers in Reason
CA90 Hell: Eternal Conscious Torment
CA89 Why I don’t spend more time on contingency arguments
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