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#20 Joe Schmid - Arguments For God Tier List

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The Contradiction in the Argument That There Is No Necessary Being

"It isn't a contradiction. have not stated a contradiction you're just saying it is possibly not the case that there exists an x such that x is a necessary being," he says. "When you put it like that it sounds like a contradiction but it's not a contradiction so should we see what the sliness is i think is that i said god is defined as a being that exists necessarily but that's not quite right yeah." He adds: "Taking that first root is just disastrous because you can define anything necessarily existent then you'd be able to prove absolutely anything really well no i could just say that the necessarily existing cup that is defined as 'god'  there's

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