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God does not exist

Arguments for this claim

The Evidential Problem of Evil

  1. There exist instances of intense suffering which an omnipotent, omniscient being could have prevented without thereby losing some greater good or permitting some evil equally bad or worse.
  2. An omniscient, wholly good being would prevent the occurrence of any intense suffering it could, unless it could not do so without thereby losing some greater good or permitting some evil equally bad or worse.
  3. ∴ God does not exist. from 1, 2

William L. Rowe, “The Problem of Evil and Some Varieties of Atheism”, American Philosophical Quarterly 16 (4): 335–341, 1979.

The Argument from Divine Hiddenness

  1. If a perfectly loving God exists, God is open to a personal relationship with every finite person capable of one.
  2. A person cannot be in a personal relationship with God without believing that God exists.
  3. ∴ If a perfectly loving God exists, no capable person is a nonresistant nonbeliever. from 1, 2
  4. There are capable persons who are nonresistant nonbelievers.
  5. ∴ No perfectly loving God exists. from 3, 4
  6. If God exists, God is perfectly loving.
  7. ∴ God does not exist. from 5, 6

J. L. Schellenberg, “Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason”, Cornell University Press, 1993.

Arguments against

This claim is the negation of God exists, which has 3 arguments for it.