Posted by Mark Parnell on 05/31/06 23:45

Deciding to do something for the good of humanity, Toby Inkster
<usenet200605@tobyinkster.co.uk> declared in alt.html:
> dorayme wrote:
>
>> His existence is part of his essential nature. The idea of a
>> non-existent God is a silly idea. After all, the idea of God is
>> of a perfect being, how perfect would a non-existent God be?
>
> This is an old, and seriously flawed argument.

Agreed. It's like the Babel Fish. It proves God exists and so therefore
He doesn't. :-)

> For example, say anything that exists has a height.

But that is also a false assumption. What is the height of gravity?

> So if God is defined as a perfect being, God cannot exist, as existence
> implies imperfection.

Only with a limited view of existence.

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Mark Parnell
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