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Mackie claimed that Moreland's argument was internally inconsistent, since
{ 1 } - it's senseless to speak of God bringing about the "beginning of time," since God would have to exist prior to this beginning.
{ 2 } - God would have to exist for an infinite time span -- which is impossible if there's no actual infinite.
{ 3 } - it's inconsistent to say that there's evil in a world created by a God who is all-good and all-powerful.
{ 4 } - Mackie raised all these objections.
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Mackie claimed that Moreland's argument was internally inconsistent, since
{ 1 } - it's senseless to speak of God bringing about the "beginning of time," since God would have to exist prior to this beginning.
{ 2 } - God would have to exist for an infinite time span -- which is impossible if there's no actual infinite.
{ 3 } - it's inconsistent to say that there's evil in a world created by a God who is all-good and all-powerful.
{ 4 } - Mackie raised all these objections.
Mackie didn't mention this objection. Moreland mentioned it, and said: "When we use 'prior' here, we do not mean temporally prior to time, but outside time altogether. God existed 'prior' to the first moment in that he was -- and is -- timeless. This may be mysterious and inspiring, but it is not incoherent and contradictory."
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Mackie claimed that Moreland's argument was internally inconsistent, since
{ 1 } - it's senseless to speak of God bringing about the "beginning of time," since God would have to exist prior to this beginning.
{ 2 } - God would have to exist for an infinite time span -- which is impossible if there's no actual infinite.
{ 3 } - it's inconsistent to say that there's evil in a world created by a God who is all-good and all-powerful.
{ 4 } - Mackie raised all these objections.
Mackie admitted that one could get around this by denying that God is in time. (This is Moreland's solution.) However, Mackie thought that this makes God mysterious.
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Mackie claimed that Moreland's argument was internally inconsistent, since
{ 1 } - it's senseless to speak of God bringing about the "beginning of time," since God would have to exist prior to this beginning.
{ 2 } - God would have to exist for an infinite time span -- which is impossible if there's no actual infinite.
{ 3 } - it's inconsistent to say that there's evil in a world created by a God who is all-good and all-powerful.
{ 4 } - Mackie raised all these objections.
Mackie raised this objection elsewhere. It's not really an objection to Moreland's argument (which doesn't try to show that God is all-good and all-powerful).
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Mackie claimed that Moreland's argument was internally inconsistent, since
{ 1 } - it's senseless to speak of God bringing about the "beginning of time," since God would have to exist prior to this beginning.
{ 2 } - God would have to exist for an infinite time span -- which is impossible if there's no actual infinite.
{ 3 } - it's inconsistent to say that there's evil in a world created by a God who is all-good and all-powerful.
{ 4 } - Mackie raised all these objections.
He only raised one of them.
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