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St. Paul, on his visit to Athens, tried to convince the skeptics that there was a God and that God created the world. Why did most of the skeptics resist?
Plantinga responds that they perhaps resisted because
{ 1 } - belief would force them to change their lives.
{ 2 } - they were brought up to be skeptics and not to take belief seriously.
{ 3 } - the peer pressure in favor of skepticism was so great.
{ 4 } - He gives all of these as possible reasons.
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St. Paul, on his visit to Athens, tried to convince the skeptics that there was a God and that God created the world. Why did most of the skeptics resist?
Plantinga responds that they perhaps resisted because
{ 1 } - belief would force them to change their lives.
{ 2 } - they were brought up to be skeptics and not to take belief seriously.
{ 3 } - the peer pressure in favor of skepticism was so great.
{ 4 } - He gives all of these as possible reasons.
He also gives the other possible reasons.
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St. Paul, on his visit to Athens, tried to convince the skeptics that there was a God and that God created the world. Why did most of the skeptics resist?
Plantinga responds that they perhaps resisted because
{ 1 } - belief would force them to change their lives.
{ 2 } - they were brought up to be skeptics and not to take belief seriously.
{ 3 } - the peer pressure in favor of skepticism was so great.
{ 4 } - He gives all of these as possible reasons.
He also gives the other possible reasons.
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St. Paul, on his visit to Athens, tried to convince the skeptics that there was a God and that God created the world. Why did most of the skeptics resist?
Plantinga responds that they perhaps resisted because
{ 1 } - belief would force them to change their lives.
{ 2 } - they were brought up to be skeptics and not to take belief seriously.
{ 3 } - the peer pressure in favor of skepticism was so great.
{ 4 } - He gives all of these as possible reasons.
He also gives the other possible reasons.
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St. Paul, on his visit to Athens, tried to convince the skeptics that there was a God and that God created the world. Why did most of the skeptics resist?
Plantinga responds that they perhaps resisted because
{ 1 } - belief would force them to change their lives.
{ 2 } - they were brought up to be skeptics and not to take belief seriously.
{ 3 } - the peer pressure in favor of skepticism was so great.
{ 4 } - He gives all of these as possible reasons.
Plantinga claims that, apart from sin, they would all come to agree with Paul on the existence of God. Furthermore, Paul's inability to convince them doesn't show that Paul didn't have genuine knowledge that there was a God and that God created the world.
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