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    This is so much better than formal debate structures because they can interact personally and ask each other questions and give immediate answers.

    Primrose still considers himself an atheist as pointed out by the host. But further along in the discussion at 37:30 he concedes God might exist, but he is not sure yet. At 1:13:45 he said he is Agnostic. Agnosticism is really just pretentious false humility in light of all the evidence cited.



    Interestingly enough Bart Ehrman says he is no longer an Atheist, now leaning towards Agnosticism.

    Primrose made some interesting statements: he does not agree with Hawking and that Primrose believes the big bang was not the beginning and that the big bang came from something (not nothing as you previously alluded he believed).

    Primrose said the reason he can't accept a Divine Mind is because it is not very specific like his math formulas. But what I was thinking when he said that was at some point along the way you are going to have to accept the mystery extends behind our intellect, because the Creator is infinitely greater than us. You can keep searching back but you won't be able to search beyond a certain point because that is information privy only to the Divine Mind. And no matter how vague you think the connection is to our understanding as unsatisfying, only the Divine Mind can satisfy and support the 3 mysteries of the physical, abstract and and mental.

    Essentially the mistake Primrose is making is through his own righteousness, self-exaltation, and arrogance is that he is demanding ultimately to know if God exists he himself must be God all-knowing which is necessarily impossible. That is the requirement he is putting on. His own constant searching beyond blows up, because it's error is found when he asked the question where does God come from? You can't look beyond the uncreated since it doesn't exist. That's self-contradictory.

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    This is all very fascinating to me because Primrose keeps bringing up one objection after another. That's what Hell is the place of eternal rejection of God in endless rebellion and contention to His will and design. For example, after solving the 3 mysteries, Primrose questions the ethical consideration of God. But these are as well originating from God Himself with objective truths that are unchanging.

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    By the way William Lane Craig is not a Christian. He is what is called an Arminian which teaches a person can lose salvation once saved. But the Bible teaches once-saved-always-saved. So Craig worships a false Christ and sadly is going to Hell. The reason for his stance can be found in his own pride in all the great work he does as an apologist. What he doesn't realize is that those who truly give their lives to Christ is to give your life to the God who will keep and never let go. That's the God Craig refuses to subject himself to.

    "And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any [man] pluck them out of my hand" (John 10.28).

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    Primrose asks why he should be driven to accept God, but that's where religion comes in, and not any religion, but the one true Religion that starts off by pointing out we are sinners which needs a solution which only the Creator can fulfill.

    Primrose's contention that this God postulated is too much like us degrades Him. Yet, the Bible says we are made in the image of God so aspects of conscience, free will, intellect, communion, intuition seem to be fair aspects of God's being. And since He exists outside of time and space, who created time and space, God is immaterial, timeless, spaceless, and all knowing.

    If Primrose complains about these aspects of our being similar to God, nonetheless they are the highest orders of our being so should not God have similar qualities? There are no other higher orders to mention.

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    Primrose talks about eons referring to endless universes and that our universe was created by a previous eon, etc. The reason though this is not possible is because if there was this alleged infinite regress of nature, by that definition you would have happened already, having had an eternity to do so. Again, Primrose is postulating ideas to get rid of God. The end result is God gets rid of Primrose by placing him in Hell, to be eternally separated from God and His people, where we are told he is forgotten.

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    Primrose's mantra is to keep repeating "we know so little" to know if God exists. What stands out glaringly when you make this comment, is you could maintain the stance for eternity always saying you don't know enough to know if God exists and whether fine tuning is really fine tuning. To me this is the ultimate excuse for rejecting God's existence, but as lame as lame can be. And notice, therefore, all centers on Primrose in taking this position. This is arrogance, self-exaltation. God has no use for such people.

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    Hawking said "there would be nothing on the other side to greet him." He is as atheistic as atheist could be, since if God exists there would be something on the other side to greet him, except that that greeting is the doorway to Hell. Because God is a moral being this must be true, because a person deserves the right to have the right to eternally separate himself from God for we are maximally great beings.

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    Hawking says free will is just an illusion. Hawking believes in scientific determinism. He also said, there is no objective reality. So that means you can do anything and it would be just as valid as anything else. Is Hawking going to Hell? Of course, without a doubt.


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    Oh and thank you for confirming that I will be able to post a link to the Hawking - Penrose theory when my post count reaches 5.

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    Here it is, Churchwork.

    https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspa.1970.0021


    Thank you.

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