The flaw in your argument once again, is that it attempts to prove too much.
You would have to show that there are no possible reasons God would have for allowing for example, what you claim to be an "unclear" text or "malaria" or other "flaws" to exist in a world He actualizes.
What the flaw is is really irrelevant. Heck, just lump them all together and call it "flaw world".
You would have to show that there are no possible reasons God could have for allowing "flaw world" to exist.
The closest thing I have seen from you in the way of an argument is the claim that God is perfect and being perfect necessarily means that a perfect being could have no possible reason for creating "flaw world".
God, therefore in your mind, is a being who can't create a world with "flaws". So it is clear that this whole endeavor is just question begging. You start out by assuming what you are trying to prove.
That is the problem with your argument. It is question begging.
Lol you start off saying that the problem of my argument is that it "tries to prove too much". I've never heard that before, but it certainly doesn't...you haven't shown us otherwise either.
Then, you end your post saying that my argument's problem is that it "begs the question"...it certainly doesn't. You haven't shown what question it "begs" nor how it begs that question either. This claim, like the previous one, can be dismissed since you haven't logically shown either of them.
Let's look at some of your claims here anyways...
You said, "You would have to show that there are no possible reasons God would have for allowing..."
No I wouldn't. God could have a hundred "good reasons" for creating a flaw...it would still be a flaw. A perfect creator cannot logically create flaws...if he did, he wouldn't be perfect.
You said this, "What the flaw is is really irrelevant. "
It's relevant to the point that it must actually be a flaw in his creation...like inefficiency. The flaws cannot be something that I just personally dislike, for example, but rather must be genuine imperfections in god's creation.
You said this, "You would have to show that there are no possible reasons God could have for allowing "flaw world" to exist."
No...I wouldn't. I simply have to show that they are flaws. A perfect creator god cannot create flaws. In the case of his message to mankind...I demonstrated it's inefficiency.
You said this, "The closest thing I have seen from you in the way of an argument is the claim that God is perfect and being perfect necessarily means that a perfect being could have no possible reason for creating "flaw world"."
I'm pretty sure I didn't make this claim...but I could be wrong. Link me to the post where I said this or something similar.
You said this, "God, therefore in your mind, is a being who can't create a world with "flaws". So it is clear that this whole endeavor is just question begging. You start out by assuming what you are trying to prove."
Your first sentence is correct...except that this is logically true, not just true "in my mind". In fact, it's so painfully obviously true...I didn't realize that I had to explain it to you. However, when you asked me to prove this true...I did. I'll give you an analogy though, since now it appears that you struggled with my two-step logical proof....
...imagine that we have a machine which makes toasters. Every 10th toaster it makes is horribly broken (flawed). Is this machine "perfect" at making toasters? Or is this machine flawed at making toasters?
Now, since you seem to be under the mistaken impression that "good reasons" for a flaw will change this argument....I'll modify the example above to include a "good reason" for those flawed toasters.
...imagine our toaster-making machine has been sabotaged by one of the factory workers. Is that a "good reasons" for why this machine makes flawed toasters? You betcha...it easily explains the flawed toasters. Does this change the fact that toasters are flawed? Of course not... Is our sabotaged toaster making machine perfect at making toasters? Or is it still flawed at making toasters?
It's still flawed...not perfect. Can a logically perfect creator god make flawed creations? Nope...because he would then be imperfect at creating. If he has really good reasons for making his flaws....are they still flaws? Yup, always will be.
