The Kalām Cosmological Argument and the Infinite God Objection

Erasmus, Jacobus; Verhoef, Anné H.

doi:10.1007/s11841-015-0460-6

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“…In a recent article, Erasmus and Verhoef (2015) address a dilemma which they think is faced by proponents of the Kalām Cosmological Argument (KCA) who attempt to show that the number of past events cannot be actually infinite by arguing that actual infinities cannot exist. They frame the dilemma as follows: either an actual infinite can exist or God cannot be omniscient in the sense of knowing an actually infinite number of future events or abstract objects.…”

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On the Infinite God Objection: a Reply to Jacobus Erasmus and Anné Hendrik Verhoef

Loke

2016

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Erasmus and Verhoef suggest that a promising response to the infinite God objection to the Kalām cosmological argument include showing that (1) abstract objects do not exist and (2) actually infinite knowledge is impossible, and (3) redefining omniscience as (G): For any proposition p, if God consciously thinks about p, God will either accept p as true if and only if p is true, or accept p as false if and only if p is false. I argue that there is insufficient motivation for showing (1) and (2) and that (G) is problematic as a definition of omniscience.

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