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| Paper IPM / Philosophy / 12679 |
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This paper examines the relationship between human sin and divine hiddenness,
drawing on views that are widely acknowledged within the Reformed tradition. It
argues, first, that according to these views there is no inculpable nonbelief, and thus,
second, that a crucial premise in the atheistic argument from divine hiddenness is
untenable. The overarching question here is: If there is a sensus divinitatis, is it
possible to be an inculpable nonbeliever? To answer this question, the cognitive
effects of sin on our sensus divinitatis as a faculty of producing basic beliefs about
God will be assessed. I conclude that the premise, which many find plausible, that
there is inculpable nonbelief, is in fact controversial and dubious.
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