Uploaded November 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
J.L. Schellenberg argues that God does not exist and he supports this argument with the Loving Mother analogy. In typical situations, the best mother always loves their children, and this love manifests itself through a mother’s openness to relationship with her child. Now, if a mother is not open to relationship with her children, she is seen by others as a bad parent. Therefore, God, who is the perfect “parent,” must always be open to relationship with his “children,” or he falls short of omni-benevolence. This implied assumption is that one’s openness to relationship is positively correlated with one’s love. Or, if one is truly loving, then one will always be open to relationships.
However, this correlation does not hold up, and this video will show why.
#divinehiddenness #whereisgod
J.L. Schellenberg argues that God does not exist and he supports this argument with the Loving Mother analogy. In typical situations, the best mother always loves their children, and this love manifests itself through a mother’s openness to relationship with her child. Now, if a mother is not open to relationship with her children, she is seen by others as a bad parent. Therefore, God, who is the perfect “parent,” must always be open to relationship with his “children,” or he falls short of omni-benevolence. This implied assumption is that one’s openness to relationship is positively correlated with one’s love. Or, if one is truly loving, then one will always be open to relationships.
However, this correlation does not hold up, and this video will show why.
#divinehiddenness #whereisgod
