Reason and Religion

Reason and Religion

Reviewing and criticizing OF The Argument From Divine Hiddenness

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Mohammad Mohammadrezaei 1
Nargessadat Mortazavi Shahroodi 2
1 Professor ofPhilosophy and Theology Department, University of tehran, Farabi Pardis.
2 M A of Philosophy and Theologyn.
Abstract
One of the things that is discussed today as a reason for denying the existence of God is the problem of Divine Hiddenness. From the perspective of some of atheists, Divine Hiddenness is conflicting with existence of the Omnipotent, Omniscient and kind God. Such a belief by denying the existence and presence of God, will lead to corruption and destruction of the visions, ethics and deeds of peoples. So the present essay reviews the hiddenness argument in order to the special place of it in the field of philosophy of religion.
The reason of advocate of this argument is that if God existed, did not hide himself and then, non-belief dos not occur. The authors have criticized the argument itself and its bases. Then, by expressing this analysis that the argument is based on sensationalism, because God is concealment, criticized its bases. The final result is that this argument is not valid.
 
Keywords
God
the argument from Divine Hiddenness
the presence
criticism
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