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>>13791195
1: Instead of saying "It implies X", you need to show that it implies X. As you didn't do that, I reject argument 1 as unfounded.
2: Point 2 and 5 contradict eachother. If the position is pessimistic(2), then the person holding it is strong(3). Not holding said opinion is optimistic, or atleast more optimistic then the most pessimist of views becuase the amount of pessimism can't be greater.
3: Demonstrate the truth of this by giving me some bible verses. Alternatively, christianity could be false.
4: I'd argue it's the opposite.
1: God is an all good, all powerful, all knowing mind upon which everything depends.
2: To say that one believe in god means that one believe in an entity described in 1.
3: God created the universe.
4(1,3): The universe is the best of all possible worlds.
For this conclusion not to follow from the concept of god, one has to deny any of the traits of god or to to deny that god created the universe, which naturally follow from the concept of god being eternal. The only way to avoid the conclusion of us living in the best of all possible worlds is to not believe in
god.