ABSTRACT
Next to the problem of evil, the most important objection to belief in God is the problem of divine hiddenness.1 This latter problem starts from the supposition that God exists-after all, God is hidden only if God existsand then reduces that supposition to absurdity by pointing out that if God exists, then the following mutually inconsistent claims are true:
P1. God has allowed himself to remain hidden from many people. P2. It would be bad for an omnipotent, omniscient God to remain hidden
from anyone. P3. God, being perfectly good, cannot do anything that is bad.
