Joe Schmid and his beautiful laser eyes  Agnostic philosopher Joe Schmid, who owns a blog and a YouTube channel called Majesty of Reason, presents what he calls a “ simple, confessional argument against Classical Theism ” in one of his recent blog posts. The argument is as follows: 1.      If classical theism (CT) is true, then for any x, if x is not God, is created by God. 2.      If CT is true, then God is free to create or not create. 3.      If (i) God is free to create or not create, and (ii) for any x, if x is not God, is created by God, then for any x, if x is not God, x is contingent (i.e. can be absent from reality). 4.      So, if CT, is true then for any x, if x is not God, x is contingent. [1-3] 5.      There is some x such that x is not God and x is not contingent. 6.      So, CT is false [4-5]   Schmid is correct in pointing out that the issue in here is whether or not premise 5 is correct. To speak more precisely, if there is an x such that x is not abs