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Logical Fallacy of Meaningless QuestionThe meaningless question is one of the many smokescreens that are used to cover the fact that the reasoning is based on one of the three fallacies of Agrippa's trilemma. Whenever a logical fallacy is committed, the fallacy has its roots in Agrippa's trilemma. All human thought (without Divine revelation) is based on one of three unhappy possibilities. These three possibilities are infinite regression, circular reasoning, or axiomatic thinking. This problem is known as Agrippa's trilemma. Some have claimed that only logic and math can be known without Divine revelation; however, that is not true. Without Divine revelation, neither logic nor math can be known. Science is also limited to the pragmatic because of the weakness on human reasoning, which is known as Agrippa's trilemma. The logical fallacy of meaningless question occurs when a question is asked that cannot be answered in a way that is rational. Examples of the Logical Fallacy of Meaningless Question
God is rational. He is all powerful, but there are things that are not part of His nature, like being insane. An ungodly person can ask an insane question, but God cannot be insane. God cannot lie. God cannot be unfaithful. God cannot be unloving--even His judgments are acts of love.
God is eternal, has no creator, has always existed. The question makes no sense. Someone who is brainwashed into naturalistic thinking may use circular reasoning to think that natural laws apply to God. In our created world, we know that created things must have a creator and that effects must have causes. We also know that, in our sin-cursed world, the Second Law of Thermodynamics (the fact that we observe everything running down and deteriorating and we never see any exception to the Second Law) means that if the Universe had always been in existence it would now be in a heat death. It would be universally distributed heat at just over absolute zero. However, God is not subject to the Second Law of Thermodynamics or the effects of sin on the creation. God does not need a cause or a creator. He is the first mover in all things.
Note that it could be possible that a given interpretation of that Biblical history may be in error, and asking whether an interpretation might be shown to be in error would not constitute the logical fallacy of meaningless question. 
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