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Arminianism, Calvinism, Dr. Leighton Flowers, FreewillLeave a comment

Effectually Caused

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26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them. Most Freewill theists find it a repulsive notion that God “effectually” causes us to make choices. Notice that the conclusion from this passage would be that anyone God causes to walk according to His statutes must be robots and not culpable for their deeds.   Continue reading Effectually Caused

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Crisis of Identity

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The Trinity is a complicated doctrine shrouded in theological and philosophical debate. One part of this debate is the relationship between the law of identity and Trinitarian persons. Here was a recent argument provided in a group amongst my friends: 1) If trinitarianism is true, either the hypostases are identical to the ousia or they instantiate the ousia. 2) Hypostases are not identical to the ousia and hypostases don’t instantiate the ousia. 3) Therefore, trinitarianism is false. Here were some thoughts from Jimmy Stephens: Premise 1: A) Refutes itself. Suppose we apply this principle to the whole of reality, whatever … Continue reading Crisis of Identity

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Self-Imposed Illusions

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Well, I noticed that no response article was provided but I saw on his post and noticed that he responded in the comments. Well, let’s see what Thibodaux has to offer: The dearest Objector gives a few more replies. They’re honestly so vacuous and inane that I won’t even dignify them with another post, but I can dismantle his few remaining points here: This wouldn’t be merely him pandering if he had intelligent points. He hasn’t shown anything I’ve stated to be vacuous or inane.    @That means anyone’s interpretation of the facts if reality could by chance be equally … Continue reading Self-Imposed Illusions

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Mirrored Reality

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The whole point of the Boethian solution was that God’s timeless knowledge is partially comprised of what happens within time, what is temporal in part constitutes what is timeless. Since we can plainly see from the above counter-example that current action can make something timelessly true, I would counter we have no reason to think that God couldn’t base His timeless knowledge on what occurs within time. This is not our reaching into a timeless realm to affect God, but rather He reaching into His creation with and for His understanding. “…for the Lord searches all hearts and understands every … Continue reading Mirrored Reality

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Derrida, Foucault, and the Bible

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Dr. Christopher Watkins walks you through an introduction to the ideas of these famous postmodernist philosophers. It provides powerful observations that call for Van Tilian solutions about the ultimate context of reality.  https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/course/derrida-foucault-bible/#course-introduction He also had an interview with Dr. James Anderson about his books on these thinkers: Continue reading Derrida, Foucault, and the Bible

Arminianism, Calvinism, Divine Timelessness, Doctrine of GodLeave a comment

Thibo Dabble

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I’ll comment on the things Thibodaux asked: [“You can see his additional commentary here, though I’d recommend it for entertainment purposes only. On why he thinks choices are random:] Yes, other than the irony that some of these words apply to each article he has written in response to me. I appreciate his ability to be wrong.  [@But his article gives no explanation for why they aren’t blips of chance. Besides the fact that there’s no reason to buy his counter-intuitive assertion in the first place, free will being random (as I point out in the article) would imply that … Continue reading Thibo Dabble

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Innate vs Self-Imposed Dependencies

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I am responding to this response to one of my articles from Thibodaux, again: https://arminianperspectives.wordpress.com/2019/08/19/innate-vs-self-imposed-dependencies/ Does God depend upon anything in creation? Everyone agrees that God has no need of things like food, water, shelter, rest, etc. We often refer to this as God’s aseity –His independence of His creation. I suppose that his readers blindly accept his view on the issue of aseity. I’m sure that his dictionary definition is compelling but the topic is a proper philosophical understanding of aseity. Aseity is broader than God being independent of creation. If Thibodaux was correct, then God could be dependent upon many things. … Continue reading Innate vs Self-Imposed Dependencies