From Jimmy Stephens old notes: Emanation: all contingent, secondary, “created” reality flows from the more default or prime reality. Unlike creationism, emanationism holds that derived existence involuntarily proceeds from prime reality. Empedodes and Democritus posited aporrhoea, emanations. Hylozoism might have … Continue reading Neoplatonism
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Phenomenal conservatism (PC) is the epistemological view according to which, roughly, the way things seem or appear to be is a source of justification for believing that things are actually so. Jimmy Stephens explains: The problem with PC is that … Continue reading Phenomenal Conservatism
A Faith Worth Receiving by Jimmy Stephens: I don’t have a perfect certainty on this issue. I have long wondered if faith has two elements, a passive and an active one, where the passive is the inward persuasion of the … Continue reading A Faith Worth Receiving
by Jimmy Stephens Yeah, I agree with @Spicy, this is intended as a hermeneutical problem of the criterion. So @Sachairi, we would all agree you should definitely look to the historical and cultural milieu of a work to interpret it. … Continue reading The Hermeneutical Problem of the Criterion
This article is not for the faint of heart. It’s subject is very technical and this will be very long. It is a discussion between a proponent of Penal Substitutionary atonement and someone that denies it for some form of … Continue reading Bahnsen or Spicy?: Essays on Penal Substitutionary Atonement, Ancapistan Press
Dr. John Peckham said: Some thoughts on indeterminism and Ephesians 1:11 (from pages 168 and 125 of my book Divine Attributes, Baker Academic, 2021). Note the explanation on page 125 that the term often translated “predestined” or “destined” simply means … Continue reading Unfulfilled Desires and Determinism
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Jimmy answered the question with this: Depends on the metaphysics of concepts, and whose concepts. If concepts are taken to be useful or social constructs for instance, then we have nominalism, since concepts are not existent classes of things but … Continue reading Is Nominalism and Conceptualism different?
A Tale of Two Timelessness by Jimmy Stephens Two things: First, Platonic timelessness involves no personal exchange whatsoever. It is “dead.” It contradicts that Yahweh is a living God, metaphorically pictured time and again by fire. God is alive. He … Continue reading A Tale of Two Timelessness
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