Jimmy Stephens: A necessary condition of being a person is knowing God. Computers cannot possess knowledge – full stop. So computers cannot be persons. Isaiah: What would be the necessary condition for knowing God? Jimmy Stephens: The definite article “the” … Continue reading Computers and Knowledge
John 16:12-16 12 “I still have a lot to say to you, but you cannot bear it now. 13 Yet when the Spirit of Truth comes, he’ll guide you into all truth. He won’t speak on his own accord, but he’ll speak whatever … Continue reading Spirit of Truth
Comments from Jimmy Stephens: On my view, there are mind-independent affairs. Not that I’m committed to all universals explanatorily reducing to such an affair, but at least some universals seem to be patterns or principles of God’s activity in the … Continue reading God’s Design and Universals
A Catholic has tried to refute my article giving brief reasons to reject Catholicism. https://spirited-tech.com/2017/09/09/clashing-with-catholicism/ The Catholic Apologist Xico Stated: There is one divine essence that acts internally and externally only hypostatically. There is no divine act, ad … Continue reading Thomism, Doctrine Of God, & Roman Catholicism
Here is a conversation between Jimmy Stephens and some random person on the Privation theory of evil. Jimmy Stephens: The privation theory of evil is useless here. What Tyler intends to be a problem in the status is unaffected by … Continue reading The Privation of Reason
By Jimmy Stephens: On Christian Theism, God is self-existent, an idea freighted with a lot of metaphysical baggage. One metaphysical correlate is irrelativity. Who God is is not something defined by Platonic Forms or abstract properties or a force. God’s … Continue reading Philosophical Theism: A Transcendent Problem
There was a conversation with a Jewish Classical theist and Jimmy Stephens: GGK: The predication 1. God has “Triune” as an essential property. 2. The Son, The Father, The Spirit are not in possession of the property of “Triune” Conclusion … Continue reading Is “Triune” an Essential Property?
P1. If creation meticulously reveals God, God’s character logically prefers the actual world. P2. If God’s character logically prefers the actual world, the actual world is the only possible world. P3. Creation meticulously reveals God. C. The actual world is … Continue reading The Best of All Possible Worlds
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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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