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Calvinism, Epistemology, Freewill, Metaphysics, philosophy, Steve HaysLeave a comment

Determinism and Skepticism

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It is sometimes stated that Determinism entails skepticism. That is presented by certain libertarians to undermine one’s confidence in Calvinism. It seems that they have a problem with accidental beliefs. Here was the response of Hays to Spencer Toy on this problem: Spencer Toy said: As William Lane Craig has stated, once a person embraces determinism of any sort a strange vertigo sets in. One very well may believe true things, but only because they’ve already been determined to believe those things just as much as their opponents have been determined to believe false things. In such a system, nothing can be … Continue reading Determinism and Skepticism

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Ye are gods

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I wasn’t going to comment on the Leighton Flowers free will debate but I didn’t expect him to say the things he did. Overall the debate was a train wreck; both sides were trying to preach rather than debate. I wanted, however, to comment on two things I noticed in the debate. First, Dr. Flowers said the following in his closing statements: We say people make determinations in the same mysterious way God chose to create “ex nihlio [sic]”: he created something from nothing. We can’t explain exactly how he does that; nobody can explain how God creates something from … Continue reading Ye are gods

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Multi-Valued Logic, Liar Paradox and Presuppositional Apologetics

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http://choosinghats.org/2012/12/pat-mefford-on-liar-paradox-and-titus-1-12-13a-again/ https://bcaskins.wordpress.com/2012/12/31/the-liar-paradox-and-presuppositional-apologetics-3-a-final-reply-to-patrick-mefford/ https://bcaskins.wordpress.com/2013/01/05/the-liar-paradox-and-presuppositional-apologetics-4-defending-classical-logic/ Continue reading Multi-Valued Logic, Liar Paradox and Presuppositional Apologetics

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Psychopaths and Morality

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Steve Hays once said: “Most atheists are physicalists. The brain generates the mind. So morality is located in the brain. … Although psychos have abnormal brains, they don’t have defective brains, since–according to naturalism–there’s no way the brain is supposed to be. And psychopaths can be highly functional. On this view, morality is arbitrary. Morality is an artifact of brain structures. If you change the wiring, you change morality. In theory, evolution might have made psychopathic brains normal rather than abnormal. The majority might have psychopathic brains. Empathetic humans would be abnormal. From a naturalistic perspective, that’s all there is … Continue reading Psychopaths and Morality

Dr. James Anderson, Jimmy Stephens, philosophy, Steve Hays, Trinity, UnitariansLeave a comment

A simplistic discussion on the Trinity

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This is not a full-blown model of the Trinity, but it will allow a simplistic articulation of the orthodox doctrine. The Trinity is a very complicated debate and I don’t have the brainpower to say anything remarkable about it. The only thing I will attempt is to explain or formulate a decent trinitarian doctrine. We will start with Biblical monotheism and move from there. In Christian theology, we know that only one God exists, Yahweh. This is foundational to a Biblical worldview(Deut 6:4, Psalm 86:10, Isa 40-48, John 1:1-3,17:3, 1Cor 8:4-6, Gal. 4:8-9). This also puts us in a strange … Continue reading A simplistic discussion on the Trinity