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Hume looking for a miracle

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Ever since Hume, it has been asked whether a miracle could ever occur. He defined a miracle as ‘a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity’. Tyler Vela: A Hume Divided Dr. Timothy McGrew: McGrew on Hume Do miracles break the laws of nature, as David Hume claimed? Dr. Stephen Meyer: Do Miracles Violate the Laws of Nature? Alvin Plantiga: Do Miracles Violate the Laws of Nature? Does Science Show That Miracles Can’t Happen? Dr. Craig Keener: Why don’t miracles happen whenever somebody needs them? Dr. William Lane Craig: How should we define miracles … Continue reading Hume looking for a miracle

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Concordism

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Here are the other parts: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, and Bibliography. The issue of Concordism arises from the modern climate of the progress of scientific inquiry. This is because of our privileged status in the plan of God. We have been given machines and inventions that have changed the world and subsequently our lives. Even as you read what I wrote you can see our dependency on Science. Even now the apologetics community is filled with men like Hugh Ross that bring science into the … Continue reading Concordism

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How to flunk Soteriology101?

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I will criticize Dr. Leighton Flowers based on bad argumentation and faulty reasoning. I have talked to him and he seems like a nice guy. He just has the strangest way of being obsessed with Calvinism. This will hopefully be … Continue reading How to flunk Soteriology101?

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Divine conceptualism is Univocism?

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Some very great men that I admire think that Divine conceptualism employs univocal reasoning. Dr. James Anderson and Dr. Greg Welty have responses to such a charge. Mainly in responses to Nate Shannon. “Nevertheless, one might worry that identifying propositions with divine thoughts breaches the Creator-creation distinction. Do we really want to say that God himself is the propositional content of all our human thoughts? Doesn’t that in some sense bring God “down to our level”? If that’s the concern, I think there’s a relatively straightforward solution to it. We can say that one part of the creation is a … Continue reading Divine conceptualism is Univocism?