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Village Atheist Warrior

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Here an atheist answered 5 questions my friend asked him and here are the results: “Your questions seemed like contorted, flowery pseudo-intellectual word games crafted to trip up atheists. I feel like these ‘questions’ have been geared to a predetermined answer of, “Because God did it.’ But… I’ll bite. 1. “How do you know your epistemological standard is the correct standard to have? State what the standard is and prove its truthfulness.” My epistemological standard is correct because it works, because the knowledge I gain from it is useful and leads me to new knowledge that also works and is … Continue reading Village Atheist Warrior

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“Start with”

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Atheist use to present to me the problem of starting points. They use to argue that we must start with ourselves or we must start with logic. That is because if we start anywhere else we would enter incoherence. You would have Christianity without logic and you wouldn’t know Christianity was your starting point because you didn’t know that you exist. The Christian says that he starts with God. How could he start with God at the expense of your own existence and laws of logic? The issue with this criticisms is that they confuse what is meant by “start … Continue reading “Start with”

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Wavering Wicca

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The worldview we will be looking at is Wicca. It is a religion that many believe to be thousands of years old and that it takes from various traditions of the world. The issue like every worldview is that there are multiple sects that exist within it and each has different core beliefs from one another. I’m not going to discuss every variety of Wicca but just some categorical beliefs that each form will fall in. For our purposes, we will divide it into 3 broad categories. Those are Monistic Wicca, Pagan Wicca, or Atheistic Wicca. Monistic Wicca: 1. Metaphysics … Continue reading Wavering Wicca

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Reductionist Christianity

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It is commonplace for an apologist of the non-reformed camp to maintain that inerrancy is not essential to apologetics. This is because they are arguing for something called “Mere Christianity”. This they believe reduces to the Gospel. I think that is ironic as they usually don’t even argue for that as they don’t include the issue of works salvation as a corruption of the Gospel. They collaborate with Catholics and Eastern Orthodox. It seems that “mere Christianity” doesn’t seem to even account for what Paul thought was essential to the Gospel. The other point presented is to distinguish between theology … Continue reading Reductionist Christianity

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A Presuppositional look at Mormonism

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Mormonism and Moral Absolutes. The Mormon god is an exalted man of flesh and blood. He not eternal, nor is he absolute. Thus, he fails as the absolute personal, precondition for the obligation men feel to be moral. Mormonism and Laws of Logic. Since the Mormon god is not eternal, that means he can’t account for invariant (i.e., unchanging) laws of logic. If they are not based on an unchanging eternal nature, their invariance today is inexplicable. ~ Keith Thompson This is sufficient refutation, but it isn’t as robust as it should be. The ethical issue for Mormonism is that … Continue reading A Presuppositional look at Mormonism

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A start for a philosophy of Christian science: Part 1

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This is the beginning of a series of articles related to the issue of Christianity and Science. These are a short defense of the idea that Christianity is necessary for science. Here are the other parts: Part 1, Part 2, Part … Continue reading A start for a philosophy of Christian science: Part 1

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A start for a philosophy of Christian science: Part 7

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This is part seven in my series on science.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 problem of induction: Let’s say that we observe a large number of objects with characteristic A, noting that all of them also possess characteristic B. It is natural for us to conclude that, in all probability, all objects with A also possess B — including those objects with A that have yet to be observed (or cannot be observed). The question Hume asked is, “What … Continue reading A start for a philosophy of Christian science: Part 7