The Importance Of And Evidence For Paul's Authorship Of Ephesians
https://triablogue.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-importance-of-and-evidence-for.html
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
The Importance Of And Evidence For Paul's Authorship Of Ephesians
Steelmanning, Strawmanning, and Supermanning
Steelmanning, Strawmanning, and Supermanning
https://randalrauser.com/2022/03/steelmanning-strawmanning-and-supermanning/
A Case *FOR* and a Case *AGAINST* the Longer Ending of Mark
A Case for the Longer Ending of Mark
An argument for Mark 16:9–20 as the original, canonical ending, written by Mark but added by his colleagues.
by James Snapp Jr.
https://textandcanon.org/a-case-for-the-longer-ending-of-mark/
A Case against the Longer Ending of Mark
An argument that Mark 16:9–20 is not original and so not inspired Scripture
by Peter M. Head
https://textandcanon.org/a-case-against-the-longer-ending-of-mark/
Interview with J.P. Moreland & William Lane Craig | Philosophical Foundations 20th Anniversary
Interview with J.P. Moreland & William Lane Craig | Philosophical Foundations 20th Anniversary
Why Believe in God? w/ William Lane Craig and Michael Ruse
Comedian and actor Bryan Callen had Christian apologist William Lane Craig and agnostic philosohper of science Michael Ruse on his podcast. See also Callen's interview with Christian Intelligent Design proponent Stephen C. Meyer and atheist skeptic Michael Shermer HERE.
Why Believe in God? w/ William Lane Craig and Michael Ruse
PART TWO
Why God Must Exist w/ Dr. William Lane Craig and Dr. Michael Ruse
https://youtu.be/huCQ0klhrdg
By the way, in times past and multiple times Michael Ruse has distanced himself from atheists like Richard Dawkins. Notice these quote:
"The God Delusion makes me ashamed to be an atheist.... Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion would fail any introductory philosophy or religion course. Proudly he criticizes that whereof he knows nothing"
-Michael Ruse; atheist/agnostic and Philosopher of Science
I have written that [Richard Dawkins' book] The God Delusion made me ashamed to be an atheist and I meant it.- Michael Ruse, well known philosopher of science.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2009/nov/02/atheism-dawkins-ruse
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
One of Many Possible Calvinistic Approaches To the Problem of Evil
I recommend Vincent Cheung's materials with various qualification and caveats. I've expressed and listed some of my disagreements and agreements with Vincent Cheung in one of my blogs HERE. For example, I disagree with Cheung's tendency toward Hyper-Calvinism. Due to his Hyper-Calvinistic tendencies some of his solutions to the Problem of Evil will be difficult for many people to accept, including Calvinists. Nevertheless, he makes some great points in the following article. Some of his points I'm open to but don't dogmatically hold. They can be possible options as last ditch responses to the problem of evil. The more options Christians have in responding to the problem of evil from a Christian point of view, the more it demonstrates that the problem is not so problematic for Christianity.
So, I encourage people (especially my fellow Calvinists) to read his materials and add more tools into their apologetical tool box. Tools that won't be one's "go to" answers, but can function as alternative back-up and reserved answers. For example, most Calvinists appeal to compatibilism and deny occasionalism. Whereas Cheung thinks that's a mistake because the real question is whether humans have freedom relative to God. Given his understanding of occasionalism, no one has freedom relative to God, because God directly controls all things.
The Problem of Evil by Vincent Cheung
https://www.vincentcheung.com/2005/03/15/the-problem-of-evil/
See Also his related book The Author of Sin which is also freely online.
Here's a quote from pages 20-21 of The Author of Sin which addresses the problem of evil.
The writers exercise remarkable restraint toward compatibilism. They have everything set
up well enough that they could blast it to smithereens, but they want to play nice. So they
settle for saying that Augustine's is a "dubious contribution," and that the deterministic
aspects of his philosophy "cancel out any meaningful application of the concept of free
will."
This means that if a compatibilist truly affirms divine determinism, then what he says about human "freedom" or "free will" is meaningless – it is nonsense. These writers see this – most Calvinists refuse to see it.
Summary
Here is the way to avoid nonsense:
1. Affirm absolute divine determinism.
2. Deny all human freedom.
3. Base moral responsibility on God's sovereign decree to judge mankind.
4. Answer almost all related objections by doing the following:
a. Affirm that God is just and righteous by definition.12
b. Deny the unjustified premise, "responsibility presupposes freedom."13
There is no twisting and turning, no philosophical gymnastics, and no need to redefine this
and qualify that. God is sovereign, man is not free – and there is no problem. This is
biblical, coherent, simple, and defensible.
Footnotes:
12 This renders all "problem of evil" and "author of sin" type of objections inapplicable.
13 This renders human freedom irrelevant to the discussion.
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
Stephen Meyer: Has Humanity Forgotten God? (2023 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith)
Stephen Meyer: Has Humanity Forgotten God? (2023 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith)
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