Tea Requires Water: An Analogy (via Mike Robinson) A cup of tea is wet, quenches the thirst, spills, and freezes. Water is wet, quenches the thirst, spills, and freezes. However, water doesn’t need tea to be water. The tea needs water to be tea. Drinkable tea presupposes and requires water. And the laws of logic…
Transcendentals The understanding of a transcendental is generally put forth in one of three ways in modern thought. First, a transcendental can refer to that which is transcendent, such as the existence of the Christian God, Allah of the Islamic faith or deistic gods outside of the created order. Next, a transcendental may be…
In today’s Sunday School we spoke to the issue of God’s Necessary and Free Knowledge. Other topics were addressed as well, including issues regarding possibility and conceivability and God’s creation via His self contained nature. Here’s the MP’3 – Sunday School 3_17_13
Just a short note. Yesterday evening I was doing some sermon prep on the Fourth Commandment and our ongoing obligation to keeping the Sabbath (in the Christian sense), when I came across an article which read in part; True Christians are Anti-War A fundamental, foundational tenet of our belief is opposition to carnal warfare. Of…
Today’s Sunday School lesson dealt with God’s exhaustive foreknowledge and man’s moral responsibility. What I attempted to demonstrate today was multi-fold. First, if God knows a future event, and if He knows it perfectly, than it is a necessary truth that the event will come to pass. Meaning, the event’s certainty is tied to the perfect nature…
I’m sure by now many of you have read Bill Nye and his comments made for evolutionism and against those who hold to a creationist understanding of origins. Just a quick comment if I may on this issue. In his statement, Nye states the following, “It’s just really a hard thing, it’s really a hard…
In naturalistic atheism, all that exists in the universe is “matter in motion”- even in the area of human “thought.”As a result, all free thought is lost in this system, because the thoughts produced by an individual are simply the result of an electro-chemical response due to internal and external stimuli (remember, everything is physical…
I often go to YouTube to check out and study apologetics videos and quite often, I read the comments which are left behind by atheists. Question: why is it that many atheists claim to use logic, rationality and the such, but, cannot see the most simple flaws in their argumentation? As I was watching a…
Recently, I have been studying the topic of Molinism, which some view as an alternative to the classical Reformed understanding of “Compatibilism.” While studying this topic, I contacted a philosopher that has debated this issue in favor of the Molinist view-point and we agreed that the following is not valid: p1: Necessarily (if God foreknows…
As noted in the previous post, if God perfectly foreknows that “X” will “S,” then, the outcome of “S” in certain in advance, because God is omniscient and knows nothing falsely. However, this does not mean that “S” will come about necessarily. John Calvin touched on this subject in his famed work, “The Institutes of…
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