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- Mon Sep 10, 2018 1:52 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: CA: Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God
- Replies: 24
- Views: 40070
Re: CA: Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God
Right, it has problems getting you to a personal God, but I wonder if it gets you to a God at all. "Being has to be" as we always used to say. And if God isn't necessarily the same thing as being (see the thread on your blog about God transcending being to account for things like creation, freedom,...
- Fri Sep 07, 2018 8:49 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: CA: Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God
- Replies: 24
- Views: 40070
Re: CA: Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God
Right, it has problems getting you to a personal God, but I wonder if it gets you to a God at all. "Being has to be" as we always used to say. And if God isn't necessarily the same thing as being (see the thread on your blog about God transcending being to account for things like creation, freedom, ...
- Thu Jul 05, 2018 8:40 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: What is free will?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10912
Re: What is free will?
Metaphysical free will: My actions are not necessitated by the past nor are they random. I think this is the kind of free will that Christians have in mind, not a compatibilist version.
- Wed May 30, 2018 1:35 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: feelimg of utter depmdence freedom from need to prove
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12603
Re: feelimg of utter depmdence freedom from need to prove
We experience a s se of unity in the life world that gives us a notion of a higher unity that;s pretty straight forward, like seeing red gives us the idea we see red, can you ask that of one claiming to see red? But the point of belief in God isn't merely phenomenological; it's ontological or metap...
- Mon May 28, 2018 3:31 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: feelimg of utter depmdence freedom from need to prove
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12603
Re: feelimg of utter depmdence freedom from need to prove
What is commonly translated "feeling"is not an emotional sense but a sensation or an intuitive sense. It is common to find even theologians defining it as an emotional or sentimental experience but this is something William S. Babcock warned us about at Perkins when I was in seminary. I think the p...
- Mon Apr 23, 2018 2:45 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: From David Albert's review of Krauss;'s universe from nothin
- Replies: 8
- Views: 13641
Re: From David Albert's review of Krauss;'s universe from nothin
Yeah, that sort of thing.
- Mon Apr 23, 2018 2:43 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: against Physicalism
- Replies: 24
- Views: 38633
Re: against Physicalism
Yeah, it's no problem. It was an interesting point. Too interesting to let it remain a "dangler"!
- Sun Apr 22, 2018 4:35 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: against Physicalism
- Replies: 24
- Views: 38633
Re: against Physicalism
What counts as "information"? The naive everyday sense of the word always relates to agents, human or non-human, but not, say, atoms (if atom A hits atom B, it is not informing B of its position). So arguments that relate information to physicalism must be more subtle... This doesn't mean that info...
- Sat Apr 21, 2018 3:28 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: From David Albert's review of Krauss;'s universe from nothin
- Replies: 8
- Views: 13641
Re: From David Albert's review of Krauss;'s universe from nothin
But then some of them say that the laws and such are not anyTHING, but only mathematical abstractions. (IMSkeptical has said that to me.) But isn't everything analyzed at a small enough scale that way?
- Sat Apr 21, 2018 3:24 pm
- Forum: Theology/Bible
- Topic: The age old question
- Replies: 26
- Views: 50072
Re: The age old question
I am reading a book on Sartre right now, and wonder exactly whether a kind of non-theological theodicy is demanded by existentialism; not suffering exactly but dissatisfaction arising from not realizing our freedom? Sorry, this is vague.
Bad faith?
Bad faith?