Belief Systems: Coherency, Completeness, and Reality
Something that you believe is obviously a belief. To be more precise, a belief is a statement about the universe that the holder believes to hold true. The sum of all the things that you believe is...
View ArticleBefore the Beginning of Time…
The word “before” is commonly defined something like this, “During the period of time preceding a particular event, date, or time”. Let us consider, for a moment, the question; What was before the...
View ArticleThe Nonexistence of Undetectable Things
Why is there no proof of God’s existence? If you ask a Christian this question, you get a barrage of “proof” that after a little digging, turns out to be nothing but faith. However, some of the...
View ArticleSemantics Shemantics
The statement, “God does not exist,” is perfectly fine when used in normal conversation. Many atheists are heard saying this and they are attacked for it because of epistemological reasons. In the...
View ArticleThe Bible is Ambiguous – No Informative Value
The Bible is ambiguous and most Christians, I believe, can accept that. Given almost any passage, different people give different interpretations of the passage. Even a person who interprets a passage...
View ArticleThoughts on the Semantics of Free Will
Based on some of the comments left on my earlier post about free will ultimately being an illusion, I think I didn’t adequately explain myself. Hopefully this post will help convey my perspective and...
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