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God, theology, metaphysics, Thomism and other .pdf's from various philosophy journals... https://t.co/sjbzROipF1
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If Kirks murderer is caught and given the death penalty - has justice been served? Is having 2 dead people justice? Is the 2nd dead body restitution for the first? Theism: Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord. Atheism: That's (in)just the way it is...
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"Inference to the best explanation" presupposes the Principle of Sufficient Reason.
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Physics is the god of matter. Metaphysics is the god of physics. God is God over both.
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The ancients were right - matter is so fleeting and helpless in its existence, there is nothing about it wherein it must be.
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Compromise destroys discernment. The Christian should not compromise with arguments that are without-God.
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Luke 8:39 “Return to your house and describe what great things God has done for you.” So he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.
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The best possible world is the world with the most amount of good The most amount of good is infinite good God alone is infinite good The best possible world is the world with God - which is all worlds as God is what makes all worlds possible
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Suppose there is a best possible world. -If an unsurpassably good God created our world, He would create the BPW. -Trees are good -Our world is not the BPW; one with more trees would be better. -Hence, an unsurpassably good God did not create our world.
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For miracles atheists want repeat occurrences to verify Miracles are not repeat/regular occurrences and thus cannot be verified and can be dismissed But if miracles are repeat occurrences then the atheist can claim it's a regularity of nature and can further dismiss God....
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God and man are not in the same league and thus do not play by the same rule. God is a rule unto himself, while man is ruled by God.
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Truths, facts, and propositions are about things, but if that thing doesn't exist then there is no good reason to believe the fact would. The platonic-atheist who constantly invokes "necessity" has no force here...
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When your philosophy is death... the resurrection and the Living God must be resisted....
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Resurrection day reminds us of mans problem enemy - mans greatest enemy: death For the atheist - they have no answer, indeed; atheism is death. For the Christian - they have Jesus, the resurrection and the life.
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The truth-about-something cannot exist without that-something first existing (in some way shape or form) No supposed necessary moral truth can exist without moral agents fist existing (in some way shape or form)
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Hosea 13:14 I will redeem them from the power of the grave: I will deliver them from death: O death, I will be thy death: O grave, I will be thy destruction: -God Man's greatest problem is death. The atheist has no answer, how can he - his philosophy just is death.
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Naturalism has no predictive power, but it does have a lot of projection power.
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