The Eleventh Decade of Psalms Introduction: In this psalm, among many other truths, we see that the Holy Spirit of God is the one who gives us all forms of life. “Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created” (v. 30). And in the Nicene Creed, which we recited today, we … [Read more...]
Magic Balcony
“Everyone wants to pretend that he can postulate a magic balcony upon which a finite creature can stand, and from which vantage that finite creature can survey everything in the cosmos that has any epistemological bearing or significance at all. Part of the deal is that everyone … [Read more...]
Scary
Proving the Proofs
“Finite creatures always have to begin from somewhere. Finite creatures have to start. God has created us in such a way as to be able to reason axiomatically, and for that to be the only way we could be able to reason. These axioms can be of pure reason (parallel lines don’t … [Read more...]
The Content Cluster Muster (6.6.19)
An Important Debate https://youtu.be/yji0fqtVEw8 A Matter of Prayer https://www.facebook.com/al.stout.56/posts/10158577634484899 Just Keep Going . . . As always, more here. Somebody Spent Some Time on This And it was well worth it . . . … [Read more...]
Epistemic Weird
“Epistemology is like taking your eyeballs out to look at them. If your optic nerve were elastic, and you could pull your eyeballs out and point them at each other, what exactly would you see?” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 80) … [Read more...]
Boycotts, Both Theirs and Ours
Introduction So as we are being treated to the spectacle of the South rising again, challenging the authority of the Feds again, and this time doing it when they have the manifest moral high ground, it is time to examine some of the secular freak-out reaction to it, not to … [Read more...]
Epistemic Turtles
“We want to start at the very beginning and we think that the very beginning is ‘How can we know anything at all?’ And, once we have answered the question of how we know, we ask how we can possibly know that. And as it turns out, it really is turtles all the way down” (Mere … [Read more...]
More Mailbaggery
Bible Reading Challenge A regular reader here. Just wanted to write to say I'll be taking part in the Bible Reading Challenge this summer. You write that “Tens of thousands of people are already involved in this movement. If it were hundreds of thousands, we would begin to see … [Read more...]
Faith Sits
“When a man sits down in a chair, he certainly has faith in the chair. But it is the chair that holds him, not his faith. The faith does not provide an iota of additional strength to the chair. But the faith still sits” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 76). … [Read more...]
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