tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-882699495059104312.post9069281501172846596..comments2024-01-24T04:02:06.466-05:00Comments on Why I De-Converted from Evangelical Christianity: Is God the Author of Evil? Molinism has no better answer than CalvinismKen Pulliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12161943466797514854noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-882699495059104312.post-8618538606048349482020-01-15T22:47:50.504-05:002020-01-15T22:47:50.504-05:00This is a wonderful support for my research!
Adpo...This is a wonderful support for my research!<br /><br /><a href="https://www.adpoint.de/adwords-agentur" rel="nofollow">Adpoint</a>Felix Wenzelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09877588335202710541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-882699495059104312.post-13661255376447107242017-11-04T14:37:52.728-04:002017-11-04T14:37:52.728-04:00When our eternal soul leaves our body at death
N w...When our eternal soul leaves our body at death<br />N wisesabove to meet the Maker,<br />only four, last things remain:<br />death, judgement, Heaven or Hell<br />according to the deeds WEE mortals<br />have done in our Finite Existence.<br /><br />PS° I'm a re-boot NDE:<br />if you're RIGHT,<br />you'll see the LIGHT -<br />follow that to the Elysian Fields.<br />Let's be tethered2forever Upstairs.<br /><br />Find-out what RCIA means and join.<br />Make Your Choice -SAWAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09161116712679365281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-882699495059104312.post-82088626920666626472010-11-07T13:47:21.219-05:002010-11-07T13:47:21.219-05:00I always admired Ken's ability and patience to...I always admired Ken's ability and patience to critique this stuff, as well as various theories on Jesus' atonement sacrifice. I couldn't do it. To me, this book seems the same as four Star Trek fans discussing how warp drive technology works. Ken, however, could move past such irreverent cheap shots; and that why he'll be much missed.The Harbinger of Nothinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15201739377923582222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-882699495059104312.post-12995719181605167392010-11-04T00:44:52.256-04:002010-11-04T00:44:52.256-04:00Frankly, I don't really see what the problem i...Frankly, I don't really see what the problem is; in that I don't see how God's foreknowledge/sovereignty/fill-in-the-blank requires it.<br /><br />The classic formulation of the problem is a fallacy.ἐκκλησίαhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13337144930591740142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-882699495059104312.post-87077912061179736452010-11-03T22:45:37.346-04:002010-11-03T22:45:37.346-04:00When I say omniscience is impossible it is with re...When I say omniscience is impossible it is with respect to the future, not the past. If you could see everything going on right now and could live forever, you would be omniscient of the past. But there is no way you could be omniscient of the future.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-882699495059104312.post-91188624422019049612010-11-03T22:33:55.133-04:002010-11-03T22:33:55.133-04:00I've said myself in the past (it used to be on...I've said myself in the past (it used to be on my blog before a relaunch when I erased all the posts) that omniscience is simply impossible because a being who knew everything could not learn or take in new information, and hence could not think. Thinking is the processing of new information. To know everything that there is or ever will be would be to be unable to take in anything new, which would mean the end of processing new information, the end of thinking. An inanimate object perhaps could be omniscient, but a person could not, not even a god. The notion of omniscience is just religion taken too far. The religious love to kiss God's butt in an attempt to win his grace, and that's why they made him omniscient, something that is utterly impossible even for the most powerful being in existence.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-882699495059104312.post-79973885424366732422010-11-03T13:04:19.006-04:002010-11-03T13:04:19.006-04:00Molinism strikes me as simply a more genteel versi...Molinism strikes me as simply a more genteel version of Calvinism.<br /><br />While I applaud the sentiment of the Molinist, as Dr. Pullium said, the results are the same.Jim Turnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08382752988191965423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-882699495059104312.post-1406548340479235622010-11-03T05:11:50.769-04:002010-11-03T05:11:50.769-04:00Mike D:
I just finished reading Atheism Explained...Mike D:<br /><br />I just finished reading Atheism Explained. One thing Steele harped on was that if God is omnipotent then for him to do anything--anything at all--requires no more effort than for him to do nothing. I had never thought about it quite that way, but it's true--and it makes God all the more culpable if he fails to act.mikespeirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05397674737999065117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-882699495059104312.post-22690593990798671542010-11-03T04:44:54.218-04:002010-11-03T04:44:54.218-04:00This beautifully articulates the paradox between h...This beautifully articulates the paradox between humanity's "sin" and God's omniscience. <br /><br />I'd also add that we have a bias that favors acts of commission over acts of omission – for example, if we have the ability to save someone who is drowning but walk away, that action is more likely to be judged permissible than actively drowning someone, even though the outcome is the same. That fits with the paradox of God "allowing" sin versus "decreeing" sin; it doesn't matter. If God is omnipotent, "allowing" sin is nothing more than a passive decree.Mike Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04097261108461657167noreply@blogger.com