A priories are the foundation of what comes later. They are the starting point of your argument. They are not formed from evidence or facts, but are choices. They form the foundation on how evidence and facts are interpreted. In a sense, they are the prejudice, the weight, the skew we give to what we…
Category: Philosophy
Christianity, Philosophy, Science
The Problem Of Evil
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There are those who believe that all religions of any consequence are an attempt to deal with the problem of evil and it is that problem that perplexes even the rationalists. I disagree. If we really lived in the sterile, non-spiritual, no ghost in the machine universe most scientific rationalists believe in, the real problem…
Christianity, Culture & Social Issues, Media, Personal, Philosophy
The Inclusivity of Hell
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One of the blogs I visit every so often (if you read my history I was Episcopal for 27 years), is the Midwest Conservative Journal, an ongoing critique of all things Episcopal. In a recent post, Christopher Johnson talked about finally giving up on any chance of redeeming the American Episcopal Church (ECUSA). I gave…
Christianity, Philosophy, Science
Templates of Understanding
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For all practical purposes, everything has a starting point. In searching for beginnings, we are ultimately led to one of two premises: God or not God. Many in our age argue that science naturally leads to not God, and if “religiously” followed, exposes, according this position, the folly of transcendent belief, especially the rigorous Judeo-Christian…
Christianity, Philosophy
The World in Which We Think
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While we often like to tell ourselves that we are in control of our lives, we are the arbiters of what we think and do, there are many intersecting areas of influence on our lives, which affect every aspect of our decision making process, from the physical to the intellectual. Without mitigating our responsibility for…
Christianity, Humor, Philosophy
Fractured Fridays: Scientific Creation
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Things have been so serious around here the past few weeks—job interviews will tend to do that to you—that I thought it was time for a little levity and craziness. With all of the contention going on between “science” and Intelligent Design advocates (some of whom are real, board-certified scientists) I thought I would throw…
Christianity, Culture & Social Issues, Philosophy
Troubled Times
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When David Wayne at JollyBlogger added me to his blogroll he placed me in the Culture section. Up to that point I had not really thought of myself as a cultural commentator. His classification made me give the idea some thought and I realized that David had pinpointed my niche rather well. To be honest…
Christianity, Knowing God, Philosophy
Theological Thursdays: Knowing God: The Adequacy Of God Part I
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Packer begins this final chapter with an assumption, stated clearly in the title: that God is adequate. He bases his arguments from the book of Romans. He starts out by asking a question, “What do you look for in the Bible?” Is it doctrine or life or the meaning of the Church or is it…
Christianity, Personal, Philosophy
Why?
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There are several questions that we begin asking at a very early age and then continue asking throughout our lives. Everyone is familiar with the two or three year old child who responds to some request with, “Why?” And then no matter what you say over the next few minutes it is like they are…
Christianity, Culture & Social Issues, Philosophy, Religion
Postmodernism
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Sometimes it is important to add your voice to a subject. Your unique view might give valuable insight that touches on points that others do not. Sometimes you write about something because it helps you to clarify your own thinking. But, often you just point the way to someone else because they have covered it…