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Strong Empiricism — Solipsism with a Lab Coat
Empiricism is not self-validating The claim that “only empirical evidence counts as real evidence” cannot itself be proven empirically. You cannot observe, measure, weigh, or test that rule in a laboratory. It is a philosophical assumption smuggled in before the experiment even begins. If evidence is restricted to only what can be observed, tested, repeated,…
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Atheism is a Lack of Belief
Anyone who has debated any atheist would most definitely have come across this statement: Atheism is not a belief, it is merely not affirming the proposition that, “there is a god/gods.” But theism is a belief, so you need to prove it. The trick here is that atheism wants to get defined minimally, while theism…
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Putting God on Trial
One of the great errors of modern man is that he thinks he can put God on trial. We speak as though God must answer to our moral intuitions, our emotional reactions, our preferred version of fairness. We ask, “How could God do this?” or “How could God command that?” as though God stands beneath…
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Can the Mind Host a Spirit?
The Problem with a Rigid Tripartite View of Man Recently, in a discussion I used a phrase: “The mind can host the wrong kind of spirit…” This statement was met with immediate objection on the basis that: “spirits are not in the mind and the mind does not host spirits.” This objection was very strange…
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The Insanity of Pride
God is the source. A sane creature should look at that and think, “There is nothing to envy. Everything good flows from Him. His presence is the highest good.” But pride is not sane and says: It is intolerable that goodness, glory, authority, and final say belong to another. I do not just want to…
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Why Does Jesus Not Say It Plainly?
During our Bible study, we read Luke 7. When we reached verse 23, I thought: “why doesn’t Jesus simply say, ‘I am He’? Why does He so often answer indirectly rather than directly and bluntly?” Nowhere in Scripture does Jesus say in those exact terms, “I am God, worship me.” But why not? Then it…
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