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Response to the Latest Gabcast of Godismyjudge
I apologize to any readers who are getting tired of the back-and-forth betwixt Godismyjudge (Dan) and myself. Dan has a new 43 minute audio response (link) to my latest blog post (link). I really don’t like that format of response for several reasons: it takes longer to listen to him speak than to read what…
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Trying out Godismyjudge’s Clarification
Godismyjudge (Dan) has provided some clarification (link) to an earlier question to which I had responded here (link). Earlier posts in the series (first)(second). Dan had asked: “Given whatever existed before the first act, was it absolutely impossible for God to create a world which didn’t include rain on May 31, 2008[,] in the afternoon?”…
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Deflating Assumptions Regarding Free Will – A Response to Ben Witherington
Ben Witherington has written an interesting post on the freedom of God. It actually meshes somewhat with my ongoing discussing with Godismyjudge (Dan) in other posts, and so it is fitting that I respond to some of the issues Ben raises in his article (link to article). Ben writes: “I take it that the primary…
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With Man it is Impossible – A Further Response to GodIsMyJudge
This is a response to a post (link) from Godismyjudge (Dan) responding to my earlier post here (link). Dan’s response doesn’t seem to consist of much. 1) Dan seems to think that God self-determining is significant. In fact he says, “Please just let me enjoy the moment.” As demonstrated previously, though, self-determining does not equate…
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God Determines All – A Response to Godismyjudge
In response to my recent post (link) on some fundamental problems with LFW, Godismyjudge (Dan) has provided a response (link). This is my rebuttal to his response. Ultimately, the problem I have with Dan’s response is this: our position is that God sovereignly determines all of history. We don’t have any problem asserting that God…
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Thoughts on the Will’s Freedom
I was listening to an interesting discussion on the will’s freedom, in which the compatibilist noted the following: 1) The standard contemporary definition for Libertarian Free Will is the ability to do otherwise, given all preceding causal factors. 2) Thus, to take an example, if we choose to pull a trigger – we could have…
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Why Did Adam Sin? Objections Answered
“Orthodox” has objected to my previous post (here) as follows: You’re totally ignoring the issue. Adam had a non-corrupt nature. But he defied that nature and sinned. People today have a corrupt nature. But they can defy that nature and repent. If you deny the latter, then you cannot wave away the theological problem of…
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Derren Brown – Frail Free Will – Part 2
Here’s another Darren Brown video. This time, the subliminal message is more subtle. Watch and see if you notice it/them. http://www.youtube.com/v/hClJLxsS1TY&hl=en I suppose you did not. Spoiler alert: If you do not want to see how subliminal message was conveyed, don’t read the rest. Really, seriously, if you do not watch the video before you…
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Why Did Adam Sin?
One reader (“Orthodox”) asked: So why did Adam sin? Because God made him bad? Adam ate the forbidden fruit because he listened to his wife, rather than God. Genesis 3:17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded…
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On Freedom In Choices – Response to "Orthodox"
I had written: The fact that men do make choices, and that some of those decisions are free, does not mean that they are free in the sense required by Arminian, Molinist, or Open Theist interpreters. “Orthodox” responded: If you admit that some decisions are free, you have a lot of work to do to…