JonathanB has provided a response (link here) to my previous post (link here), in which I responded to several of his objections. In the dialogue below, within the block quotations, the boldface is JonathanB’s summary of my response, and the not-boldface type is JonathanB’s response. Rejoinder 1: Some unfounded claims (and some axioms) are arbitrary…

President Bush recently called the pope, “Sir,” instead of “Your Holiness,” drawing gasps from the Catholics present. Personally, I cannot imagine a legitimate reason for Bush meeting with the pope in the first place (one reason my kudos is mixed), but if he is going to do so, he is at least to be commended…

Circular Frame Presuppositional Apologetics Gone Terribly Wrong According to another Internet poster, JonathanB, Frame wrote: Criticism is effective only when the critic can suggest a better way. But there is no alternative to circularity [in relation to one’s ultimate commitment]… Circularity in a system is properly justified only at one point: in an argument for…

Another blog recently provided a review of a book by Gordon Clark on science. It was not a particularly favorable review. That, of course, is not neecessarily bad. Poor writing deserves to be panned. But I think the author of the blog read into Clark’s writing, rather than reading Clark’s writing for what it is.…

Another blog recently provided a review of a book by Gordon Clark on science. It was not a particularly favorable review. That, of course, is not neecessarily bad. Poor writing deserves to be panned. But I think the author of the blog read into Clark’s writing, rather than reading Clark’s writing for what it is.…

Theoretical Sufficiency? “Enough for as many worlds of men as there are men in the world.” Some Reformed Christians hold to a view that is essentially that Christ’s blood was theoretically sufficient for all of humanity. This view lacks Biblical support. I came across this view recently in reading commentaries on 1 Peter 2:1. Compare…

Authorized Version – Why not? This post is a challenge and a commentary. Why not use the Authorized Version of the Bible, i.e. the King James Version? Is the Language too hard?The usual response that the language is too difficult is bogus. Thousands of children read and understand KJV Bibles, and virtually all Christian children…

Sovereignty as applied to Land On another blog where I sometimes comment, one of the authors posted an entry regarding immigration that I found interesting. The conclusion of the article was: A law regarding illegal immigration has to be something that applies to us—what we can do, should not do, or ought to do. It…

A Final (hopefully) Example to Round Things Out Here’s a final example of the Presuppositional Blindness and its Impact on Epistemology, for the gentle reader (from the same thread of comments: The commenter writes: Yes, I misquoted. Nothing rides on this, though. Besides, Silverstein gives the impression that he was involved in the decision. “Maybe…