In class today, we talked a lot about atonement and the forgiveness that goes along with it. One question that was raised was “what if the offended didn’t give you the option to atone for what you did wrong?” Well, in my opinion, that raises another question of what if the offender recognized that they [...]
I was reading a bunch of the philosophy of religion posts that explore the idea of a triple O-god, and while wondering whether or not god exists, I started to wonder; if god doesn’t exist, then why would the idea of god exists? And this made me think about the idea that maybe god is [...]
I thought this video was interesting and might stir up some controversy for the philosophy of religion class. Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus || Spoken Word
As a young child I was told to believe in god. Every Saturday my family would attend our temple along with a large portion of other conservative Jews. Along with that every Sunday I would attend a Jewish day school and learn things like the prayers and culture of my Jewish heritage. At the age [...]
As a young child I was told to believe in god. Every Saturday my family would attend our temple along with a large portion of other conservative Jews. Along with that every Sunday I would attend a Jewish day school and learn things like the prayers and culture of my Jewish heritage. At the age [...]
According to the paradoxical argument of the stone, it asks if an Omnipotent being can create a stone heavy enough that itself cannot even lift it. Here it is paradoxical because if the Omnipotent being can lift the stone, it fails to make that heavy stone. Again, if it cannot lift it, it [...]
There was a part of the second C.S. Lewis reading that i found particularly entertaining. It was the very beginning when he began to talk about atheists and religious persons in relation to each other. He said that being a christian doesn’t mean that you have to find complete fault in the other religions, but [...]
By knco | February 1, 2012
In a basic model of atonement, human beings generated a debt to God for offending Him with their sins. In response, God comes down to Earth in the human form of Jesus Christ and endures the penalty for humans’ sins, saving them from Hell. If this is true, then why [...]
Mavrodes article on, “Some Puzzles Concerning omnipotence,” seems to come to the conclusion that by proposing “putative tasks that are self-contradictory,” to test God’s omnipotence are not effective way to answer the question if God is truely omnipotent. He concludes that they are out of the realm of possibility because the objects do not exist.
By WOLF | February 1, 2012
Hey all,
I was in Epistemology today and we were discussing issues regarding the access of the reading material via GoogleDocs. One particular issue involved students not being able to access their Fredmail off campus. Being a victim to this horrible disaster, I decided to investigate the issue personally. For some reason, Fredmail has difficulty with [...]
In C.S. Lewis’ first book, he references this “Morality Law” repeatedly. In many cases here in the United States, there are many people that believe that there should be some sort of “morality class” in school districts. In this sort of class, some people think that there should be some sort of curriculum that teaches [...]
George Mavrodes wrote an article discussing the possible omnipotence of God. He challenges the question of, “Can God make a stone too heavy for him to lift?”. This question is of course a complex one because if he cannot make a stone that heavy, then he is not all powerful. However, if he cannot lift [...]
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