Continuing on from my previous post on the Trinity in the Old Testament, I will now discuss the use of the plural "we" in Genesis 1:26. This verse has interested scholars and theologians for centuries; how it is both translated and interpreted could have a significant impact on one's theology. To set the stage, I will first remind the reader of ...
xkcd comic Since the first two parts of the Plantinga Pwns series were pretty intense philosophically and covered quite a lot of ground, and given that the next topic in the series is the problem of evil - which also promises to be pretty intense - I decided to write this post as a bit of a breather. Here I'll cover the basics of philosophy ...
This is the development of a thought experiment that I took part in coming up with on a fourm a while back. Consider the following three hypothetical situations: ...
In my last post, we ended with Plantinga's rather disappointing conclusion that the arguments for the existence of God are not compelling. In the quest to determine whether belief in God is rational, he moves on to some of the arguments against the existence of God. It should come as no surprise that the main argument discussed is the Problem ...
