Blog
What about the beatific vision?
When you ask someone to describe their view of heaven you get a descriptive look at what the person thinks is good. “Heaven” is whatever the person thinks is good in this life plus more and without hindrances or suffering. So what is good? If we are wrong about what is good then we [...]
What about faith?
But what about faith? If it is clear that God exists that leaves no room for faith, right? We need to take a moment to figure out what “faith” means. There are a few different meanings going around that can confuse this question. When “faith” is contrasted with knowledge it means believing when you [...]
At least they believed in God, right?
I remember hearing a famous Christian philosopher give an argument to show that the material world had a beginning and then finish by saying “and that is how we prove God exists.” But his debating partner was not a philosophical materialist. He was a Platonist. And Platonists believe in God. Right? Or at least they got close enough with [...]
What about me?
Our posts have been about what to expect from the conference, how to be prepared, and the kinds of topics we will be discussing. These center around knowing God. We know God from the works of God. That starts by knowing that only God has existed from eternity. All other things were brought into [...]
The eternal power of God
The first question in the study of metaphysics is: what is eternal? What has existed from eternity? What has no beginning? We can even categorize the various world systems in terms of what they say is eternal. This helps make sense of how each system understands reality, value, and authority. There are those that say nothing is eternal. [...]
By Faith We Understand
In Hebrews 11 we are given a whole chapter about faith. Hebrews 11: 1 we are told that faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. The modern world has made a conflict between reason and faith. But here we see that the distinction is between the seen and the unseen. Faith [...]