divine foreknowledge God Is Love: Having a Loving Relationship with a Divine Automaton I've just done a YouTube video discussing this and it's an interesting one. I will use my claim here that God does not have free will. See my following pieces: God's Own Free Will God's Supposed Free Will: He Cannot Be Contrary
divine foreknowledge Noah's Flood Story Invalidates God's Omniscience I know it's a myth; it's obviously a myth. But go with it. As I am writing elsewhere: One of a number of Hebrew Bible stories that shows that God really doesn’t have omniscience is the Noah’s flood story. This never happened, that much
divine foreknowledge Heaven and Hell as a Hot Mess Check out the latest interview, this time with Gnostic Informant. We discuss the philosophy of heaven and hell, carrying on the conversation started with another video interview I did with MythVision (also below): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8AdHOGRbRI And the previous one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
Dave Armstrong The Uneven Evidence Debate: Responding to Paul Hoffer As I am sure you are aware by now, I have been embroiled in a debate with myself Dave Armstrong about the uneven apportioning of evidence to humanity over time and place. It moved more into the philosophical domain, so Armstrong invoked a comment from, one presumes, a more philosophical
Biblical Exegesis Doubting the Lessons from Doubting Thomas: Responding to Dave Armstrong Again I started off this debate the other day with a short piece about the unfairness of the distribution of evidence as exemplified by the Doubting Thomas episode in gJohn. Catholic Dave Armstrong replied, and I duly responded. I then finally found a comment in one of my threads, by Dave,
divine foreknowledge The Argument from Experiential Knowledge I love discussing all things OmniGod, that is the ramifications of a god that has omniscience, omnipotence and omnibenevolence. This God is the one of "classical theism". I have written a book compiling my musings on the matter (the reasonably priced ebook The Problem with "God"
classical theism God's Own Free Will I have written variously on this subject before but wanted to bring together two ideas: 1. God cannot have free will. 2. If he does, he could not have used it to create the world. Libertarian free will (as in the conscious and actual ability to choose otherwise in a
divine foreknowledge Not Seeing OmniGod through Philosophy and Logic: Satan, Heaven & Hell Introductory spiel: One of my more recent books, Not Seeing God: Atheism in the 21st Century (UK), has a plethora of gems in it for the reader and a smorgasbord of variety. It was a labour of love and was particularly rewarding due to the fact that so many great
creation God's Divine Foreknowledge, His Culpability and the Problem of Evil God’s divine foreknowledge has recently raised its interesting head over the last few comment threads and I thought it would be interesting to return to the subject again. I’ll start with a quote from a commenter here, found on their Miscellanea Agnostica blog: The [reconciliation of "the
determinism Divine Foreknowledge and Free Will So by knowing our actions, does God cause them to be? Depending on what you believe, yes and no, and here is the whole crux of the argument about whether we have free will or not in a religious context. There are a few ways in which it is claimed
divine foreknowledge Divine Foreknowledge, Time, Free Will and Thomism This is effectively a guest post by Ficino, commenter and sometimes contributor here at ATP. Massive thanks to him as I need as much help as I can get these days! I and Ficino have written about this topic previously, linked below. These were long comments that originally appeared at
divine foreknowledge God: The Sick Creation of Man I have posted this before, but the more I read it, the more like a poem it becomes, and the more powerful. It was not designed as a poem, but works well as one. It is written by a friend of mine who posts adverts in different places, including this
divine foreknowledge Arguing the Toss over OmniGod. Why I Do It. And How. I have been having a discussion with a commenter on a previous post concerning prayer in the light of an OmniGod (my preferred term for an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent god). As many of you who have followed my blog, my writings and books will know, I spend a lot of
creation Can An Old Atheist With A New, Short And Unassailable Case Be Heard? A friend of mine, who has a penchant for taking out poignant, atheistic ads to challenge believers, write this as an op-ed for the NYT. They didn't take it - perhaps being incendiary in nature - and I would like to take this opportunity to post it here.
determinism Sci Phi Show on free will and foreknowledge I am just about to listen to this but have not yet. H/T Skepticule podcast for this! Let me know what you think. It is the Sci Phi Show with a short episode Foreknowledge, Free Will and Cassandra. Here are the details of the show: On this episode of