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Philochristos: September 2005
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I decided to give this blog a shorter name. "Primitive thoughts of a Christian philosopher" was just too long. See the first post in January 2005 for my purpose in starting this blog. Friday, September 30, 2005. Posted by Sam Harper @ 6:14 AM. Thursday, September 29, 2005. Billy: Belief in God focuses on faith. Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of thing not seen. (Hebrew 11:1). Posted by Sam Harper @ 5:56 AM. Wednesday, September 28, 2005. When arguments go awry. It's interestin...
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Philochristos: April 2005
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I decided to give this blog a shorter name. "Primitive thoughts of a Christian philosopher" was just too long. See the first post in January 2005 for my purpose in starting this blog. Friday, April 29, 2005. Is it irrational to believe something because somebody said so? Several years ago, I decided it was time for me to educate myself on the whole issue of evolution and creationism. The first book I read was Vital Dust. That’s inconsistent. If they think it’s irrational to take things on authority, ...
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Philochristos: Does libertarian freedom entail the ability to do good or evil?
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I decided to give this blog a shorter name. "Primitive thoughts of a Christian philosopher" was just too long. See the first post in January 2005 for my purpose in starting this blog. Thursday, June 04, 2015. Does libertarian freedom entail the ability to do good or evil? Posted by Sam Harper @ 4:50 PM. At 4/13/2016 1:51 PM. Great post, and I think youre right about the inability of multiple good options to maintain libertarian freedom in the face of the inability to choose evil. Im trying to lose weight...
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Philochristos: February 2005
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I decided to give this blog a shorter name. "Primitive thoughts of a Christian philosopher" was just too long. See the first post in January 2005 for my purpose in starting this blog. Monday, February 28, 2005. Biblical arguments for the Trinity, part 4. 5 The Father is not the Son. 6 The Son is not the Holy Spirit. 7 The Holy Spirit is not the Father. I'm going to take all three of these at the same time. This step is important, because it prevents us from being modalists. 5 The Father is not the Son.
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Philochristos: Was Dionysus born of a virgin?
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I decided to give this blog a shorter name. "Primitive thoughts of a Christian philosopher" was just too long. See the first post in January 2005 for my purpose in starting this blog. Monday, June 22, 2015. Was Dionysus born of a virgin? I recently had a dialogue with a fellow on debate.org (hereinafter DDO). Through googling around, I discovered that the fellow on DDO had cut and paste from an an article by D.M. Murdock/Acharya S. That was written by James Hunter. It says:. It appears under two subtitle...
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Philochristos: Enough with the snarkiness!
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I decided to give this blog a shorter name. "Primitive thoughts of a Christian philosopher" was just too long. See the first post in January 2005 for my purpose in starting this blog. Monday, February 16, 2015. Enough with the snarkiness! Atheists weren't just being abrasive because they were immature or because they let their emotions control them. Even some of the very well-educated and well-respected atheists, like Richard Dawkins, were actually encouraging people to use ridicule. Do we have a priori ...
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Philochristos: March 2005
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I decided to give this blog a shorter name. "Primitive thoughts of a Christian philosopher" was just too long. See the first post in January 2005 for my purpose in starting this blog. Thursday, March 31, 2005. The unenlightened Bodhisattva of Mahayana Buddhism. Posted by Sam Harper @ 6:17 AM. The irrationality of Buddhism. He has continually pushed his irrational anti-logic, anti-science, anti-reason point of view every semester I've had him. Posted by Sam Harper @ 5:42 AM. Buddhism and the denial of self.
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Philochristos: Is it a sin to be gay?
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I decided to give this blog a shorter name. "Primitive thoughts of a Christian philosopher" was just too long. See the first post in January 2005 for my purpose in starting this blog. Thursday, January 08, 2015. Is it a sin to be gay? Of course some people might object that since they can't change their desires, they can't be held accountable for them. But isn't the whole point of the gospel that we are dead in sins, unable to repent, and that it is only by the grace of God that we can be saved? Not one ...
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Philochristos: Gender and sex
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I decided to give this blog a shorter name. "Primitive thoughts of a Christian philosopher" was just too long. See the first post in January 2005 for my purpose in starting this blog. Tuesday, September 23, 2014. I just looked up " transgendered. On wikipedia while writing this, and according to that article, the first time somebody suggested that gender had to do with how one identifies themselves was in 1979. That's farther back than I expected. But I wonder if this new use of the term has real...I won...
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Philochristos: June 2005
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I decided to give this blog a shorter name. "Primitive thoughts of a Christian philosopher" was just too long. See the first post in January 2005 for my purpose in starting this blog. Thursday, June 30, 2005. Conversations with Angie: Some weakness in the free will theodicy. There are some theists who will try to make the free will theodicy account for natural evil. They do it by appealing to the butterfly effect. Do you know what that is? Conversations with Angie: Angie on evil and freedom. 1 God is good.