(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) Theism is belief in the existence of God. But what is God? While the world’s religions have a variety of ideas about God, almost everyone agrees on certain aspects of his fundamental nature. Most would say that God is above and beyond the universe, for he brought the universe into existence. […]
Monthly Archives: August 2021
When You Said, “The COVID Vaccines Aren’t FDA-Approved!” …
(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) Today, the Pfizer vaccine received official FDA-Approved status. Some who have decided to not get vaccinated have pointed to the fact that the vaccines are not FDA-approved. If you are someone who offered this as a reason for not getting vaccinated, I especially hope that you will consider what I have […]
The Book of Jeremiah is a Montage
(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) My last post dealt with Jeremiah 3:6-7. There is something important we can learn from verse 6 that I didn’t comment on. Hence, this post. Here is the verse: 3:6 And Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, “Do you♂ see what she did? Turncoat – Israel – she went […]
Yahweh’s Disappointed Expectation in Jeremiah 3
(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) Recently, I was writing more of Are You Minding What Matters? – specifically, I was writing a section dealing with theological possibility-denial; that is, theological views that amount to a denial that genuine possibility exists. The two views I wrote on are predestination and exhaustive, infallible divine foreknowledge. In Are You […]
Material Reality as the Basis for Morality
(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) This is a continuation of Are You Minding What Matters? (see the previous post): ~~~~~~~~~~ Material Reality as the Basis for Morality As you can see, the popular theories fail to provide a sound basis for morality. If we want a guide for making moral decisions, we have to look elsewhere. […]
Theories of the Basis of Morality
(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) Here is the next part of Are You Minding What Matters?. This isn’t all of Lesson Two, just the part dealing with the popular theories regarding the basis of morality. Lesson Two: The Reality of Morality While most would grant that some questions have their answers in the material world, it is […]
Materialism or Immaterialism?
(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) I’ve been working on an article called Are You Minding What Matters? for several months now. I haven’t posted any of it on the site yet, but I figured I’d do so now. The article is composed of several “lessons” the first of which is regarding the nature of reality. Here it is: […]
Genesis 1:1 – In What Beginning?!
(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” King James Version of Genesis 1:1 Is this the best way to translate the opening clause of Genesis? It’s certainly how the vast majority of English translations have done it since Wycliffe’s translation back in the 14th century. But, of course, […]
Vaccines (Including COVID Vaccines) Are Safe And Effective
(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) I understand being anti-vax. The reason is that I used to be anti-vax myself. And I maintained that view for a number of years. Eventually, though, I had to come to terms with the fact that my reasons were not based on demonstrable knowledge about vaccines or the diseases they were […]