Bob Ross

But how would that ontology work? How would we all be ontologically tied together when we don't even exist in the same time?

Natural theology is the application of reason, and Her Principles, to the natural world God created to determine God’s existence and nature. There’s n...

I don’t think it succeeds, because they don’t really divorce male and female as sex from as gender. They still refer to, e.g., female qua gender as wh...

I am inclined to agree, except wouldn’t it be juridical and not ontologically?

What implication did I make where the consequent is illegitimate connected to the antecedent?

Long time no see, Philosophim! I hope you are doing well. I know you are stipulating this definition for the sake of the OP, but it is worth mentionin...

CC: @"Janus", @"Colo Millz" It may help your conversation to note that virtual properties/distinctions are different than real properties/distinctions...

The concept of God argued in the OP is the classical theistic version of God; which is the metaphysical basis for the major “theims” in the West, such...

That is an unfeasible question to answer briefly: you are asking essentially for the entire historical development of my consciousness. I would say on...

I didn't create God, baker. You are confusing coming to understand something with creating something.

:up: I'll take a look.

I apologize for the incredibly belated response! I see what you are saying. The question arises: if God is not deploying a concept of group guilt, the...

How is the idea of a non-person deity consistent with the historical use of the term God? Doesn't it seem to radically redefine what one means by God ...

You would be a free agent in the sense of freedom for excellence if you cultivated the virtues, you have sufficient knowledge of what is good, and you...

Yes, but the goal is to explain the relevant data without multiplying entities without necessity; not come up with the simplest answer. A conscious be...

So, for Spinoza, God is all that exists and God is not a person? Is that the idea?

Sure, this is the portion of the argument that addresses omnipotence: (Strong Natural Theism, 1:E)

By analogical predication, I mean when one predicates a property of a thing by way of an analogy that is in no way meant to be taken as one and the sa...

I don’t see why someone cannot hold an individual guilt theory and hold that Original Sin is the causal consequence of the first fall. If my parents a...

:up:

Well, it’s one view: mine. I want people to discuss the ‘strong natural theism’ I came up with. Naturally, worldviews contain many underlying material...

I was speaking generically like a stereotypical Christian would about it. I would say stereotypical Christianity sees all legitimate copies of the Bib...

Got it: thank you for the elaboration. So Spinoza is an atheist IMHO: I remember now. God refers to a Divine Person historically: this Substance is no...

Yes, @"MoK" appears to be overlooking this distinction I have made and collapsing the discussion into ‘free will’. Keen point. My response would be th...

Why are they unconvincing to you? That’s a completely unjustified ad hominem and straw man. These arguments convinced me of Trinitarianism: I was not ...

That’s what the four proofs of God’s existence are setting after: reasons for believing in self-subsisting being and what it would be like (analogical...

Under this view, we cannot achieve repayment of our sins on our own; but God has to freely choose to save us by sacrificing Himself. Salvation here is...

A quantum vacuum is not absolutely simple. A 'part' in this essay is being defined as 'something which contributes but is not identical to the whole'.

It is a part of my thesis. I think providing an accurate depiction of goodness and, by proxy, morality is vital to any metaphysical theory; however, I...

I think that would pollute the forum with way to many posts.

Exactly what I did is demonstrate that we can, and I in fact have, determined various aspects of God’s nature and His creation without appeal nor indo...

God is subsistent being itself; which means that He exists before and independently of anything which depends on Him. Therefore, there is a separation...

Whether or not the idea of separation of church and state was primarily motivated by deism is a completely separate topic. However, it is clear that n...

I've read his Ethics and it seems to me like he believed in a form of deism; but, crucially, I don't see how it is incompatible with historical classi...

Can you elaborate on Spinoza's critiques of classical theism? I think God is Being itself; so perhaps Spinoza's "Substance" is another way of describi...

Not really, to be honest. I see God as being perfectly capable of intervening if He wants to. Can you elaborate?

@"Jamal" removed it but I worked it out with them so that this time they hopefully won't.

Atheism is the belief that there are no gods. It isn’t anti-theism in the sense you are referring: it is the thesis that theism is wrong. Likewise, re...

I disagree, as noted in my response before. Again, you thinking of liberty of indifference not liberty for excellence.

There’s no definition in your quote that you provided of yourself. What is your definition of murder? All you said is that it ‘must have a dead victim...

But I don’t think you accept that reductio. I’ll run a parody argument to demonstrate my point: 4. It is the Heinrich Himmler’s job to mass execute je...

But how is it inerrant if the author's are untrustworthy and give false information? Maybe it is Divinely Inspired that way, but, at a minimum, that d...

Yes, God is absolutely free and absolutely incapable of doing otherwise in my view. This is fundamentally because freedom for excellence, as opposed t...

Welcome to the forum, Paula :smile: . I am sorry to hear you have experienced what seems to be the worst aspects of organized religion. However, I wou...

I apologize: I was not understanding you before. I thought you were referring to demonic possession. Indeed, I agree that it is much more questionable...

Again, you are confusing identify relations with predication. When I say "The Son is God" I am not referring to something analogous to "S = G".

The semantic level is a linguistic expression of the syntactic level. My point is that if you reject the possible worlds theory, then you are rejectin...

} Logically, it would apply to any circumstance where an innocent person is directly intentionally killed. God is not exempt: you would have to redefi...

That eliminates mercy. God has to be both merciful and just at the same time.

I don’t, and this OP doesn’t suggest that. I am sympathetic to the NT though. Again, you are confusing God willing evil and doing evil. Persons in cre...