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The Free Flowing Knowledge of Religion
I can’t help but wonder whats more foolish? Rejecting a religion after its holy book, Or rejecting all other religions after reading just one holy book? The reason I ask this rhetorical question, because we are guilty of this mindset … Continue reading
Posted in atheism, belief, christian, christian history, debate, Free-Thought, freethinker, history, life, Musings for Life, Philosophy for Life, reason, reasonable evidence, religion
Tagged Agnosticism, atheism, Christian theology, Christianity, freethinker, freethought, quotable quotes, quotes, reasonable evidence, reasoning, skepticism
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Dear Zubin (Part II)
The First part of this post can be found here. I didn’t understand why Zubin did not want a relationship with God. Who wouldn’t want a relationship with Jesus? Who wouldn’t want a deeper understanding of God? Who wouldn’t want … Continue reading
Posted in character, christ, christian, emotions, god, jesus, jesus the christ, life, love, purpose, reason, reasoning, Salvation
Tagged Christ, christian, Christianity, Daniel Everett, de-conversion, Evangelism, friendship, God, jesus, life, mindset, reason, reasoning, Religion and Spirituality
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Is God Eternal? Is God Transcendent?
A while back I did a post on God being Infinite and the many contradictory problems with calling God infinite. And when doing that post, in the comments section the post turned to issue of God being Eternal. So I … Continue reading
Posted in apologetics, atheist vs christian, attributes, attributes of God, character, christian, contradiction, cumulative case, debate, Free-Thought, god, ontology, purpose, reasoning, Response
Tagged christian reasoning, Christianity, epistemology, eternal, everlasting, free will, freethought, God, God's attributes, Immanence, immanent, infinite, kalam Cosmological argument, logical contradiction, ontological, perfect, Perfect God, Perfection, philosophy, proof by contradiction, reasoning, Richard Swinburne, timeless, transcendent
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A Collection of Failed and Discrepant Bible Prophecy
Personally, I am not an expert in Bible prophecy nor I am studied in this topic. So what I decided to do was put together a collection of failed biblical prophecy and general articles on failed biblical prophecy. Just a quick note for the reader; this is dealing specifically with predictions and prophecies … Continue reading
Posted in bible, bible contradictions, bible study, biblical difficulties, christ, christian faith, christian fraud, christian history, early christian history, fraud, inspiration, jesus, jesus the christ, jesus the messiah, messiah, miracle, occam's razor, prophecy, religion, Response, scriptural difficulties, skepticism
Tagged bible, bible difficulties, Bible prophecy, c.s. lewis, Christ, christian, christian doubt, christian history, Christianity, doubt, faith, jesus, judaism, Judeo-Christian, reasonable faith, reasoning, scriptural difficulties
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Religion vs. Science: How they are fundamentally incompatible?
This is the last post in my Religion vs Science Series. Different Worldviews of Faith and Science I would definitely say that a christian/religious worldview contradicts that of a scientific world view. For in a religious worldview morality, faith, God, … Continue reading
Posted in bible, character, christian, christian faith, contradiction, cumulative case, debate, deductive reasoning, faith, Free-Thought, freedom, freethinker, god, life, logic, occam's razor, purpose, quote, read your bible, reason, reasonable evidence, reasoning, religion, religion vs. science, skeptic, skepticism, theology, youtube
Tagged bible, bible contradictions, biblical Christianity, christian, Christian faith, Christianity, David Kinnaman, deductive reasoning, epistemology, faith, freethought, inductive reasoning, life, logic, logic of life, logical contradiction, reasonable faith, reasoning, religion, robert Ingersoll, science, Science and Religion, Thought, Unfaith, World view
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Religion vs. Science: The Thinking of Evidence vs. Faith
For really where they contradict is in the thinking of evidence and faith and how it applies to daily worldviews. That you can live in a world where faith and religion don’t contradict, but you have to separate the domain … Continue reading
Posted in apologetics, belief, christian history, evolution vs. creation, fallacious, fallacious reasoning, Free-Thought, freethinker, history, inductive reasoning, Intelligent Design, logic, probability of God, reasonable evidence, reasoning, religion, religion vs. science, scientist, skeptic, skepticism
Tagged biblical intelligibility, christian history, christian reasoning, Christianity, community, does god exist?, fallacious reasoning, Fallacy, freethought, God, god of the gaps, inductive reasoning, Intelligent Design, logic, logic of life, logical fallacy, mindset, reasonable evidence, reasonable faith, reasoning, religion, science, Science and Religion, Victor Stenger
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Being in a Mixed marriage Christian-Atheist, the issues that come up, and overcoming the issues of dogma
One of the common struggles of a newly de-converted believer is his/her relationship with their believing spouse. So I asked Limey from the Confessions of a Y.E.C. Blog to give a little of his background, experiences, and advise for one … Continue reading
Posted in atheist, atheist vs christian, christian, church, creation, creationism, debate, doubt, doubt faith, emotions, evolution vs. creation, freedom, guest post, history, life, love, marriage, reason, religion, religion vs. science, skeptic, skepticism, The Thinking Atheist, unbelief
Tagged Atheist, belief, christian, christian doubt, Christian faith, Christianity, Church, creation, Creationism, de-conversion, freethought, life, logic of life, Marriage, mindset, reasoning, religion, Religion and Spirituality, skeptic, truth, unbelief
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An infinite God and his limitations
How could an infinite God take on limitations? Could God still be infinite if he is limited? Well before we tackle this question, let’s define the topic as according to some traditional apologetics. “The infinite nature of God simply means … Continue reading
Posted in atheist vs christian, attributes, attributes of God, biblical difficulties, character, christian fraud, Common Sense, confusion, contradiction, freethinker, god, infinite, logic, skeptic, skepticism, theology
Tagged apologetics, atheism, bible difficulties, christian apologetics, Christianity, deductive reasoning, does god exist?, God, God Test, God's attributes, Infinity, Judeo-Christian, logic, ontological, ontological argument, Perfect God, reality, reasoning, The thinker, the thinking atheist
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Reasoning with Faith, Religion, and Atheism…The Final Thought of Reason (Part 9)
Go to Main Menu or Start at the Introductory Page The Final Thought of Reason “Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.”-Hannah Arendt quotes
Posted in faith, philosophy, reasoning, systematic theology, theology, youtube
Tagged Guillermo Hansen, Hannah Arendt, logic, philosophy, reasoning, religion, The thinker, theology
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Reasoning with Faith, Religion, and Atheism…Inductive Reasoning vs. Deductive Reasoning (Part 8)
Go to Main Menu or Start at the Introductory Page Inductive Reasoning Vs. Deductive Reasoning Logic, Reasoning, and Rationality are the entire basis for our thought process. It is where we rightly divide our epistemology for knowledge & truth. It … Continue reading
Reasoning with Faith, Religion, and Atheism…Deductive Reasoning (Part 7)
Go to Main Menu or Start at the Introductory Page Deductive Reasoning Deductive Reasoning is a subdivision of logic and critical thinking and a form of reasoning in which a conclusion follows logically from the stated premises or proposition. Deduction is also a … Continue reading
Posted in apologist, best apologist, carm, christ, christian faith, Cosmological, creation, deductive reasoning, Dr. William Lane Craig, god, human nature, laws of logic, logic, messiah, reasoning, religion vs. science, youtube
Tagged Cosmological argument, deductive argument, deductive reasoning, kalam Cosmological argument, logic, reasoning, William Lane Craig
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Reasoning with Faith, Religion, and Atheism…Abductive Reasoning (Part 5)
Go to Main Menu or Start at the Introductory Page Abductive Reasoning I think the majority approach to most of the bible difficulties I have come across is using abductive reasoning to conclude a solution to the scriptural difficulty, if an answer exist. So I guess the … Continue reading
Posted in apologist, bible, christian faith, deductive reasoning, god, inductive reasoning, reason, reasoning
Tagged abductive reasoning, c.s. lewis, christian reasoning, reasoning
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Reasoning with Faith, Religion, and Atheism…Analogical Reasoning (Part 3)
Go to Main Menu or Start at the Introductory Page Analogical Reasoning Analogical reasoning is a method of processing information that compares the similarities between new & understood thoughts, and then uses those similarities to gain understanding of the new … Continue reading
Reasoning with Faith, Religion, and Atheism…Circular Reasoning (Part 2)
Go to Main Menu or Start at the Introductory Page Circular Reasoning To most circular reasoning is more of a logical fallacy than a valid argument. This is assumed so because circular reasoning resembles that of the Begging the Question Fallacy. The … Continue reading
Posted in apologetic, apologist, atheist vs christian, bible, christian faith, god, infalliable, reasoning
Tagged Atheist, begging the question, christian, Christianity, circular reasoning, logic, reasoning
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Reasoning with Faith, Religion, and Atheism…Introduction to Reasoning (Part 1)
Introduction to Reasoning TABLE of CONTENTS for Reasoning with Faith, Religion, and Atheism Part 1.- Introduction to Reasoning and Fallacious Reasoning Part 2.- Circular Reasoning Part 3.- Analogical Reasoning Part 4.- Reductive Reasoning Part 5.- Abductive Reasoning Part 6.- Inductive … Continue reading
Posted in confusion, deceived, deductive reasoning, fallacious, fallacious reasoning, inductive reasoning, laws of logic, logic, reason, reasoning
Tagged abductive reasoning, analogical reasoning, circular reasoning, deductive reasoning, fallacious reasoning, inductive reasoning, reason, reasoning, reductive reasoning
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