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Job 5

Eliphaz continues to manifest an inflated ego. He is utterly certain his contentions are self-evident and that God could never do anything perplexing to humans. He advises Job to choose anyone he likes as judge, because they would say the … Continue reading

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Play a Logic Game

Want to play a game? It won’t be global thermonuclear war; we are likely to get that some other way. Let’s play a logic game, instead. It’s something you probably heard in your early secondary education years. Yeah, it’s juvenile, … Continue reading

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Job 4

As we dig into the comments of Job’s friends, we need to keep one thing in mind: They are passing judgment on Job’s words, as if a private complaint among friends is tantamount to defaming God. Meanwhile, they ignore his … Continue reading

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Repost: Aristotle Defeats Aristotle (Long)

(Reposted, with some minor editing, from another blog which no longer exists.) We can use Aristotle’s own logic to show how it is incompatible to Christian faith. The fundamental question here is bound up in that fancy word, “epistemology.” You … Continue reading

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Tell Me God Does Not Exist

Depending on how you define the terms of the debate, I might agree with the statement “God does not exist.” If your entire approach is Aristotelian (included as an element in Enlightenment, Post-Modernism and just about the entire basis of … Continue reading

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Logic: Racism

Discussions of racism typically avoid any form of logic. Therefore, I could not be less concerned about someone labeling me “racist” — it means only they don’t like what I’m saying, and can’t think of a good excuse for arguing. … Continue reading

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