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The reality is, some things need to be socialized, and others not. The trick in a free society is to figure out which should, and which shou...

A redated post: The title of Sam Harris's book, "The End of Faith," suggests that somehow the life of unbelief is a life witho...

C. S. Lewis comes out as an Arminian.

This is a redated post, because apparently the dialogue is still going on. How eager ought we to be to set our standard of justice aside so ...

The command Be ye perfect is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He is going to make us into creatures that can ob...

There is an a way of arguing from Calvinism to atheism. If the Bible is true, we have no libertarian free will (based on Calvinist arguments...

Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite ...

He doesn't use the phrase, of course. “God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go either wrong or right. ...

•“We commit the ad hominem fallacy when we think that considerations about a person “refute” his or her assertions. Ad hominem is Latin for ...

The suggestion was made to me over at Triablogue that I somehow have to submit my moral intuitions to Scripture, and that the way to really ...

Gene M. Bridges: You've admitted in the past that you begin with your moral intuitions, not the Bible. It seems to me, you have the cart...

Steve Hays has responded to me on Triablogue, with his usual tone and his usual tendency to read into the text all sorts of things I didn...

One might ask, are people really moral if they are told that they will be rewarded in heaven for what they do? Wouldn't that be like off...

But let us bring the discussion back to the original intent of the post. My claim is that if you are a Calvinist, and you are trying to be b...

The information we have about what Jesus did comes from the Bible. The Bible has Jesus performing miracles and making statements that imply ...

The debate about Calvinism is hinges heavily, of course, on Scripture passages. To me, one of the most fundamental themes of Scripture is th...

Jonathan Swift penned this piece of satire centuries ago. We are God's chosen few ; All others will be damned. There is no place in heav...

I'd love to write a dialogue between Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, who rise from their graves in fury because of the Mormon church...

OK, let me make a clarification. Indeed, the phrase "author of sin" does really need clarification. This is one way of clarifying ...