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Mar 30, 2018

Infinite Wisdom

Welcome to this week’s Friday Philosophy post! As promised, today we’ll be looking at another thinker from the Eleatic School of ancient Greek philosophy, a man named Zeno. This post naturally follows on from last Friday when we looked at the thought of Parmenides, as Zeno was a student of his. Who Was He? Zeno of… Continue reading

Ancient Greece, Philosophy

dialectic, faith, God, Good Friday, Greek philosophy, infinity, religion, science, The Eleatic school, Theology, Zeno, Zeno of Elea
Mar 16, 2018

Rivers of Change

Welcome to this week’s Friday Philosophy post. Over the last few weeks we’ve been looking at some of the most famous presocratic philosophers (that is, ancient Greek philosophers who lived prior to Socrates), and we will finish this mini-series of presocratic thinkers with Heraclitus, who lived between approximately 600-540 BC. Who Was He? Heraclitus was a… Continue reading

Ancient Greece, Philosophy

change, faith, God, Heraclitus, mathematics, Panentheism, presocratics, reality, science, Spirituality, Theology
Mar 15, 2018

The Free Will Problem

In last week’s Thursday Theology post (here) we looked at different theories of determinism. We saw that determinism is the idea that the past determines the future in a literal ’cause and effect’ way, so that theoretically, given the entirety of history and all the laws of physics, there is only one possible future in… Continue reading

Free Will, Philosophy, Theology

Christianity, compatibilism, determinism, faith, God, Islam, Judaism, libertarianism, Panentheism, religion, science
Mar 2, 2018

Reality as Numbers

In this week’s Friday Philosophy post we’re going to stay with the ancient Greeks and look at an idea by a man who we all know from mathematics lessons. Pythagoras of Samos lived around the mid-sixth century BC (we don’t know the exact dates) and like Thales who we looked at last week was a presocratic… Continue reading

Ancient Greece, Philosophy, Reality

Christianity, faith, God, mathematics, Nostradamus, numerology, presocratics, Pythagoras, religion, Theology
Jan 27, 2018

A Bit of Humour

I thought you might appreciate this recent comment from one of my readers which was posted during a discussion about God’s sovereignty and free will. This particular reader was responding to my insistence that God is in control of everything that happens. Appreciate your good and gracious spirit, Steven. I might opt to exercise my… Continue reading

Free Will

belief, Christianity, debate, faith, God, humour, Philosophy, religion, Spirituality, Theology
Jan 24, 2018

Is Jesus the Only Way?

Salvation is a matter we all must consider at some stage in our spiritual lives, and in this post I’d like to briefly present an alternative to the common Christian view that Jesus is the only way to have peace with God. During times when I have been immersed in Christian life and enthusiastically proclaiming… Continue reading

Christianity

An Almighty Predicament, faith, Free Will, God, Interfaith, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Philosophy, religion, Spirituality, Theology

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