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Some conclusions
In the last post in this series, I gave three basic propositions. 1) God is always perfectly rational. 2) In God’s image, humans are also rational. 3) Human rationality is limited both inherently and by the effects of the curse. If these propositions are accepted as true, some basic conclusions will follow. It is dangerous to abandon human rationality at any level. It is ironic that “blind faith” expressions of fundamentalism actually parallel post-modern forms
Three propositions on rationality
It’s been a while since the second post, but the more I’ve considered these things, the more I realise just how basic they are to everything we think and believe. The term for what we’re talking about is epistemology. Epistemology deals with the very nature and basis for knowledge. Since everything we think we know is built on some epistemological basis, we would be wise to at least understand what our own epistemological basis is.
A look at presuppositionalism
It's been a while since my last heavy post. This topic has been going through my head a lot over the last several weeks. Farid commented that “the big danger with taking faith over everything is that you'll believe really crazy things and you won't see the truth because blind faith is.... blinding!” For a classic (and somewhat disturbing) example, click here where you'll see a Fundamental, Independent Baptist scholar trying to prove that the
An introduction to evidentialism
Recently I've been studying something called evidentialism. I have to admit that I'm learning this from the ground up, but I thought I'd put what I'm learning here in order to help me sort out my thoughts. Also, some of you may be able to give me feedback that would be helpful in the development of my thinking on this. I'll start by defining evidentialism. "Evidentialism is a theory of justified belief according to which