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A Visual Apologia
Joy in Submission'
Painting of Jesus Washing Peter’s Feet by Ford Madox Brown
“Some things are so important”, wrote Søren Kierkegaard, “that they cannot be communicated directly.” Joy in submission is one of those things. How would Kierkegaard attempt to indirectly explain this issue? I do not know. But I am willing to attempt an impossible task of thinking in Kierkegaardian manner as I address how serving is…
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Bonhoeffer's Solution to The Problem of Pain
Bonhoeffer’s Solution to The Problem of Pain
Dietrich Bonhoeffer saw and experienced the unmistakable face of pain and suffering during the reign of Nazism in Germany. During his time at Berlin-Tegel Bonhoeffer exchanged letters and wrote notes that are now known as Letters and Papers from Prison. It is in these letters and notes Bonhoeffer explored the problem of pain and suffering. His address of human suffering does not flow from a…
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Malignant Demon, Atheism and Search For Truth
Malignant Demon, Atheism and Search For Truth
“Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkey’s mind,” rhetorically asked Charles Darwin, “if there are any convictions in such a mind?” (Darwin 1881) In Darwin’s July 3rd 1881 letter to William Graham, we encounter a problem of epistemological uncertainty of our cognitive faculties. Darwin believed that Graham had accurately portrayed his conviction that “the Universe [was] not the result…
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Kierkegaard: Subjectivity is Truth
Kierkegaard: Subjectivity is Truth
“The subjective thinker is not a man of science, but an artist. Existing is an art. The subjective thinker is aesthetic enough to give his life aesthetic content, ethical enough to regulate it, and dialectical enough to penetrate it with thought.”(1974, 314)
“What is truth?” asked Pontius Pilate. “Subjectivity is truth,”(1987, 203) answered Søren Kierkegaard. For so long I misunderstood…
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5 Top Articles That Spoke 2014
5 Top Articles That Spoke 2014
“One day I will find the right words,” wrote Jack Kerouac, “and they will be simple.” These 5 articles captured the days which I found almost the right words to express my thoughts. Unlike Kerouac, my thoughts are nothing but simple. Whether you agreed with me or not, it is my hope that I awoke the hunger to explore these wonderful issues in theology, philosophy and ethics.
A Major Divergence: Is…
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A Major Divergence: Is Genesis 1 Creatio Ex Nihilo?
A Major Divergence: Is Genesis 1 Creatio Ex Nihilo?
“This is a real creation,” wrote David Hume, “a production of something out of nothing; which implies a power so great that it may seem at first sight beyond the reach of any being less than infinite.”(Hume 1881:343-4) Hume captured our modern and classical understanding of creation. Coming into being, in our modern understanding, means acquiring material (or immaterial) properties. We…
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The Nietzschean Sinner
The Sinner, in my re-modification of Nietzschean Parable of the Madman*, ran up to the place called Golgotha, and cried incessantly: “I seek Life! I seek Life!” As many of those who did not believe in the accuracy of a mocking but ironically true description, ‘This is Jesus the King of the Jews’, placed above the head of a Nazarene hanged on the Roman cross, laughed at the insanity of the…
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Kordig’s Deontic Dialogue For God’s Existence
Kordig’s Deontic Dialogue For God’s Existence
Jane: John, are you familiar with Carl R. Kordig’s deontic argument for God’s existence?
John: No. I am not. Would you be kind to explain it to me?
Jane: Kordig argued that a deontically perfect being ought to exist. If deontically perfect being ought to exist, then such being can exist. A deontically perfect being cannot be a contingent being. Therefore, a deontically perfect being must exist.
J…
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Cosmological Dialogue Concerning God’s Existence
Cosmological Dialogue Concerning God’s Existence
Jane: Leibniz stated that “[w]hatever is not from something else is from itself, or from its own essence.” [1]Would you agree with the axiom that everything that exists has an explanation of its existence either in the necessity of its own nature or in an external cause?
John: Yes, given the Principle of Sufficient Reason, I would agree with that axiom.
Jane: Would you also agree that if the…
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Explosive Joy & Divine Romance
Explosive Joy & Divine Romance
Peace and salvation, Yahweh is King (Isa. 52:7-8). This was and is a victorious proclamation that Yahweh’s kingdom has come on earth as it is in heaven. The God of Israel has return to His people. Here comes the inauguration of the eschatological era. It is the dawn of the new creation. The time of restoration of the fallen world has come. “Behold, your God”, proclaims those who herald this evang…
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What is Wrong with Abortion?
What is Wrong with Abortion?
Is it immoral to deliberately end the life of a fetus? This is a philosophical question that tackles the ethics of abortion. This philosophical question demands philosophical answer(s). Before I attempt to answer this question, another basic question that is behind this question must also be answered; what exactly makes it immoral to kill one of us in some occasions? From such explorations I…
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Dialogue Concerning God's Existence
Dialogue Concerning God’s Existence
Jane: What is red? John: It is a concept. Jane: What are concepts? John: They are the constituents of complete thoughts. Jane: If concepts are constituents of complete thoughts, where do they exist? John: They exist in our minds, of cause. Jane: Are there eternal concepts? John: What do you mean by eternal concepts? Jane: I mean concepts that are independent on our minds for their existence? John:Do you…
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Armchair Proof of Existence of God
Armchair Proof of Existence of God
Does a being that is God1 exist? Before we can disagree on whether or not a being that is God exists, we need to agree on what a being that is God is. There cannot be any disagreement unless there is an agreement on what is that is disputed.
What is the being that is God? A being that is God is a being that there could not be other than that which nothing greater nor equal could be conceived2.…
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Naturalness of Theism
I believe you have a mind of your own. I believe a bottle of water can only spinning in one direction at any give time. I believe a bottle of water cannot be full and empty at the same time. I believe that an unsupported bottle of water falls. These beliefs I hold implicitly without cognitive reflection. These beliefs spontaneously develop without special cultural indoctrination. They are…
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Review: Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch
Review: Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch
We often and unconsciously read our contemporary understanding of words, terms or ideas and not the other way around into the Pentateuch. Who is to blame? The past is a foreign territory. Ancient Near Eastern cognitive environment of the patriarchal period overwhelmingly finds its location outside our contemporary mindset.
Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch (2002), edited by T. Desmond…
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The Marriage Debate: Discussing the Important Issues
The Marriage Debate: Discussing the Important Issues
In the currently raging debate on homosexuality, there is a lot of spilled ink and emotional strife from multiple sides of the fence that are engaging these important issues. I say “multiple” because I do not think the issue is reducible to merely the Left and the Right, the Revisionists and the Progressives, or what have you. Quite frankly, the Right is disagreeing with the Right and the Left is…
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