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Saturday, February 22, 2025

I May Be Wrong, But I'm Sincere

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If you believe in a God that doesn't exist, does this make you a theist or an atheist? After all, there's only one God, so who or wh...
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Friday, February 21, 2025

California Personalism and God as First Among Equals

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 Yes, it was once  a thing , and no, it does not involve Hugh Hefner: George Holmes Howison   taught a metaphysical theory called   Californ...
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Thursday, February 20, 2025

Does God Play Dice and Other Games of Chance?

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If God cannot be conceptualized, why conceptualize him as immutable? According to the analogy of being, any similarity we posit between crea...
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Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Was the Incarnation a Risk?

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You asking me? That's a bit above my praygrade, but I've always wondered what's the point if it was all predetermined from etern...
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Tuesday, February 18, 2025

The Risky Isness of Creation

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There are two kinds of meaninglessness: disorder at one end, excessive order at the other; or, randomness and determinism, respectively.  No...
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Monday, February 17, 2025

Kafkaesque Theism

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There are many reasons to believe in open theism, but perhaps the most important is that without it I am screwed.  For one thing, if everyth...
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Sunday, February 16, 2025

Atonement: Ours and God's

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Went to bed last night and woke up this morning thinking about the logic of religious sacrifice. This is because I was reading about the sub...
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Saturday, February 15, 2025

Reality is an Open Relationship

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We've been discussing a mysterious principle of openness that not only permeates being but may in a sense be being; or at least being i...
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Friday, February 14, 2025

How to Think About God

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What a condescending title. It reminds me of those patronizing emails I receive from the NY Times, telling me how I should think about every...
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Thursday, February 13, 2025

Glimpses of Infinitude

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Like anyone, I get the occasional glimpse of the total inexplicability and utter gratuity of being, but the window no sooner opens than shut...
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