Psalm 4:1 Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness; Thou hast set me at large when I was in distress: Have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
How can I know that you hear me, Lord, unless you answer my prayer and respond to my call? And this is [...]
I was thinking this morning about the issues with Descartes methodological doubt and his cogito, and I think the problem is even more drastic for him than I initially believed. Allow me to go through the process step by step.
Step 1 (the final move for Descartes): Utilizing an evil genius, all external world data [...]
I’ve been reading Descartes Meditations for class, and there seem to be two problems with his account.
The first one is merely a pet peeve of mine, and that is that I dislike methodological doubt. The reason for my dislike is that by uprooting doubt from any real world mooring, you lack the context to [...]
These discussions with Cogitan had me thinking while I was in church this morning, wondering what it was exactly that I was looking for in all of this intellectual flaying about. Obviously, I am looking for some way that I can know that God is out there, since my doubts about this are at [...]
I would encourage you to flesh out some of your foundational beliefs, and why those beliefs lead to rejection of Christianity and what reason you have for holding those foundational beliefs.
~Cogitans
I’ve been wondering how I could answer this challenge. Not that I want to refute it, I’m not looking for that. Rather, it [...]