A response to Glenn Peoples’s ‘No, I am not an inerrantist’
Posted on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 under polemics • 8 comments • read it ⇒A response to Glenn Peoples’ article of June 1, in which he critiques the doctrine of biblical inerrancy and finds it wanting.
“No one is righteous”…metaphorically speaking
Posted on Monday, November 9, 2009 under polemics • no comments • read it ⇒A polemic against the argument that, in light of the apparently contradicting evidence of our moral intuitions, total depravity should be interpreted metaphorically.
Everything you perceive is unreliable
Posted on Friday, May 15, 2009 under polemics • 4 comments • read it ⇒A brief, critical response to the Scripturalist claim that sense perception is unreliable, and/or does not produce knowledge. This article refutes Vincent Cheung’s argument that John 12:27–30 constitutes “an inspired example against empiricism.” It does not deal with the question of epistemic justification; merely with the biblical view of sense experience, and the problems inherent in Vincent’s own position.
On dogmatism
Posted on Friday, April 17, 2009 under polemics • no comments • read it ⇒A response to Damian Peterson on the merits of being dogmatic.
The purpose of regeneration revisited
Posted on Monday, March 23, 2009 under polemics • 1 comment • read it ⇒Was I mistaken about the purpose of regeneration? A response to Ben at Arminian Perspectives, defending my position and refuting his objections.
Whence Cometh Value?
Posted on Monday, December 15, 2008 under polemics • 2 comments • read it ⇒An argument undercutting non-theistic attempts to defend their value systems, by demonstrating that value itself is incoherent in a universe without God.
Occam’s Razor
Posted on Monday, October 6, 2008 under polemics • 11 comments • read it ⇒A discussion of how Occam’s Razor is sometimes used as a basis for objecting to Christianity, highlighting some serious philosophical problems with this approach.