Bam: Logic
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Sages and Logic and Divinity Complex and Logic and Stop My Brain Hurts
Well... For school I had to read an excerpt from a book titled Between Heaven and Hell by Peter Kreeft. The premise is simple enough, Kreeft is proving Jesus is God using logic (and C.S. Lewis, Kennedy, and Huxley) to do it.
The three men I mentioned are caught in limbo (in between heaven and hell) and have a lively discussion (or debate) Kennedy (who's a catholic) makes a point that Jesus was a good moral teacher but not the Son of God. Lewis refutes with simple connect the dot's logic
Simple right? Jesus can only be 4 things, he can be the Son of God, or he can be a raving lunatic (the Divinity Complex) or he is just a bad man, or he is a good man. The only logical one he cannot be is the 4th, and if you think he is the 2nd or 3rd you are not a Christian. The reason he was not the 2nd or 3rd is that he is someone considered a Sage. What the Sages were, were men who had spiritual insight or wisdom into the human heart or character. They were considered the wisest and best men who ever lived. Examples are: Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Moses, Socrates, etc. Everybody can be summed up into 4 classes of people. The normal men: the average Joe, The Sages: see above, The normal men who claimed to be God: AKA lunatics, and The Sages who claimed to be God: Jesus. It's easy to see that the bad men and lunatics are all on the normal people side, whereas the Sages were the holy or wise ones. This makes Jesus a good man and a sane one. Therefore: if Jesus existed, he must be the Son of God, and we already have records and things of Jesus existing :)
Bam: Logic
Bam: Logic
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Eat, Drink, and Be Merry, For Tomorrow You Die
Life is strange, to be able to think and feel, to run and act, why can we do this? A technical definition by Google is: "the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic
matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional
activity, and continual change preceding death." However this definition includes animals and plants, and I'm only talking about humans, or sentient life. Sentient just means: "Able to perceive or feel things." Because humans can think for themselves we have obviously raised questions. What are we doing here? Why? Are we super products from evolution? Is there an extraterrestrial being who made us? Just about every single answer that could exist has been spoken, but there are 4 basic forms of the answer to this question.
1. Man has no control over his fate, because it is controlled by the universe.
2. Man has complete control over his fate, because he controls the universe.
3. Man's fate is determined by chance.
4. Man is created by God with a purpose.
Answer 1. This is one of the most socially accepted answer today, used by some evolutionists and relativists. They believe that our fate is determined by evolution and natural occurrences in the universe. However, man has a free will, we can think and act on our own power. This in itself changes our fate, if only slightly.
Answer 2. This one was more popular back in the Greek and Roman times. Although they believed in gods, They believed that man controlled his fate while the gods watched on. However if man controlled fate, why isn't it screwed up by now? Man makes mistakes, if man was in control, the world would be a wreck. (now, there are arguments that it is in a wreck, but illogical wreck, the world is in a logical wreck)
Answer 3. This one is used by the majority of evolutionists and relativists. There is no fate or God or destiny, only random chance. However if life was left up to random chance, how can we be here? The odds of you sitting in front of your screen reading this by random chance (true random chance, not that I have a low SEO.....) is so astronomically low that it simply couldn't happen. You can't leave such a delicate thing as a human life up to chance, Evolution is a stretch, but at least it's better than chance.
Answer 4: This one is used by those who follow religion, and to me, the only logical one. How can you have a universe so large it blows our minds to think about it, and a cell so small and detailed that each can support itself without a God? Chance cannot come up with life, nor can evolution or the universe. Life is a creative force, needing care and a designer.
Now, lets clear some things up here. I do believe in God, but that still doesn't answer the question to is man completely free? Does man have a free will, or does God lead him on like a horse? My answer is that man has free will, you can lift your finger, you can turn right instead of left, that's free will. By your will you turned right, it wasn't destiny or chance. Now, that example seems to not be that large of an action, or so small that destiny wouldn't care if you turned right or left. But when you look at the majesty of life, no action is too small, everything that you can do is a miracle.
Until Next Time,
Conner
1. Man has no control over his fate, because it is controlled by the universe.
2. Man has complete control over his fate, because he controls the universe.
3. Man's fate is determined by chance.
4. Man is created by God with a purpose.
Answer 1. This is one of the most socially accepted answer today, used by some evolutionists and relativists. They believe that our fate is determined by evolution and natural occurrences in the universe. However, man has a free will, we can think and act on our own power. This in itself changes our fate, if only slightly.
Answer 2. This one was more popular back in the Greek and Roman times. Although they believed in gods, They believed that man controlled his fate while the gods watched on. However if man controlled fate, why isn't it screwed up by now? Man makes mistakes, if man was in control, the world would be a wreck. (now, there are arguments that it is in a wreck, but illogical wreck, the world is in a logical wreck)
Answer 3. This one is used by the majority of evolutionists and relativists. There is no fate or God or destiny, only random chance. However if life was left up to random chance, how can we be here? The odds of you sitting in front of your screen reading this by random chance (true random chance, not that I have a low SEO.....) is so astronomically low that it simply couldn't happen. You can't leave such a delicate thing as a human life up to chance, Evolution is a stretch, but at least it's better than chance.
Answer 4: This one is used by those who follow religion, and to me, the only logical one. How can you have a universe so large it blows our minds to think about it, and a cell so small and detailed that each can support itself without a God? Chance cannot come up with life, nor can evolution or the universe. Life is a creative force, needing care and a designer.
Now, lets clear some things up here. I do believe in God, but that still doesn't answer the question to is man completely free? Does man have a free will, or does God lead him on like a horse? My answer is that man has free will, you can lift your finger, you can turn right instead of left, that's free will. By your will you turned right, it wasn't destiny or chance. Now, that example seems to not be that large of an action, or so small that destiny wouldn't care if you turned right or left. But when you look at the majesty of life, no action is too small, everything that you can do is a miracle.
Until Next Time,
Conner
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