“Science is a particular way about knowing the world. In science, explanations are limited to those based on observations and experiments that can be substantiated by other scientists. Explanations that cannot be based on empirical evidence are not part of science.” – National Academy of Sciences The irony is that this means science cannot define [...]

The portion will build off of the last, so we will be a bit briefer in our responses. But it will be as equally valuable in exposing the deep logical and theological problems of Molinism. “It is fallacious to infer that x will necessarily happen. It just will happen. It is entirely possible that x [...]

Wayne Grudem (1948-) Another helpful distinction applied to different aspects of God’s will is the distinction between God’s secret will and his revealed will. Even in our own experience we know that we are able to will some things secretly and then only later make this will known to others. Sometimes we tell others before [...]

There is no such thing as a separate natural theology that could be obtained apart from any revelation solely on the basis of reflective considerations of the universe. The knowledge of God that is gathered up in so-called natural theology is not the product of human reason. Rather, natural theology presupposes, first of all, that [...]

For if the history of the world clearly teaches us anything, it is this: that God has a quarrel with His creature. There is disagreement, separation, conflict between God and His world. God does not agree with man, and man does not agree with God. Each goes his own way, and each has his own [...]

Hi Jamin, I’m not a regular visitor of your website, but every now and then I’m looking through it and find it very interesting. I’ve bought your portable presuppositionalist and started reading it. A friend of mine started some time ago to dig deep into all the presuppositionalism, christian philosophy and neo-calvinism. He’s telling me [...]

I apologize. I’ve been bragging up Bavinck’s one-volume Reformed Dogmatics (here)  for months. And now, I finally get it in the mail after pre-ordering it and waiting and waiting…and my worst nightmare is true: it’s just a selection and editorial synthesis from the wonderful 4 volume Dogmatics. It is not Reformed Dogmatics: Abridged in One [...]