Christianity, rationally defended, introduction

[Brucknerian]

Serious critical responses from members are welcome, pertaining to the works that can be found via the two links below. I'm a serious Christian, by serious meaning one who analyzes God's Word with the view of trying my best to understand it on its fundamental level. Did you know that what philosophers call 'the problem of evil' is answered in the Bible? ... and that there are ways to prove God's existence outside of the Bible, through pure critical reasoning? The links lead to a work that can be downloaded for free from Philosophy Papers Archives. The titles are "Rational Theism, Part One ..." and "Rational Theism, Part Two...." The first part puts forth an a priori proof of God's existence that conforms to the critical demands for such a proof as put forth by the philosopher/metaphysician Immanuel Kant. It includes an Appendix that clarifies Kant in this regard, and the Appendix will help those both familiar and unfamiliar with Kant to comprehend more clearly what Kant had in mind in his "Critique of Pure Reason". "Rational Theism, Part One" can be called a Theory of Everything (TOE) in the true sense. To understand this you'll have to not just read, but comprehend the pure conceptual system of understanding it advances. I believe not everyone will be suited to such a task as it puts a serious strain on one's conceptual abiloities--artists, or creative thinkers are more likely to understand the system of understanding than those who simply breeze through works with no real intent to understand a work on its deepest level. The second work, "Rational Theism, Pat Two..." is a Biblical Exegesis that presents the Bible's answer to the problem of evil, and it is an answer that apologists have failed to understand, having sought for an answer to the problem outside of the scriptures. If you have ever wondered why, if there is a God, there is such evil as we see and hear about in the world, that reaches back to the dawn of civilization, you might be interested in learning the answer that's apparent in the Word. It's very clearly delineated and its surprising at least to me that it has gone completely unnoticed. There are five dozen scriptural passages that are included that when put together, reveals the answer. The two works can also be called philosophical, and probably more this, than just another apologetic, and this should become more and more clear as one goes through the works. Let me know what you think. Are the works a contribution to serious Christian understanding, and debate, are they a staunch defense against atheism; or are they just the same old usual apologetics?

https://philpapers.org/archive/LIIRTP-2.pdf
https://philpapers.org/rec/LIIRTP-3

[TRANSPONDER]

[Replying to JehovahsWitness in post #210]

Bad analogy. It is the watchmaker fallacy - we know a watch is manufactured and grass isn't because we pick out the watch as a designed and manufactured object.

So the analogy is fish in a pond saying the water was made and designed for them When they actually evolved to live in the water.

You may advance creationist ideas from YE science denial to a gap for God 'god is behind evolution', but at least don't misunderstand, misrepresent or strawman the argument.

[fredonly]

Every property that any object can have must be grounded in the fundamental basis of material reality.

How do you know this?

Because that's what it means to be the fundamental basis of material reality. Things don't pop into existence, and properties don't appear by magic.

[TRANSPONDER]

I agree. What we know about how things work shows that physics and Biology obtains. We know the material rules under which things work. There is No good evidence for a god being involved, never mind which particular one.

There are the unknowns of origin, though really consciousness is not a mystery - we see it has evolved from the first survival reaction. The same for morality, if even that was considered a ' who made dem laws, anyway?' argument

Abiogenesis has at least a mechanism, or much of one, and Cosmic origins is just an unknown.

There is NO good evidence for any god.