Evan Minton's Blog, page 12

Q&A: The MASSIVE Argument

Peace of Christ, Mr.Minton, hope you enjoy probabilities. I was rereading our last interaction and noticed how I said Yahweh is more probable than phoenixes purely through a more massive amount of experiences. So I chewed on this a bit and have attempted to make an argument from Massive experiences for the truth of Christianity. Here it is:  

If I remember correctly, you must repeat an operation thrice to establi...

Some Thoughts On Universalism

I’ve been hard at work making PowerPoint slides for an upcoming series on Hell on The Cerebral Faith YouTube channel (Cerebral Faith Video). The series is designed to be like an online course divided into 8 lectures, and they will be livestreamed as part of my Cerebral Faith LIVE Web Show. While looking for some quotes by J.P Moreland in Lee Strobel’s book “The Case For Faith”, I found the portion where Moreland ...

Q&A: How Do We Know Someone Other Than God Didn’t Raise Jesus?

Peace of Christ Mr.Minton. I have just finished the conclusion of your 12 part video series. And a question came to my mind so here we go. 

Q:How do we get from the Resurrection to all of Christainity? 
A(As said in your video): If Jesus rose from the dead then God put his stamp of approval on everything Jesus said and did. Including his claim to be divine. God would never raise a heretic and a blasphemer. But g...

BOOK REVIEW: “Christianity Cross-Examined” by Ken Samples

Ken Samples’ “Christianity Cross Examined” is a really good book. The task of Samples is to show that Christianity is not only true and rational to believe, but also that it’s relevant to us today and is good. The book is divided up into two halves to make those points accordingly. Part 1 deals with the rationality of Christian belief. Samples starts off with the common claim of atheists that science has made God...

Q&A: But What Is A Debate? A Miserable Pile Of Rhetoric?

I am proud of that email title. Keep it if you can.  

Anyway on to the question. It is really really simple. Are debates even worth watching? I mean, debates seem like the perfect way to decide between a matter. Weigh the arguments of each side and such. But don’t debates just measure the rhetorical skills of each side? Aren’t debates just these exercises in rhetorical skills and ability instead of the intellect...

Q&A: Some Textual Critical Questions

Hi CerebralFaith,

Thanks for the links you sent me a while back. I am enjoying spending my free time reading through everything. I have some questions though on some textual issues. Almost every scholar agrees that the Bible suffers from purposeful and unpurposeful fits of interpolation; i.g John 7:53 – 8:11, John 5, Johannine Comma, etc. Some of these have serious implications regarding doctrine, for instance Jo...

Q&A: What Are Good Resources For Studying The Case For Jesus’ Resurrection?

Peace of Christ, Mr. Minton, hope that this email isn’t too big an ask. if you’ve noticed, my Q’s have trended toward the Resurrection. Probably due to the church season. Thus, I thought to myself instead of emailing you every time I have a question about the Resurrection, twould be more efficient to learn more about the Resurrection myself. Below I’ve catalogued the resources I have studied, and am considering.

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Modern Science vs Religion? Critical analysis of new atheist assertions concerning the interplay of science and religion popularized by viable memetic reproduction.

APA – Edmonds, N. (2021) Modern Science vs Religion? Critical analysis of new atheist assertions concerning the interplay of science and religion popularized by viable memetic reproduction. Cerebral Faith. (link)

Available – https://independent.academia.edu/Noah...

Key terms: memetics, theism, atheism, christianity, fundamentalism, meme spreading, meme replication, meme reproduction

Introduction

Hardly anyone living in 2021’s post-internet culture would be ignorant of what a meme...

BOOK REVIEW: “Father, Son, and Spirit in Romans 8” by Ron C. Fay

This is a pretty good book on Paul’s view of the Trinity. Fay’s aim is to see how the recipients of the epistle titled in our English Bibles as “Romans” would have understood Paul’s doctrine of God. Many of them were converts out of paganism after all. How would they have grasped the concept of The Trinity? Fay begins his thesis by surveying the religious beliefs of the Romans in Roman Mythology (chapter 1). Fay’...

Q&A: Alter Of The Unknown Natural?

Peace of Christ, Mr. Minton, may God fill your mind with wisdom and heart with love. Recently I learned of a newer tactic to deny miracles. It’s an appeal to the unknown natural. I’ll give you a basic presentation of it from the perspective of an atheist (fake persona).

Hector Aaron: Anything the supernatural can do, the unknown natural can do better. How exactly do you tell the difference between a miraculous oc...