Some band

Some band, last evening

Possible names

The G Nuts

The Three Stooges

Cleaned, Pressed and Slabbed

Bagged & Bored

The Four Stooges (with Zombie)

Frank N. Stein & The Three Domes (with Zombie)

The Red Skulls

Three Fits, Not Thin

Charles Nelson Chuckles & His Two Stooges

Slabbed In Mylar

Via Rail, Las Vegas

Social Distancing? Oh, You Mean, Being Introverted?

Never Wear White T-Shirts...Until You Are Dead (yea Chuckles)

Elvis & The Chuck Monks (with Bobby Buff)

Last evening

Briefly in regards to omniscience

Bangor University, Official

Preface 

Before finishing my Doctorate, I promised I would eventually share my Ph.D. text and questionnaire results on this website. This has been nearly exhaustively accomplished. 

Searching through my Blogger website archives, I noticed that the footnote citation in italics below had not been shared as of yet. Blogger has improved its interface and now the entire archive is searchable quicker. This citation was in the context of my William James section from my Ph.D. thesis which includes a discussion on the view, which I disagree with, that God is finite.  

James held to pragmatism and the view that God was finite (limited).

2010 Theodicy and Practical Theology: Ph.D. thesis, the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, Lampeter The citation 

I would suggest even if God was finite, his knowledge based on intelligence and a longer existence would provide him with a better understanding of possible situations in comparison to his creations.  

May 29, 2020 

I have reviewed the theological opinion, that it is logically impossible for even an infinite deity to have omniscience. For the sake of this article, let us assume it is true, temporarily.

Biblical Reformed theology and a sympathetic, theistic, philosophy of religion, would still reason God as the primary cause of all things. God would be considered sovereign over all things. Secondary human causes would always submit to God's sovereign power as the primary cause. God, by nature, would have a superior understanding of events than would human beings, and angelic beings for that matter.

In contrast, I do reason within my biblical, orthodox, Reformed theology, and within my philosophy of religion, that God’s nature as infinite and related attributes would include omniscience and omnipotence, for that matter.

But, God’s nature and attributes exist logically and do not allow for logical contradiction.

JAMES, WILLIAM (1892-1907)(1969) The Moral Philosophy of William James, John K. Roth (ed.), Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York. 

JAMES, WILLIAM (1893)(2004) William James and a Science of Religions, Wayne Proudfoot (ed.), Columbia University Press, New York. 

JAMES, WILLIAM (1902-1910)(1987) Writings 1902 – 1910, The Library of America, New York. 

JAMES, WILLIAM (1902)(2002) The Varieties of Religious Experience, Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York. 

JAMES, WILLIAM (1904) ‘Does ‘Consciousness’ Exist?’, in Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, and Scientific Methods, Volume 1, pages 477-491. New York, Columbia University. http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/consciousness.htm 

JAMES, WILLIAM (1907) Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking, Longman and Green Company, New York. 

PAULSON, DAVID (1999) ‘The God of Abraham, Isaac, and (William) James’, in The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 13.2, University Park, Pennsylvania, Penn State University Press. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_speculative_philosophy/v013/13.2paulsen.html

Archives 

Friday, June 12, 2009 William James and omnipotence

This week

This week

Special Report: From The Flat Earth Society

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Suggestion

Take a professionally guided boat ride in any ocean. Pay your guide (s) so that you keep sailing until you 'go over the edge' or arrive back at the original location. Of course, if the boat would eventually 'go over the edge', the professional guide (s) should refuse the trip. As should any guide (s) in the know.

This can provide one with personal, empirical proof. I know the result, based on reason, but if I state it, it will not be personally, empirical for someone that holds to the flat earth theory.

After all, I could still possibly be part of a conspiracy, even though I am not. 

This is my first post with the new Blogger template.

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Anti-clerical bias

Last evening

Anti-clerical bias

Preface

I found my MPhil reference concerning anti-clerical bias.

Tuesday, January 10, 2006, MPhil Wales 2003

Monday, April 07, 2008, Non-Christian perspectives from Woods

Recent archives

Saturday, May 16, 2020, Deism and the distrust of the clergy

I noted on May 16, 2020:

One of my thesis tutors at the University of Wales, early in the process for my MPhil thesis, told me (paraphrased) that in Britain and Europe there was a distrust of the clergy. Researching this idea, I found that this distrust in the clergy gained much momentum in the enlightenment era and continues to the 21st century.

2003 The Problem of Evil: Anglican and Baptist Perspectives: MPhil thesis, Bangor University

It should be noted that there exists an anti-clerical bias with some critics of Christianity in western society. There is a distrust of organized religion, and this viewpoint is likely a factor for many who choose Atheism as a philosophy.

This is a mistake because many in the Christian church can see the errors within it, including the failings of the clergy, but Christianity and a belief in God are primarily about Christ’s work on earth and in heaven. It is not primarily about the conduct of God’s representatives on earth.

In other words, instances of bad or even false representation of God and Christ on earth do not make Christianity invalid. Christianity should be examined by the words and philosophy in Scripture. Within the Bible it clearly points out that human beings cannot match God’s standards. This means that critics should judge the faith primarily by God’s standards in Scripture, and not by the standards of struggling Christians.

WOODS, B.W. (1974) Christians in Pain, Grand Rapids, Baker Book House.

Related work

2010 Theodicy and Practical Theology: Ph.D. thesis, the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, Lampeter 

Consider

Matthew 7: 21-23 King James Version (KJV)

21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.