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LunarIf nothing can be justified, why Christianity? Isn’t the answer loaded with rationality and empiricism, or is it arbitrary choice? You still need to presuppose the very epistemological categories which make them coherent with respect to one another. (This is the most important problem for...

All truth is understandable in relation to our foundational beliefs.Neither the sun, the station, or the train are foundational, not one of their trajectories contains any truth in the absence of the others. Nothing is certain beyond a limited description, and most significantly- no foundation...

Lunar You seem to have failed to understand my point, which I tried to make using the example of train, station, and sun. I will try again; to describe the trajectory of a moving object, it must be measured against a fictitious rigid mass. The fictitious rigid mass is arbitrary, as nothing can...

Lunar I am presenting a coherentist view of the world because coherentism makes sense, as opposed to foundationalism that requires irrational acceptance.The difference between perception and belief is surely the fact that belief is dogmatic, where perception is indicative, and may or may not be...

LunarWhen a train goes past a station, which one is moving; the train, or the station? The train moves in relation to the station, and the station moves in relation to the sun. The question then becomes- is the sun foundational or stationary, or does it also move in relation to a further more...

LunarHaven’t you just demonstrated that your beliefs are unfounded in the absence of irrational acceptance, which can’t be epistemologically justified? Why wouldn’t you ask yourself- what is the impetus for belief if it cant be justified? You must have reasons for believing, and if they’re...

PariahHow is it that you speak of that which is outside god, hasn’t the entire universe come into existence through, by, for, with and in Christ, and haven’t all things been reconciled to god in Christ (Colossians 1)? And isn’t the purpose of the universes existence the adoption of the human...