Recent content by Rhetro

Correct, logic comes from God. But Man is made in the image of God and able to use logic. I am talking about using logic with nonbelievers to show how their atheist worldview falls into absurdity. That’s different from carnal wisdom or worldly wisdom.

Logic is not carnal or worldly wisdom, logic comes from God. Christ is the Logos. Can you define what logic is?

The largely protestant right wing is just like the democrats in this respect. One side throws around "racist" to shut down all discourse, the other throws "antisemitic". Nobody who is not subscribed to the heresy of dispensationalism argues that Jesus was not ethnically Jewish or born under...

I take it with absolute seriousness. The 1054 Schism is not a dusty piece of history, it is the definitive moment the West broke away from the original, unchangeable, apostolic Church to introduce theological innovations like the Filioque and Papal supremacy. It is therefore no surprise that...

Them switching the word from 'sense data' to 'reproducibility of results' is just a semantic dodge that doesn't solve the problem. They still have to use their physical senses to observe a reproduced result, meaning it is still bound to empiricism. You see? More importantly, the rule still...

No, I am telling you to follow Titus 1:9, not disregard it. The Greek word elenchein in it means to refute and expose error, it's not a modern sales pitch. You are accidentally attributing the work of the Holy Spirit to human effort. St. Paul states in 1 Corinthians 3:6: 'I planted, Apollos...

Well this would be a misunderstanding of how conversion works. No human being can 'make' someone a believer, that is strictly the work of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 3:6). Our job, as Titus 1:9 says, is to use sound doctrine to 'convince the gainsayers'..which literally means to silence and...

Question, do you think Paul was equating worldy wisdom with logic here? Because logic is not worldly wisdom, it is a reflection of God. Paul is not equating worldly wisdom with logic, he was condemning the arrogant, secular philosophies of the pagan Greeks. John 1:1 "In the beginning was the...

Bringing their presuppositions into focus. You can throw as much evidence as you want at them…this is what they want and what they are used to. You have to instead go up a level and challenge their paradigm for how they evaluate evidence to begin with. The problem is not the lack of evidence...

Hello, yes. That’s completely fair. If I could sum it up in just one sentence: Without God, you cannot justify logic in order to even be able to raise an objection against God to begin with. Think of atheism as a jury floating in mid air demanding evidence, but without being able to justify...

The most common question from nonbelievers: “What is your evidence?” The reply: You don't get to ask for evidence without first demonstrating what grounds logic in your worldview to even evaluate evidence in the first place. Also, empiricism holds that all knowledge comes from sense data...

Cradle Orthodox here, ask me anything.