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I promised a thorough engagement with your epistemology and all I asked is a good faith gesture to assure me that your own "confirmation bias" doesn't prevent you from the hard work of reexamining your core assumptions--and you have declined. Your responses to me about NDEs and ADCs demonstrate...

My complaint is more basic--a matter of courtesy and intellectual fairness. I have read through all the pages of your epistemology and only asked you in return to watch 2 short Shared Death Experience videos to start a conversation which might become far reaching. If you were open-minded...

Your critics have analyzed the literary style of these 27 threads and their consensus is that their style is so different than the authentic Willie that they must be deemed pseudonymous. Therefore, all who respond to those threads must address them to Deutero_Willy.

By your deafening silence, you admit you have not watched the 2 posted short videos, which document the very best evidential NDEs, which of course are shared NDEs in which the bedside family members and friends experience features of the dying person's NDE, so that any hallucinatory or oxygen...

Each of these issues would take its own lengthy thread. What we need to find is the right starting point that might prompt you to change your mind on Christian theism. Let's get started with NDEs and ADCs. If you could be convinced, that some of these experiences demonstrate postmortem...

We can all set up our spiritual quest for God in a way that is in principle unfalsifiable and therefore epistemologically meaningless. To do so makes meaningful efforts at persuasion futile. But my faith in God is indeed falsifiable in principle in several ways: (a) If I could be convinced...

BlueGreen Earth, Theistic arguments are only as sound as their underlying assumptions. But core assumptions derive from our experience. Therefore, theistic (or nontheistic) arguments depend for their merits on the spiritual significance of our experience, especially on experiences of a...

Halloween has provided some of the most treasured and sacred memories of my early childhood. My Dad was too involved with work and church service to spend time with his little son. But I (age 5) was dressed up as a ghost and led from house to house, receiving abundant candy. As a shy little...

Have you ever wondered why the Beloved Disciple wins his footrace with Peter to the Tomb, but then refuses to enter it until Peter goes in and confirms that Jesus' corpse is not present (John 20:1-10)? The answer is one of innumerable reasons why the Beloved Disciple is Jesus' brother James...

First, the Gospels never say that Mary Magdalene was not allowed to touch the disciples! Second, the Gospels never say that the disciples were baptized and Mary was not. Yes, Jesus' disciples baptized others (John 4:2), but Mary was one of a group of female disciples who traveled around with...

Stan will resort to just about any ungodly ploy to avoid the Catholic refutation of his pro-abortion position. Notice how he resorts to the desperate expedient of slander to duck my case for an anti-abortion position in the apostolic church. Stan B: "Today idolatry is rampant in pagan [!]...

Your bigoted answer masks your evasion of my point about Didache 4:2 and early Catholic tradition. I find Catholics far, far more charitable and loving towards Evangelicals than the opposite. Indeed, just the other day, I conversed with an ex-Evangelical who fled his church to find God real in...

st3712; "If I have the Holy Ghost dwelling within me,...would I not always be in direct contact with God by His own Spirit within me at all times day and night?" No, sin and pride can cause the Holy Spirit to be extinguished within you. Hence, Paul's warning: "Do not extinguish (or quench")...

Pro-choice Christians quote this text in support of their pro-abortion position, arguing that killing the fetus only deserves a fine, whereas killing a born human requires life for life. Pro-life Christians try to counter this by citing Psalm 137:13: "You knit me together in my mother's womb."...

This thread eloquently illustrates the wisdom of Text Critic B. F. Wescott's famous wry observation: "The simple Gospel is not so simple as the simple would have you suppose." (1) Ultimately, the Bible can never be translated accurately because, for many important theological and ethical Greek...

Evangelicals have nothing to say in response to the biblical basis for the Catholic doctrine of Communion of the Saints as spelled out in this thread. Ironically, Evangelicals have no biblical basis for their common practice of praying directly to Jesus in direct defiance of His expressed...

As a witnessing Evangelical, I totally sympathize with BoL's demeanor, given the nauseating ad hominems constantly directed his way by your ilk. Your bigotry is eloquently displayed by your patronizing comment, "you need prayer and a savior." Your disrespect of how God's awesome grace is...

Beware the sin of bibliolatry! How ironic that most Fundamentalists are so indifferent to God's true Word that they refuse to even investigate the scholarly consensus that the KJV is based on the latest and most corrupt Hebrew and Greek Bible manuscripts!

The saints in Hebrews 12:11 cheer us on! – Catholic Strength The Apostle's Creed contains this faith affirmation: "I believe in the communion of saints." The doctrine of the Communion of Saints refers to the interconnected community, living and dead, of all saints on Earth, in Heaven, and yes...