What does it mean for God to be “perfect”? Perfectly knowledgeable? Perfectly powerful? Perfectly good? Did God create the “perfect world”?...
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Episode 07
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Our human sense is that our will is fully free. Our scientific sense is that every action is determined by a prior action. Free will versus determinism is a big question...
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If God is the Creator, did God create the universe out of absolutely nothing? Would this mean that prior to God’s creation there was no matter-energy, no space-time, no...
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Philosophy of religion poses numerous questions about God: “proof” or “disproofs” of existence, nature and attributes, personhood, relation to time, relation to...
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God is supposed to be all-powerful, all-knowing and all good. In addition, is God is supposed to be ‘all-free’? What does it mean for God to be perfectly free?...
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Free will has traditionally been a problem in philosophy. Recently, the battleground of free will has shifted to neuroscience. Now some claim that to solve the problem of...
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The God of Judaism, Christianity and Islam claims to be an all powerful, omnipotent being. Can this omnipotent God do everything, make anything happen? Literally everything,...
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How do Buddhism, Chinese traditions, and Hinduism address the ultimate essence of all things, the ground of being? What are transcendence, oneness, interconnectivity,...
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I search for God but keep clear of miracles. Believers exhort me to accept that miracles are real, to recognize that miracles demonstrate the existence of a supernatural...
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Free will seems obvious, simple, common; but it’s subtle, profound, maddening. Free will probes the deep nature of human existence. But big questions have big problems....
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Could God be eternal? For God to be eternal, God would exist outside of time, would not experience time’s flow. God would have no past, present or future. As Boethius...
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To search for meaning, God or something like God is often involved. But this need not be so. How can meaning be found, or purpose realized, without invoking supernatural...
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