atheism


After many requests, I am responding to the typical objection of the “problem of evil” if there is a Being who is All Loving and All Good, how can He permit evil? In this brief Q n A I will respond to the 3 main objections from our philosophic perspective as outlined in Job and other places in patristics. Our view of evil is that it is a privation, a negation and a move of the will away from the Good. It has no being in itself and ontological existence.



Matt Dillahunty and Jay Dyer square off in a long-requested discussion about the existence of God and the validity of the transcendental argument. Matt Dillahunty is a well known public speaker and debater who has appeared in debates with Dr. Jordan Peterson and remains a skeptic, while Jay Dyer is a philosopher and author.  The debate will be moderated by Alternate Current Radio’s Hesher.


Can Theism be established logically? Is there a simple presentation of the transcendental argument that can be had in 15 minutes? In this video I attempt to boil down the presuppositional argument to a brief comparison and contrast with the atheist/secularist/materialist worldview as a test case. Logically the non-theist only has a limited number of paths it can take from its starting point. Early on, Sir Sceptic challenges this argument with his refined logic skills.

Debate Here 

 
Ethan invited me back to Ralph Retort to debate Apollonian pagan Mark Brahmin on the nature of the biblical texts, and in particular the law, the prophets and the wisdom texts.  It’s a heated debate that focuses on the validity of the Bible, the possibility of miracles, logical laws and fallacies, justifying claims and much more!  We had a funny, raucous live audience of 2k – Enjoy.





UPDATE:

Note for the debate: YouTube changed the ingestion settings live stream page since we tested it two days ago. Matt was cool about it and we are rescheduling for week of 19th. No one was running, YT has redone steaming page. You can’t schedule a live event and have it stream the way it used to since hangouts is gone, you have to use “live stream now.” My mistake



This week the SUNDAY WIRE broadcasts LIVE on ACR with host Patrick Henningsen covers some of the top stories in the US, Europe and internationally. In the second hour, we’ll connect with Jay Dyer, author of the best-selling Esoteric Hollywood book series, to talk about the recent push-back by leading academics against Darwin’s Theory of Evolution.


Michael Lofton asks Jay about essence and energies, created and uncreated grace, authority in Orthodoxy, Gregory Palamas, Maximus the Confessor, among many other related topics!
“1. Sanctifying Grace is a created supernatural gift really distinct from God. (Sent. fidei proxima.” -Ludwig Ott
Versus: