The Philosophical Muser: Sunday Faith Series

The Philosophical Muser: Sunday Faith Series

Sunday, 21 October 2018

Why Did God Use So Much Space & Time?

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A conversation came up the other day, in which I was asked why I thought God decided to spend such an inordinate amount of time and space ...
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Sunday, 26 November 2017

Why God Probably Had To Be Male

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The Church of Sweden has urged its clergy to use more gender-neutral language when referring to God, and to avoid referring to the deity...
Sunday, 12 November 2017

The Genius Of Christianity: Pascal's Wager - Placing A Bet On Whether God Exists

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Pascal's Wager is one of the most famous philosophical propositions in history, but it is also one of the most widely misunderstood. P...
Sunday, 28 May 2017

When We Do Bold & Unusual Things

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Sometimes, out of the blue, I do bold and unusual things – things that I use to escape my own sin for a moment to make a point of how powe...
Sunday, 23 April 2017

Where The Genius Of God Is At Its Most Brilliant

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One of things I'm often trying to convey about Christianity is what a story of genius it is. That is to say, the Incarnation - God becom...
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Sunday, 5 February 2017

On Morality & C.S Lewis's Fleet of Ships Analogy

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The other day I was reminded of one of C.S Lewis's chapters in Mere Christianity - a chapter called “The Three Parts of Morality”. So...
Sunday, 11 September 2016

The Problem of Evil

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The most popular and long-standing objection to God's existence is a modus tollens argument that if God is omnipotent, omniscient, and o...
Sunday, 7 August 2016

Church-Sponsored Expensive Bulls**t

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Whenever you hear people tell you that you're making too much of a fuss about young earth creationism, and that you're wasting too...
Sunday, 10 April 2016

The Difference Between Biblical Facts & Biblical Truths

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When scientists learned about the atom, electromagnetism, and genetics they were learning things that had been true of nature long before ...
Sunday, 27 March 2016

The Resurrection Seems The Most Likely Historical Truth

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When I read the New Testament, and surrounding works by 1st century writers, it seems a lot easier to believe that the resurrection actuall...
Sunday, 13 December 2015

Here's A Good Way To Arouse Your Suspicions

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Here's a tip I find useful in life. While of course it's necessary to examine the content of people's claims to check for faulty...
Sunday, 16 August 2015

Christianity & The Legalisation Of Prostitution

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One interesting question I sometimes ask is; "Is there any moral position you hold as a Christian that you wouldn't hold as a non-C...
Sunday, 5 July 2015

Be Careful About Getting Offended On God's Behalf

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America has just legalised same-sex marriage, and while this makes lots of people happy, it is bound to be a real affront to many. My advic...
Sunday, 21 June 2015

When Ignorance Is Sometimes Best

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In a week of mourning over the tragic deaths of the Christian members of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church in Charleston , we h...
Sunday, 7 June 2015

The Trouble With Humanism Is Humans

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We often hear talk in the UK of injecting more humanism into our society in an attempt to rescue us from the archaic social cancer that is ...
Sunday, 24 May 2015

Scripture: When The Literal & Non-Literal Seamlessly Blend

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Most Christians - at least in the circles I roll - do not think that Adam and Eve were real people. This is quite a rational viewpoint: huma...
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This is the Blog of James Knight - a keen philosophical commentator on many subjects. My primary areas of interest are: philosophy, economics, theology, politics, mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry, psychology, history, the arts and social commentary. I also contribute articles to the Adam Smith Institute and the Institute of Economics Affairs. Hope you enjoy this blog! Always happy to hear from old friends and new! Email:j.knight423@btinternet.com
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