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Lighten Up: Scary Calvinism

October 31, 2014

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Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Calvinism, Cartoons, Lighten Up

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Free Will: What is a free agent? January 25, 2013

What does it really mean to be a free agent? In this reflection, Greg offers some thoughts on free agents and how it can be that they are not exhaustively determined.

Tags: Calvinism, Determinism, Free Will, Open Theism, Philosophy

Topics: Free Will and the Future

Free Will: Are studies that demonstrate genetic determinism a threat to free will? January 28, 2013

Greg shares his continuing thoughts on free will with a thought experiment (and a hand-drawn graph!) granting that we are largely determined by forces outside of our control. If we grant this presupposition, does that mean that free will is an illusion or insignificant? Find out!

Tags: Calvinism, Determinism, Free Will, Open Theism

Topics: Providence, Predestination and Free Will, Responding to Objections

Lighten Up: When Dogs Get to Heaven November 21, 2014

Tags: Animals, Lighten Up

Lighten Up: Paul’s Thorn in the Flesh November 2, 2012

Image Sourced via Stuff Christians Like.

Tags: Humor, Lighten Up, Thorn in the Flesh

Lighten Up: Dance! March 15, 2013

Let’s do this.

Tags: Dance, Kid President, Lighten Up, Soul Pancake

Free Will: How free will presupposes a great deal of determinism January 30, 2013

This particular video was recorded last week when the forecast called for a high of -4F. Greg makes light of the freezing conditions before he settles into the topic of how a mostly determined world is actually the needed context for free will to operate. Stay warm out there!