Monthly Archives: August 2008
The Origin of Sin
The goal of this article is to apply the ideas behind What Is Free Will? to the theme of A Humble or a Haughty Spirit. Having read both of these will be helpful in reading this article, as I justify in those articles some of the assumptions that I will take for granted in this [...]What Is Free Will? (Or, Does the Nominal Believer Really Believe?)
The question of free will is whether, and in what sense, rational agents exercise control over their actions and decisions. -Wikipedia, Free Will Rational agents, by definition, act based on what they know and believe in order to maximize their expected total enjoyment(/pleasure/utility/etc.). Though intuitively it would seem that not everyone is rational, the definitions [...]George Bush and the Death of American Constantinianism
Or, How God Works Through History to Suppress Bad Theology. The history of the Church over the past few centuries may be surprising to many who consider the world to be in a perpetual state of moral decline. The 18th and 19th Centuries were particularly dark times for Protestantism and Evangelicalism worldwide. Having fully accepted [...]Epta Astera
Over the past year I’ve been playing around with musical composition, and I think the result is finally ready to go public. It goes by the name Epta Astera (Seven Stars in Koine Greek), and consists of influences from gregorian, medieval, neofolk, black metal, post-industrial, and a few other musical styles (varying from song to [...]