Friday, February 10, 2017

Necessary Being exists=Principle of Existential Necessity (Bn exists)

The principle of Existential Necessity follows from two other Principles: The Principle of Existence (no. 1) and the Principle of Causality (no. 5).
 Since something undeniably exists (no. 1), either is is (a) all contingent or (b) all necessary or (c) some is necessary and some is contingent.
But both (b) and (c) acknowledge a Necessary Being, and (a) is logically impossible, being contrary to the self-evident principle no.5. For if all being not to exist. That is, a state of total nothingness is possible. But something now undeniably exists (e.g,  I do), as was demonstrated in premise no. . And nothing cannot cause something (no.5). Therefore, it is not possible (i.e., it is possible) for there to have been a state of total nothingness. But if it is impossible for nothing to exist (since something does exist), then something necessarily exists (i.e., a Necessary Being does exist).
To put it another way, if something exists and if nothing cannot cause something, then it follows that something must exist necessarily. For if something did not necessarily exist, then nothing would have caused the something that did exist. Since it is impossible for nothing to cause something, then it is necessary for something to always been.
This Necessary Being is also eternal, uncaused, unchanging, unlimited and one, since a Necessary Being cannot come to be, be caused by another, undergo change, be limited by any possibility of what it could be (a Necessary Being has no possibility to be other than it is) or to be more than one Being (since there cannot be two infinite beings).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH2fc6LDJ7A

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Adaptation and science, Part Two

Adaptation: 
A physical trait or behavior due to inherited characteristics that gives an organism the ability to survive in a given environment.
Biblical creationists consider  major structures to be part of the original design provides by God. Modifications to those structures, adaptations, occur due to genetic recombination, random mutations and natural selection. These structures do not arise from the modification of similar structures of another kind of animal. The beak of the woodpecker, for example, did not arise from the beak of a theropod dinosaur ancestor; it was an originally designed structure. The difference in beak shapes among woodpeckers fits with the idea of natural selection leading to changes within a population of woodpeckers-within the created kind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK_TYL7qvQs

Monday, February 6, 2017

The glory that is beyond

The apostle shows to the Hebrews the typical reference of their ceremonies to Christ. The tabernacle was a movable temple, shadowing forth the unsettled state of the church upon earth, and the human nature of the Lord Jesus Christ, in whom the fullness of the Godhead dwelt bodily. The typical meaning of these things has been shown in former remarks, and the ordinances and articles of the Mosaic covenant point out Christ as our Light, and as the Bread of life to our souls; and remind us of his Divine Person, his holy priesthood, perfect righteousness, and all-prevailing intercession. Thus was the Lord Jesus Christ, all and in all, from the beginning. And as interpreted by the gospel, these things are a glorious representation of the wisdom of God, and confirm faith in Him who was prefigured by them.

Hebrews 9:1-5
 Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary. A tabernacle was set up. In its first room were the lampstand and the table with its consecrated bread; this was called the Holy Place. Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place, which had the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. This ark contained the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant. Above the ark were the cherubim of the Glory, overshadowing the atonement cover. But we cannot discuss these things in detail now.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqiy9JRx-5w&list=PLXYr1EhcJLKVy6iNUk5dUFDozT3SYuQ8j&index=9

Saturday, January 21, 2017

The principle of existential causality

All contingent beings need a cause. For a contingent being is something that is but could not be. But since it has the possibility not to to exist, then it does not account for its own existence. That is, in itself there is no basis explaining why it exists rather than does not exist. It literally has nothing (non-being) to ground it. But non-being cannot ground or cause anything (5). Only something can produce spmething.
Therefore, this Necessary Being is personal, rational and moral in a necessary way, not in a contingent way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0O39jEqfYU 

Thursday, January 19, 2017

Adaptation and science, Part One

Adaptation: A physical trait or behavior due to inherited characteristics that gives an organism the ability to survive in a given environment.

Evolutionist often look at a characteristic of an organism and assume that it was produced through a series of changes and call it an adaptation to a given environment. To an evolutionist, legs on tetrapods are an adaptation that arose as a fish's fins became adapted to crawling in a shallow stream, providing some form of advantage. The fins with more bones were better adapted to a life partially lived on the land. Fins that developed bones attached to a pectoral girdle gave an advantage to those individuals that wandered onto land to find food or avoid predators. The problems with this scenario are in the amount of  time such a change would require and the lack of a mechanism to cause the change.
Evolutionary biologists assume, based on geologic interpretation, that there have been billions of years for this process to occur. But if long ages did not exist, the hypothesis can't be true.
The other requirement, a mechanism for change, is also assumed to exist-even though it has never been observed. Natural selection tends to delete information from the population. If natural selection is the mechanism that explains the successive adaptation in the fish fin example, it must provide new genetic information. To produce the new bones in the fins requires an orchestration of biologic processes.
The bones don't just have to be present; they must develop at the right time in the embryo, have their shape and size predetermined by the DNA sequence, be attached to the correct tendons, ligaments and blood vessels, attach to the bones of the pectoral girdle and so on. The amount of information required for this seemingly transformation can't be provided by a process that generally deletes information from the genome.

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB3_xGNe9Kg

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

The old and the new

Jesus came to fulfill the Old Testament. The Old Testament was good but the law of God shows that we need a Savior and Jesus is the Savior. He is God and he fulfilled the law of God.
I think Hebrews 8:13 goes well with Matthew 5:17-20. When I read the Old Testament, I realize that Jesus is the answer and we need to surrender to him.

Matthew 5:17-20

 17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. 19 Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.

 

Hebrews 8:13

 By calling this covenant “new,” he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.

 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-JilonMTJM

Friday, January 6, 2017

The negative principle of modality

A Necessary Being is by definition a mode (kind) of being that cannot be. That is, by its very mode (modality), it must be. It cannot come to be or cease to be. But to be caused means to come to be.
Hence, a Necessary Being cannot be caused. For what comes to be is not necessary.
But a Necessary Being cannot be contingent(i.e., non-necessary) in its being which would be a contradiction (no. 3).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZC8EfViQ0M&list=PL3gdeV4Rk9Ef6jhlYL-Pp1UwzvnL_kbqw&index=8