Defending the Swoon Theory – Part 10: The “Blood and Water” Objection
WHERE WE ARE AT In Part #6 through Part #9, I have argued that Peter Kreeft’s “Break their Legs” objection, Objection #2 against The Survival Theory (TST), is a complete FAILURE. Objection #2 has two main components, and can be summarized like this: 1. A Roman soldier decided to NOT break Jesus’ legs while Jesus was hanging … Defending the Swoon Theory – Part 10: The “Blood and Water” Objection
Defending the Swoon Theory – Part 9: More Problems with Objection #2
WHERE WE ARE AT Kreeft’s Objection #2 (the “Break their Legs” objection) against The Survival Theory (hereafter: TST) has at least three problems: PROBLEM 1: Roman Soldiers were NOT Medical Doctors PROBLEM 2: The Same Passage Implies the Soldiers were NOT Sure Jesus was Dead PROBLEM 3: The Key Historical Claims Made by Kreeft are … Defending the Swoon Theory – Part 9: More Problems with Objection #2
The Swoon Theory is a THEORY (duh!) not an ARGUMENT
WHAT IS THE SWOON THEORY? Here are some things that The Swoon Theory is NOT: Obviously, there a millions of different kinds of things that are NOT The Swoon Theory. Obviously, The Swoon Theory is some sort of intellectual thing, an IDEA of some kind. Even the very muddled and confused Joe Hinman understands that … The Swoon Theory is a THEORY (duh!) not an ARGUMENT
Defending the Swoon Theory – Part 8: Problems with the “Break their Legs” Objection
WHERE WE ARE AT In Part 7 of this series, I presented Peter Kreeft’s “Break their Legs” Objection (i.e., Objection #2) against the swoon theory, and, more properly, against The Survival Theory (hereafter: TST). I pointed out three significant problems with Objection #2: PROBLEM 1: Roman Soldiers were NOT Medical Doctors PROBLEM 2: The Same … Defending the Swoon Theory – Part 8: Problems with the “Break their Legs” Objection
The Euthyphro Dilemma, Part 5: Is there a way out?
Recall the two options of the Euthyphro dilemma: (I) The reason that God commands that we perform morally obligatory actions is that they are morally obligatory. (II) Morally obligatory actions are morally obligatory in virtue of the fact that God commands that we perform them. In previous posts in this series I explained what the … The Euthyphro Dilemma, Part 5: Is there a way out?