bimrose.bsky.social
@bimrose.bsky.social
Aspiring author of science fiction / fantasy novels / short stories, and reader. Will play anything with a racquet. Likes Lacan.
You could be right about that, I don't know too much about Pelagius myself. I did see a video recently with Leighton Flowers where he had a scholar on who argued that Pelagianism as often construed by Augustine was a myth.
January 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I guess the meaning of that could change depending on what we mean by perfection. It is related to original sin, though: without original sin and with free will, one could conceivably live a sinless human life.
January 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I'd agree with Pelagius here, but isn't the central problem of Pelagianism the claim that humans can achieve human perfection by their own free will?
January 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
It's true that it's the more dominant theory, but in my reading I've found it's more often assumed rather than justified. Maudlin makes this point as well.
November 10, 2023 at 4:51 PM
Especially under the pandeist variant. God changing and limiting Himself in order to create the world only makes sense if He loves the world.
November 9, 2023 at 2:06 PM
For example, the kalam I think ends up committing the atheist to B-theory, whereas the logical problem of evil is problematic for certain notions of God more than others.
November 9, 2023 at 2:00 PM
I agree that they are by no means definitive, but I do think they point us in the right directions, or at least reveal something about our entailments and commitments.
November 9, 2023 at 1:59 PM