- Sept 18, 2005 - Metaphysics 1
- Review of Last Class, Business
- Ask how many books are needed.
- Lens metaphor
- Introduction: What is Metaphysics
- Metaphysical Poetry vs Physicalist Love
- What the World is Trying to Steal
- Love, Beauty
- The Astonishing Hypothesis is that `You,' your joys and your sorrows,
your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and
free will, are in fact no more than the behaviour of a vast assembly
of nerve cells and their associated molecules.
- Introduction
- Quick overview
- Asks: What does it mean to exist, What kinds of things exist?
- Purpose: Encouragement due to rigorous philosophy
- Questions to ask
- What is the Ultimate Reality
- What is the Nature of the World
- What is man?
- Christian View of Reality
- The Ultimate Reality
- God is the Ultimate Reality
- God is Sovereign
- God is Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent
- God is Spirit
- God is Triune
- God is Infinite
- God is Good
- The Nature of the World
- We are Dualists
- Material and Immaterial
- Abstract Entities
- God
- Thoughts, the Will
- Laws, Mathematics, Logic
- Why might a non-Christian scientist prefer to believe
there is only the material as opposed to both material
and immaterial?
- They believe, or want to believe that there is no God.
- They believe that two types of things cannot interact in a way
they can measure by science: "If any event causes a physical
event, it itself is a physical event." Is this a true statement? If
not, how might we reconcile this? (Sovereignty of God)
- Question: Why might a professing Christian prefer to
believe there is only the material as opposed to both
immaterial and material? (process theology)
- A desire to accomodate apparently successful non-Christian
methods and thought. This in itself shows the importance of
having a Biblically-grounded Christian worldview.
- A difficulty reconciling the tie between mind and matter.
- Created by God, Ex Nihilo
- Created Freely by God
- Eph 1:11
- who works all things after the counsel of His will
- Rev 4:11
- because of His will they existed, and were created
- Always Depends on God
- Heb 1:3
- upholds all things by the word of His power
- The Nature of Man
- Made in God's Image
- Fallen, Taking All of Creation with Him
- Redeemed, to be Glorified in Christ
- The Bible is Redemptive History
- Rom 8:20-22
- Creation will be set free.