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“You have given us a good explanation, one that many opponents of Calvinism don’t understand. It still doesn’t explain why God chooses some and not others, or rather why he would choose some for destruction. That is left to the inscrutable, hidden, mysterious will of God. Barth pointed out the problem with that, is that […]

First causes and second thoughts.  (an answer to a friend)
Plato and Aristotle were the big “First Cause” guys.  They wrote quite a bit about it in their books on everything from politics to metaphysics.  It’s must reading for those interested.  Aquinas was the main technical formulator of the Five Ways, or what we call the […]