Thank you for such an excellent interview. Very illuminating.

I was deeply moved.

I just found your channel. This interview was so good, the explanation of the Cosmic Conflict was a welcome addition to better understanding the Divine Council worldview brought out by Heiser. Thanks for putting up this interview!

@TheAnalyticChristian

4 жыл бұрын

Marcel H. Thanks for watching and subscribing!

This may come up later in the discussion but one strong possibility that I have been mulling over is that Good Orderly Direction must be very cautious in order to avoid paradox. If evil can be assigned the qualities of disorder and confusion, then acts which would distort causality could be binding in a way that prevent more good and freedom than intervention would enable. In the naive examples of causality we often use to illustrate where a possible evil could be circumvented, we are limited to a very small slice of time and conception of possible consequence.

I'd always heard the different wills of God as "God's Perfect Will vs God's Permissive Will". I like alliteration

More awesome content! Well done

@TheAnalyticChristian

4 жыл бұрын

Fred H thanks for watching and supporting me!

If God has absolute foreknowledge of everything, why was he forced to put Job through all that just to prove something to Satan?

I'm confused about why the heavenly conflict is supposed to decisively prove God's love through God's adherence to a set of restrictions that require God to act in apparently unloving ways (e.g. not intervening to relieve suffering, say).

@jeremykeys7373

2 жыл бұрын

Reading the book will give you greater detail, there is only so much that can be explained in an interview. I suggest giving it a read if you have not, Peckham does more than an adequate job of giving solid justification as to why God does not (or better said, can not) intervene in some situations. The other point he makes is that just because we see some suffering occurring, how do we know that God has not intervened in other ways to stop much greater acts of evil from occurring. We simply do not see things how God sees them.

James R White of Alpha and Omega Ministries takes William Craig Lane to task on Molinism on a program within the last year. Of course, White is a determinist.

In your opinion is one reason why Calvinists seem to reject Divine Council view because of their rejection of libertarian free will and maybe the influence of Augustine who similarly did not favour Divine Council view?

@TheAnalyticChristian

4 жыл бұрын

Scott Thong that’s a good question. I hadn’t noticed a trend of Calvinists who reject the Divine Council. I’m pretty sure James White doesn’t accept the view...he interprets Psalm 82 differently, but have you found it common that they reject it? I would think maybe in large part they are unaware of it.

@scottthong9274

4 жыл бұрын

Crash Course Apologetics Perhaps just my own circle then

When are you going to make a new video?

@TheAnalyticChristian

4 жыл бұрын

Hey! I know it's been a while. Things have been super busy between getting my baby into a routine now that my wife has returned to work from maternity, and finishing up this semester of teaching. I'm currently grading finals. My goal is to have the next Pascal's Wager video by come out on December 29th. Do you prefer my animated videos over the interviews? Should I pick one over the other or do both? How frequently would you like to see them come out?

@thescapegoatmechanism8704

4 жыл бұрын

Crash Course Apologetics thanks for responding! Well, I don’t really like interviews with philosophy professors because most of them are just too dry. I get that they’re not entertainers, but Ive had too many boring professors to justify sitting through an hour long interview. If I really want to know what they have to say, I’ll just read their book. That’s just me, though. You do whatever works for you. I always like seeing original content from youtubers and I’m especially glad to see someone that’s pro-Pascal for a change. Lol I’ll look out for your video, then.

@TheAnalyticChristian

4 жыл бұрын

The Scapegoat Mechanism gotcha. thanks for the feedback. I’m trying to give determine what my viewers want more of or if they want both equally. I agree with you, interviews can be boring and that’s where I see my animated videos coming in. On the flip side, the interviews are live giving viewers the opportunity to interact with the scholars themselves. I am pro Pascal for sure haha. Hope to see you in the comments on my new video when it releases.

@TheAnalyticChristian

4 жыл бұрын

The Scapegoat Mechanism just out of curiosity what is your degree in? What got you interested in apologetics? How’d you find my tiny channel?

@thescapegoatmechanism8704

4 жыл бұрын

Crash Course Apologetics I have a BA in philosophy. Well, I’m actually not all that interested in contemporary apologetics. I prefer reading classic works that have more of a spiritual dimension to them and aren’t so hyper-rationalist like a lot of apologists these days. I suppose it was one of my professors that really sparked my interest in Phil of religion when we read Pascal and Nietzsche, and I’ve been hooked ever since. I think I was looking up videos on Pascal one day and I saw yours out of the hundreds that wasn’t just blindly criticizing him. Haha truly a needle in a haystack

Divine Council seems to be popping up a lot these days!

@TheAnalyticChristian

4 жыл бұрын

Scott Thong yep, I know I’ve heard Michael Heiser say somewhere that it touches every major Christian doctrine in some way. Had you heard of this theodicy before? What do you think of it?

@scottthong9274

4 жыл бұрын

Crash Course Apologetics I believe I have, but not in a very fleshed out way - a bit like how Divine - ah, excuse me, Heavenly Council 😜 - has always been dimly there in the background but Heiser’s work turns on the lights in the whole arena

The problem of evil is resolved around the achievement of the greater moral good.