Author Archives: Dave Winstead

If you cannot attend your usual home church this coming Sunday, please use this Worship Service Plan to conduct and enjoy a service on your own. This Worship Service Plan is useful for anyone anywhere, whether individuals, shut-ins, your family gathered in the den, a nursing facility of sick & elderly, you and your neighbors sitting in the backyard, or any group of believers who share a need to gather and praise and worship The Lord God.

By Got Questions Occam’s Razor (or Ockham’s Razor), named after 14th-century logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham, is one of the most misunderstood and misused concepts in philosophy. Occam’s Razor can be stated this way: “Plurality ought never be posited without necessity.” This is really just a fancy way of saying, “Simpler is usually better.”Continue reading “5/29/2024 What Is Occam’s Razor?”

By Got Questions Objectivism can mean many different things, so examining it depends on what definition is used. Some of those interpretations are consistent with the Bible; others are not. Ayn Rand’s version of objectivism reaches some of the same conclusions as Judeo-Christianity, but for different reasons. Some of Rand’s views are patently unbiblical. Knowing theContinue reading “5/28/2024 What Is Objectivism?”

By Got Questions If something is objective, it has correspondence with reality. Objective truth is something that is true for everyone, whether they agree with it or not. At one time this was simply called “truth.” Objective is the opposite of subjective. If a person says, “The 1966 Ford Mustang is the coolest car ever made,” heContinue reading “5/27/2024 What Is Objective Truth?”

By Got Questions The philosophy of ethics is the study of how humans act and why they act the way they do. Metaethics is the study of the terms and metaphysical considerations of ethical concepts, and is usually too esoteric and academic to actually be useful. Applied ethics is at the other end of the spectrum; it is relevantContinue reading “5/26/2024 What Is Normative Ethics?”

By Got Questions A nontheist is someone who does not believe in God or gods. According to the construction of the words, atheist and nontheist mean exactly the same thing. Theists believe in God. The prefixes a- and non- are both negators; therefore, a-theists and non-theists share disbelief in God. However, language is dynamic, and connotations of certain words tend to change over time. TheContinue reading “5/25/2024 What Is Nontheism?”

If you cannot attend your usual home church this coming Sunday, please use this Worship Service Plan to conduct and enjoy a service on your own. This Worship Service Plan is useful for anyone anywhere, whether individuals, shut-ins, your family gathered in the den, a nursing facility of sick & elderly, you and your neighbors sitting in the backyard, or any group of believers who share a need to gather and praise and worship The Lord God.

By Got Questions When most people think of something as “nominal,” they think of a thing that exists in name only. For example, some countries might have an official state religion and citizens are thus “nominal” members of that religion—they are members in name only. Another example could be that a certain economic factor isContinue reading “5/22/2024 What Is Nominalism?”

By Got Questions Nihilism is a non-Christian belief that, in the end, “nothingness” prevails in a world that is totally meaningless. Nihilism teaches that God does not exist or that He is dead. Nihilism says there is no higher purpose in life, that life is simply futile. The word nihilism comes from nihil, a Latin root meaning “nothing”Continue reading “5/20/2024 What Is Nihilism?”

By Got Questions Neoplatonism is a modern term used to describe a particular line of Greek philosophy, which was most prevalent in the third through sixth centuries. Through philosophers such as Plotinus, Porphyry, and Proclus, the general ideas of Plato were applied in an effort to respond to the strength and success of Christianity. Neoplatonism contains elements similar to Gnosticism,Continue reading “5/19/2024 What Is Neoplatonism?”