by Karlo Broussard | Mar 16, 2021 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
When life is tough, we all have our coping mechanisms. Some are be based in reality, like friendships, and some are not, like drowning our sorrows in alcohol. For some atheists, religion, and in particular belief in God, is one of those coping mechanisms that isn’t...
by Karlo Broussard | Jul 28, 2020 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
St. Thomas Aquinas is famous for seeing the most mundane things in our human experience as starting points for reasoning to God’s existence. For example, in the first of his famous “Five Ways” he starts with motion (Summa Theologiae I:2:3). In the second, he starts...
by Karlo Broussard | May 18, 2020 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
John Calvin is famous for teaching that God doesn’t just permit moral evil, but he positively directs sinners to sin. Of “wicked” and “obstinate” men, Calvin claimed that [God] bends them to execute his judgments, just as if they carried their orders engraven on their...
by Karlo Broussard | Mar 5, 2020 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
There’s one thing that theists and atheists can agree on: God’s existence is not so obvious that everyone necessarily knows it. For many, God’s failure to make his existence obvious, as compared to the existence of a friend or colleague, creates a “knowledge gap” that...
by Karlo Broussard | Dec 31, 2019 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
Recently, we looked at an objection that argues God can’t be immutable and at the same time be the universal cause of temporal effects because that would entail God having to change in his acts—acting to cause one thing at one moment in time, ceasing that act at...
by Karlo Broussard | Oct 28, 2019 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
Atheists often claim that it’s contradictory for believers to assert that God is at the same time both the universal cause of all being and immutable. In other words, God can’t be changeless and at the same time changing, in the sense that he causes things to come...
