I am an orthodox Christian, ask me a question!

[Jon Paul]

Ok, my first question:

Do you believe the Bible (or anything else?) is evidence for God's existence, or do you believe in 'him' on blind faith?

EvF

I believe I am in right reason when I accept God's existence as truth. In the first run because I don’t believe anything else is a possibility, without logical self-contradiction. The denial of God’s existence else ultimately refutes its own epistemic foundation by rejecting an objective foundation and standard for logical and moral truth (God), thus leading inevitably to vicious subjectivism, by the contention that follows, which is that everything is just an abstraction of the chemical process of a brain – no chemical process is more right than the other, it simply is. The only way to avoid that is to posit one absolute mind (God) which is omniscient and infallible and thus provides our epistemic foundation and standard for objective truth.

I also believe natural theology establishes the existence of God as the pure actuality which is necessary for the actualization of any potentiality, and since we empirically observe the progressing actualization of potentialities by means of a causal regress to the very actuality of causality, this provides the basic foundation for the contention that God exists, because of our radical contingence. Monotheism is not supposed to be proposed, and then evidenced. It is supposed to be the key which fits into the lock we call reality. It is reality in its basic nature (temporality, causality, movement, impure actuality regressing to the actuality of causality regressing to pure actuality, order, telos, finite, contingency, consciousness) which makes it necessary to propose monotheism in the first run. The necessary preambles or epistemic foundations of faith are thus established, since the definition of God as “He who is” in the bible, or as Christ said, “Before Abraham was, I AM”, is consistent with the dogma of actus purus. God is the actualizing agent of causality, and therefore time: therefore he transcends it, and is outside of it. So I believe reason provides the foundation by which we comprehend revelation, and through revelation faith is thus formed.

Regards,
JP.