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Actually, I'm not sure that it is a presupposition. At least, it does not function in my argument the way presuppositions typically do. What is a presupposition? It's an assumption or set of assumptions that you have in place (often unspoken) before you start forming an argument (using the word...

Yes, I do. The difference is in who is acting to start the knowledge train. In what I've said, God acts first by revealing Himself to us. If I say that I assume the Christian faith is true, then my belief is the starting-point. That is, I start it all off. So yes, I believe there is a very big...

Well, my starting point is not that Christianity is true. I am not presupposing Christianity. My starting point is that the Holy Spirit (the true starting point: God makes the first move here) has convinced me that the Bible is true. The logical direction here is from God to man. The...

Ok, where is the circularity? What's the chain?

So you would say it's not circular? Or do you think it is? If you think it is circular, where is the circularity? Iron sharpens iron, so believers debating other believers can be a healthy thing. When it comes to evangelism, the Holy Spirit is the primary mover. He works, typically, through...

So, how would you compare your (clearly) circular chain with this reasoning: 1. God the Holy Spirit convinces believers that the Bible is true. 2. Therefore, the believer, by definition, believes Christianity is true. 3. Because the believer believes Christianity is true, he must believe all...

Can you please elaborate? If it's circular, then there must be some chain of reasoning that goes like this: A implies B, B implies C, and C implies A. It might be a longer chain, or a smaller one. But what are the steps in the circular chain?

I would definitely say (of course) that the Reformed church has the best Trinitarian understanding of salvation. Salvation is a Trinitarian thing: the Father ordains what is to happen, as well as sends the Son and the Spirit. The Son made the perfect sacrifice of a perfect life, death...

Much better is LibreOffice. It's a full-featured office suite, compatible with MS Office, and completely free. It has a lot more features than Google Docs, though I will say this for Google Docs: you can have multiple people editing the same file at the same time with Google Docs, which is a...

The OPC vows of membership are as follows: 1. Do you believe the Bible, consisting of the Old and New Testaments, to be the Word of God, and its doctrine of salvation to be the perfect and only true doctrine of salvation? 2. Do you admit you are a sinner and hating your sinfulness, do you...

My denomination (the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, or OPC, or Only Perfect Church as we jokingly call it sometimes) is fearless of the truth, and encourages everyone to think critically about anything, though we would encourage that questioning to be sincere and respectful. We regard the Bible...

Yeah. Sounds like you need a 2TB SSD. Word to the wise: NEVER defragment a SSD. Turn off the Defrag service in Windows.

Make sure the Amazon reviews you look at are from confirmed purchases. These days, a lot of companies, it seems, are inflating the Amazon reviews by hiring people to write 5-star reviews. Not a very ethical practice. In any case, SSD is definitely the way to go for your main OS drive. Put all...

Ok, so forgive me for being the annoying three-year-old here, but why can we effectively communicate with each other as reasoning beings? What is reason, and why is it that we can reason?

Sure. But from what basis? Using what assumptions? Everyone has to make assumptions. Your statement implies assumptions, such as that it's even possible to demonstrate something rationally and logically to someone else. You're assuming rationality and the existence of logic. Why is that a thing...

Today is National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day in the USA, and for the occasion, my wife posted a song that she and I co-wrote to commemorate our two miscarriages. She wrote the poetry, and I wrote and performed the music. My brother-in-law Justin did the audio and video editing. Enjoy!

I recommend the Lenovo ThinkPad 11e. My wife has one, and my work bought me one at my request. They're built like tanks. It's kind of the Chromebook idea in some ways - very portable, small size, well-built. But it runs a serious OS: Windows 10 Professional (Home versions of Windows are worth...

The difficulty with Chromebooks is the apps. I am a computer power user, and I run things like LaTeX (yes, there's OverLeaf, but it's still not as good as a natively-running version), and full office suite (either MS Office or LibreOffice), that you simply can't run on a Chromebook. Sure, it'll...

Yes, the Jehovah's Witnesses created that "version" of the "Bible" to serve their own heretical ends. Only it doesn't do the job very well. For example, their famous translation of John 1:1: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god." doesn't...

I like the ESV myself.