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Festival of Thought 2018 Submitted by Wessel on Tuesday, 24 April 2018 - 21:53 Read time: 4 minutes Last week the Festival of Thought was hosted in Cape Town and Stellenbosch. The festival is a wonderful initiative by RZIM, aimed at students and the business world, to discuss the big questions in life, such as meaning and morality. With more than a dozen local and international speakers, and around 100 events across five metropolitans or campuses, this was a huge effort which was a wonderful opportunity for people to gain some insights into contemporary debates and engage with others in open, honest and civil discussion. Read more … Categories: Conferences Tags: festival of thought john lennox ravi zacharias michael ramsden greg fried free thinking open discussion dialogue pascal's wager ontological argument biblical theology exposition humanity Wessel's blog Add new comment	Good and Evil in Star Wars Submitted by Wessel on Wednesday, 11 April 2018 - 22:09 Read time: 8 minutes A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... there was perhaps the most famous story (with an ardent following) of science fantasy that was ever known! It is an epic tale of good versus evil. But, many people may not realise that it is not the kind of good, or a kind of evil, which they may intuitively have expected. Indeed, while it superficially looks like the stories of good and evil familiar to Western lore, the story of Star Wars is rooted in a much different tradition, where the concepts of good and evil have a unique origin and different meaning. Read more … Categories: In the Media Tags: star wars good evil buddhism emotions passion passions love hate anger compassion death Wessel's blog Add new comment
Equip 2018 Submitted by Wessel on Tuesday, 3 April 2018 - 23:04 Read time: 4 minutes From 29 March until 2 April 2018, I once again had the privilege to attend the Equip Easter Conference at the beautiful Rocklands in Simon's Town. Our speaker this year was Richard Coekin from Dundonald in London. Apart from his involvement with Dundonald, he is also the director of the Co-Mission Church Planting Initiative, which has done incredible work in some difficult mission fields. Read more … Categories: Conferences Tags: equip richard coekin evangelism jonah systematic theology poor poverty teaching simons town fish hoek Wessel's blog Add new comment	Responding to the Euthyphro Dilemma Submitted by Wessel on Sunday, 4 March 2018 - 21:40 Read time: 8 minutes Introduction The Euthyphro dilemma is an argument meant to illustrate a difficulty which theism faces. This difficulty is, from where does goodness come? If something is good because God decreed it as such, we are in a precarious situation where God can command something truly horrible as being good, such as murder or genocide. On the other hand, if God knows what is good from a transcendent source and simply relays it to us, then God is not all powerful, but Himself dependant on abstract, transcendent truths. The Euthyphro dilemma is the bane of Christian apologists. Not because it is an effective refutation of theism, but because it is a tired argument which has already been refuted many times. Yet, still, armchair anti-theists, and even philosophical scholars, believe that the Euthyphro dilemma is a death knell to theism1. In this article I aim to undertake to refute the Euthyphro dilemma. The refutation is not anything new, but I aim to do it in a way, possibly novel, where the originator of this argument is turned upon himself. Read more … Categories: Apologetics In the Media Tags: euthyphro euthyphro dilemma plato socrates plotinus euthydemus gorgias problem of evil privation privation of good false dilemma rhetoric neoplatonism xenophanes of colophon Wessel's blog Add new comment
L'Abri in South Africa Submitted by Wessel on Tuesday, 27 February 2018 - 08:14 Read time: 5 minutes L'Abri is in the process of establishing a presence in South Africa. To celebrate this, a few events were held over the weekend around Cape Town, and I was fortunate enough to be able to attend a couple; both small workshops. L'Abri South Africa will be based in Johannesburg. Read more … Categories: In the News Tags: l'abri francis schaeffer edith schaeffer monism dualism trinitarianism trinity buddism hinduism taoism confucianism switzerland ellis potter thorsten marbach spirituality worldview Wessel's blog Add new comment	Common Sense Submitted by Wessel on Saturday, 10 February 2018 - 17:25 Read time: 6 minutes Imagine living in a small, rural village. You are a subsistence farmer, growing vegetables, and have a couple of nice fruit trees. You also have a handful of livestock. In the middle of the village is a large piece of open land with juicy grass growing on it. Nobody is allowed to build there, because the leader of the village has decreed that this is common land. The intention is that everyone in the village graze their livestock on their own land, but because the properties are small, livestock can also graze on the common land to get enough food to be healthy. Read more … Categories: In the News Tags: tragedy of the commons prisoners dilemma cape town drought day zero water human nature human sinfulness Wessel's blog Add new comment

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