Possible Worlds
In the movie, Next, Nicholas Cage plays a man who has the ability to perceive future events. Here is a section of the movie where Cage’s character is attempting to thwart a future event (don’t worry, this isn’t a plot spoiler, the movie is still worth watching) by examining all the possible outcomes of his [...]
Counterfactuals are statements about “what might have been” regarding an event in time had circumstances been different.1 Counterfactual statements are characterized by the conditional keywords “if-then”, as in “if Obama had not raised the national debt to record levels, unemployment would have been much higher.” The “counter” part of a “counterfactual” statement is that such [...]
Earlier I posted a portion of a conversation I recently had with a friend (Mike) regarding salvation’s availability. Here is the continuation of that conversation (reposted with premission) where our conversation logically turns to whether everyone has the ability to accept the offer of salvation if it were freely offered. Mike: I see your questions1, [...]
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