Maybe this would be more appropriate for an Adult Sunday School series on faith + science, moreso than from the pulpit

These conversations are so difficult because so few people are well-trained in both theology/biblical studies AND science/quantum physics. Alister McGrath comes to mind, but there aren’t enough interdisciplinary researchers in this field.

I wonder if this science really has ramifications for our theology of agape love or not. While the science might give a physical/mechanistic explanation of love, I’m not sure this challenges/affects our theology of what love is as Christians.

That’s a good distinction Aiden. God’s love is categorically different than human love independent of God’s love

That’s a fair point Austin

Epistemic humility is a virtue: both for Christians and non-Christians

Good observation, this helpfully gets at the fact that even science involves presuppositions/non-empirical assumptions

Agreed! Hearing the stories of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Corrie Ten Boom made a deep impact on me when I was a kid

That would be an interesting study

That’s a long time!

Thanks for the book suggestion!

I think Aquinas/RCs would largely agree; nature can reveal that there is a creator, but only revelation can reveal the unique identity of that creator as trinity

Intelligent life vs. un-intelligent life is a good distinction to make when having this discussion

Well-put, Rich!

Well said Rich!

Cool to see how this debate in modern science pretty directly correlates to debates from church history!

Very interesting article. I wonder if the brain studies could be viewed as descriptive (this is what happens in the brain when free will is operative in decision-making), rather than prescriptive (this naturalistic brain process determines how one will choose)? If so, that would seem to change the terms of the debate

I appreciate the depth of Scripture listed in the theology section. The Psalms play off of one another so well on the topic of forgiveness, and really speak to the human heart.

This is an interesting way of typologizing barriers to forgiveness. I wonder which of these three “bitterness” would fall under? That was the first one that can to my mind when I thought of barriers to forgiveness

Well said Rich! Col 3:23-24 is a great verse on this