Concepts, The Immaterial, Rationality, Metaphysics and Epistemology #madebyjimbob #philosophy #christianity #metaphysics #debate

What's your name? Tim. If I asked you Tim, you believe truth exists? Yes. It does, right? Does truth exist the same way this microphone exists or a different way? Different way. Okay. Would you say the microphones concrete? It's material. And you say truth is not concrete? Yes. Would you agree that non-concrete things in this case truth are abstract? Yes. Would you say abstract things are conceptual? Yes. Would you say conceptual things require a mind? Yes. Do humans discover truth? I think so. Okay. So if humans discover truth, truth has a type of mind-dependent ontology that comes before humans. So we start there. If there's a mind that exists before all human minds, we're already halfway to God. Okay. Now we go to what type of mind? Would you agree that truth is absolute, objective, and universal? Yes. Okay. So you think it would be a big jump for me to say, if truth is conceptual, universal, absolute, and objective, that it would require a universal, absolute mind. It would require something beyond our understanding. That's good enough for me. But then the descriptor with religions as are how we define what that thing is. That's fine. I'm totally fine with accepting this as a bridge argument that would have to lead to filter down to a more specific God. That's why religion now is more broad, right? I go from the broader claim. What I've done here is I gotten you to admit through just a simple series of questions that I've necessitated a very specific kind of mind that precedes hours to justify transcendental things that are not found in nature. So the next question would be for another debate. Who is this mind? Right. And obviously there's many different religions out here. That's right. Not universal agreement. Yes. Go to Divine Liturgy. [APPLAUSE]