No problems, no problems, only solutions.

No problems, no problems, only solutions.

No problems, only solutions. We watch the New York Times quite often because they have some pretty good theology

in there from time to time Bill or at least they address

a question of God. This is an article in New York Times by Peter Adertam, a

professor of philosophy and he calls it a God problem. Now, you've seen this article and

actually wrote a question of the week on it. Question of the week number 6 to 8.

reasonable faith.org.

Go to question number 628 and get some detail, but let's go over this just a little bit.

He says, if you look up God in a dictionary, the first entry you will a wise and powerful creator of the universe.

Certainly, if applied to non-Western context,

the definition would be puzzling.

But on a Western context,

this is how philosophers have traditionally understood God. In fact this

conception of God is sometimes known as the God of the philosophers. Do you agree with that

Bill? Yes I think that this is an acceptable working definition.

As a philosopher myself, he continues, I'd like to focus on a specific question,

does the idea of a morally perfect all-powerful, all-knowing

God make sense? Does it hold together when we examine it logically?

So what he's raising here is the question known among philosophers of religion as the coherence of theism.

Is theism a coherent view?

This is the area of philosophy of religion that I have chosen to specialize in and so over the decades I have written

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