On Monday 2 August at the University of Auckland Emeritus Professor of Philosophy Dr Raymond Bradley and Dr Matthew Flannagan (of this blog) debated the topic “Is God the Source of Morality? Is it rational to ground right and wrong in commands issued by God?” With a turnout of 400-500 people, this debate was the largest […]
Entries from August 4th, 2010
Joint Communique: Bradley v Flannagan Debate
August 4th, 2010 4 Comments
Tags: Debates · Matthew Flannagan · Raymond Bradley
Dissecting the Bradley v Flannagan Debate
August 2nd, 2010 40 Comments
We’re just in from the debate at Auckland University where Raymond Bradley and Matt debated “Is God the Source of Morality? Is it rational to ground right and wrong in commands issued by God?” and we see the discussion from those there has started in more than one place on the net – including here. […]
Tags: Debates · Glenn Peoples · Matthew Flannagan · Raymond Bradley
Contra Mundum: Did God Command Genocide in the Old Testament?
August 1st, 2010 147 Comments
Perhaps the most perplexing issue facing Christan believers is a series of jarring texts in the Old Testament. After liberating Israel from slavery in Egypt, the Israelites arrived on the edge of the promised land. The book of Deuteronomy records that God then commanded Israel to “destroy totally” the people occupying these regions (the Canaanites); […]
Tags: Alvin Plantinga · Canaanites · Contra Mundum · Investigate Magazine · James K. Hoffmeier · K Lawson Younger · Kenneth Kitchen · Old Testament Ethics
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
