{"id":348,"date":"2008-09-22T15:48:23","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T19:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=348"},"modified":"2014-11-14T13:57:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T18:57:32","slug":"jesus-and-god-part-1-dale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/jesus-and-god-part-1-dale\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus and “god” – part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nDon’t just say ‘Jesus’, smartypants.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This series is about a guy, Jesus, and a word, “god”. Consider this argument:<\/p>\n

1. Jesus is divine.
\n2. There is only one god.
\n3. Therefore, Jesus is the one god.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This argument, as it stands, is invalid<\/a>. But, not to worry<\/strong>: when we add an obviously true premise, the resulting argument is valid<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1. Jesus is divine.
\n2. There is only one god.
\n3. Something is a god if and only if it is divine.
\n4. Therefore, Jesus is the one god.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The argument is valid, because if all the premises are true, then the conclusion must be true as well. But validity isn’t enough – lots of valid arguments are bad arguments<\/strong> (e.g. 1. The moon is made of cheese, 2. All things made of cheese are delicious. 3. Therefore, the moon is delicious.)<\/p>\n

So the question is: Is it not only valid, but also a sound<\/a> argument? <\/strong>It’ll be sound if all the premises are true.<\/p>\n

3 is true by definition. A divine thing just is a god. The terms “god” and “divine” are related like these pairs of terms are related: “human being”\/”human”, “cat”\/”feline”. The argument will be sound then, if both 1 and 2 are true as well. Are they?<\/strong> It would seem that both have impeccable biblical credentials.<\/p>\n

Next time: “Bad” arguments.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don’t just say ‘Jesus’, smartypants. This series is about a guy, Jesus, and a word, “god”. Consider this argument: 1. Jesus is divine. 2. There is only one god. 3. Therefore, Jesus is the one god. This argument, as it stands, is invalid. But, not to worry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,21,15,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apologetics","category-bible","category-christology","category-incarnation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6678,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions\/6678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}