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  • The Strange Reasons Mindshift Thinks God Can't Exist

    The Strange Reasons Mindshift Thinks God Can't Exist
    Jun 16 2026

    ​ @MindShift-Brandon YouTube Channel is back with what he believes are several reasons the Christian God cannot exist. This time, the discussion focuses on divine emotions, jealousy, regret, and even memory in Heaven.

    If God experiences jealousy, regret, or other emotions, does that make Him less than perfect? Does divine regret imply a lack of foresight? And if people remember loved ones who are in Hell, can Heaven truly be a place of joy? In this episode, we examine Mindshift's arguments and explain why we believe they ultimately fail to undermine the Christian conception of God.

    Watch Mindshift's original video here: https://youtu.be/yzg9CLwRIx0?si=5JecRoB69a87e_Cj

    ➡️ CHAPTERS ⬅️

    00:00 Introduction

    01:00 A New Argument Against God's Existence?

    04:35 God and His Emotions

    10:35 God Lacked Foresight?

    22:14 Is Jealousy Always an Unhealthy Emotion?

    33:29 The Truth About Divine Regret

    48:11 Is It Wrong to Claim Anthropomorphism Language About God?

    54:06 Mindshift's False Dichotomy Concerning Heaven

    1:05:48 Is To Remember Suffering to Suffer? Memory in Heaven

    1:26:04 Matching Mindshift's Energy

    1:30:07 Concluding Thoughts

    Topics discussed include God's emotions, divine jealousy, divine regret, anthropomorphic language in Scripture, Christian theology, philosophy of religion, Heaven and Hell, memory in Heaven, and arguments for God's existence.

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    #Apologetics #Christianity #Theology #PhilosophyOfReligion #Mindshift #God #Heaven #Hell #ChristianApologetics #FreeThinkingMinistries
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    1 ora e 31 min
  • Dr. Ryan Mullins Says William Lane Craig's Molinism Is Incoherent—But Is It?

    Dr. Ryan Mullins Says William Lane Craig's Molinism Is Incoherent—But Is It?
    Jun 9 2026

    Molinism is one of the most influential models for reconciling human libertarian freedom and divine sovereignty. While Dr. William Lane Craig is among its most well-known defenders, Dr. Ryan T. Mullins recently argued that Craig's particular articulation of Molinism may contain an incoherence and proposed a possible solution. In this episode, Tyson James of Sound Faith Consulting and Reasonable Faith joins us to examine the debate, unpack the philosophical issues at stake, and evaluate whether the alleged contradiction is genuine or whether William Lane Craig's formulation of Molinism remains coherent.

    Check out Ryan's work at: https://www.rtmullins.com/

    Specific podcast referenced: https://www.rtmullins.com/podcast/episode/de00b8b6/ep-194-molinism

    Check out Sound Faith: https://soundfaithconsulting.com/

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    ➡️ CHAPTERS ⬅️

    00:00 Introducing Dr. Mullins and Tyson

    07:45 What Are the Strengths of Molinism?

    13:30 Handling the Grounding Objection

    30:00 Would God's Knowledge of His Own Counterfactuals Lead to Fatalism or Undermine Freedom?

    46:24 The Issue with Logical Moments Prior to Creation

    58:09 Ryan Mullins' Challenge: Is William Lane Craig's Molinism Incoherent?

    1:13:00 Dr. Mullins Offers a Solution

    1:28:08 Parting Words and Concluding Thoughts

    ➡️ TOPICS DISCUSSED ⬅️

    Molinism, William Lane Craig, Ryan T. Mullins, middle knowledge, libertarian free will, divine sovereignty, divine foreknowledge, counterfactuals of creaturely freedom, the grounding objection, fatalism, providence, logical moments, Christian philosophy, theology, and apologetics.

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    1 ora e 31 min
  • Alex O'Connor vs William Lane Craig | What Really Happened?

    Alex O'Connor vs William Lane Craig | What Really Happened?
    Jun 2 2026

    Recently, Dr. William Lane Craig and @CosmicSkeptic met in England for a major discussion on arguments for God's existence, the Kalam Cosmological Argument, the beginning of the universe, and the problem of animal suffering. In this video, Dr. Tim Stratton and Josh Klein are joined by Tyson James (founder of ⁨@soundfaithconsulting⁩ and connected with ⁨@ReasonableFaithOrg⁩ leadership) to analyze 7 major segments from the discussion and explain what REALLY happened. Together, they examine Alex O'Connor's objections, William Lane Craig's responses, and whether Alex's arguments against Christianity and theism ultimately succeed.

    Topics include:

    Hilbert's Hotel (actual and potential infinity)

    The beginning of the universe Time and causation

    Truth-making and correspondence theory

    Animal suffering Consciousness and human pain

    The hiddenness of God

    Full Conversation on ⁨@CosmicSkeptic⁩'s Channel: https://youtu.be/OEBTtMjm_4U?si=5-lWaNz9qIw8OayE

    Full Conversation on ⁨@PremierUnbelievable⁩'s Channel: https://youtu.be/TAW6-_L4z9M?si=lH6ABV65ZzMwoV2d

    Tim's Article Responding to Alex's Animal Suffering Argument: https://www.freethinkingministries.com/post/animal-suffering-alex-o-connor-and-defeating-defeaters

    "Animal Pain Revisited" (article referenced by Tyson):https://www.reasonablefaith.org/writings/question-answer/animal-pain-re-visited

    The "Patient R" Study: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3425501/

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    ➡️ CHAPTERS ⬅️

    00:00 Preliminary Thoughts on Alex O'Connor

    02:50 A Healthy Respect for ⁨@CosmicSkeptic⁩

    08:13 Dismantling Hilbert's Hotel?

    16:51 Updating Our Intuitions — But With GOOD Reason

    25:50 On the Beginning of the Universe

    39:16 The First Change Argument

    41:01 Alex's Bold Time Argument

    50:17 Truth-Making and Correspondence Theory

    1:07:16 The Animal Suffering Objection

    1:15:35 Steel-Manning Alex's Objection

    1:20:49 Dismantling the Objection With Reasonable Hope

    1:28:33 The Difference Between Animal and Human Pain

    1:35:48 Higher-Order Thought and the Brain

    1:41:24 Patient R and Alex's Misreading of the Data

    1:46:37 The Uniqueness of Human Pain and Why Christianity Makes the Most Sense of It

    1:53:00 How Impactful Are Alex's Objections?

    1:54:13 Is Alex O'Connor REALLY a Non-Resistant Nonbeliever?

    1:56:31 Concluding Thoughts

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    #Apologetics #Christianity #WilliamLaneCraig #AlexOConnor #CosmicSkeptic #Debate #Atheism #Theism #FreeThinking #KalamCosmologicalArgument
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    1 ora e 58 min
  • If Dogs Go to Heaven… Why Not My Child? The Question That Broke a Mother's Heart

    If Dogs Go to Heaven… Why Not My Child? The Question That Broke a Mother's Heart
    May 26 2026
    It's Question Time, and today's episode features an engaging question from one of our listeners based on Tim's argument that animals (including beloved pets) go to heaven. If that's true, says this listener, then how is God good if my child who I love MORE than my pet might be going to Hell? Josh and Tim tackle this philosophically, theologically, and pastorally. Want to ask a question? Go to our website: https://www.freethinkingministries.co... Check out Tim's Second Edition of Mere Molinism: https://us.amazon.com/Freedom-Divine-... Check out Josh's Novel: https://us.amazon.com/Fracture-Joshua... Tim's Article and Argument for pets going to heave: https://www.freethinkingministries.co... The full e-mail: I love my dog, but I love my child more. The following may reveal my own selfishness in that I don't want my child to choose what he desires (a life without Christ). Though I believe in freewill, I am almost to the point where I wish God did not grant it. I'd rather have my child "a robot" in Heaven with God and me than have him freely choose his eternal destination. I am concerned for a day when my son's sin takes him to the point of a totally seared conscience. Though my son is not a drug addict, a drug addict gets to the point of addiction when he knows not what he does in harming his own body, mind, etc. Isn't any sin this way? We know not what we do. We, as fallible creatures, don't know what's best for us. Only our Creator knows this, and yet He allows us to choose wrongly?!? Why?!? Why would God take an animal to heaven while allowing a mother or father who would die for their child (a human being made in God's image, unlike an animal, and "worth more than the birds of the air") to be separated from him for eternity? It is said that to have loved and then lost is better than to have never loved at all, but I'm not so sure right now. Pictures and memories of my son's "innocence" in childhood haunt me. Yet some say God wipes away such memories in Heaven, but don't you think we will know more, not less, in Eternity? To wipe that child from one's memory seems diminishing. Even to suggest annihilation (a theory I don't favor) would not soften the wounds of loss to a mother's heart. No longer existing seems to delegitimize any life. Even the truth of someday having a better understanding of God's holiness and justice regarding my own flesh and blood is gut wrenching (I agree we all deserve Hell). Why are we to lay down our lives for sinners now in reaching them for Christ but will eventually rejoice in jubilation when the time of their destruction comes? Why would God have fashioned such motherly sentiments to unconditionally love and sacrificially nurture if we were to suffer this pain of eternal separation? If God loves me and if God knew my child would not follow Him, why did He bring about a world allowing him to be created? Or to survive infancy? Theoretically, even abortion (God forbid!) would have been a better outcome as, if I'm correct in my theology, such would eventually reunite us. Is abortion a virtue in that all babes are saved from damnation? God forgive the thought! We are told to be fruitful and multiply, but why even risk having children if there's a possibility of having even one child…or grandchild or great grandchild or a great-great separated from you forever? Obedience beyond understanding? I don't want one from my family tree or one acquaintance or even one stranger to be lost! The only remedy I see to this scenario as we are to love even our enemies is universal reconciliation, also a theory I do not favor...because of free will! Can you help me with these excruciating dilemmas? For my sanity's sake I have to believe all my children will be with God in eternity, but since I don't believe universalism is biblical, what of those others who will be separated eternally from loved ones? Is the only answer to trust God? Thank you greatly for your time; I appreciate any help you may provide this hurting mama. ➡️ CHAPTERS ⬅️ 00:00 Introduction 04:00 What Led to An Argument About Animals Going to Heaven? 05:35 The Reasonable Hope That Pets Go To Heaven Argument 11:00 Introducing Kim's E-mail - I Kind of Wish My Child Was a Robot 16:48 Why Would God Take an Animal and not my Son? 38:55 Will We Not Remember Pain In Heaven? 47:52 We Will Rejoice with Jubilation When People Go to Hell? 53:13 Why Would God Give Me A Child He KNOWS Will Reject Him? 1:04:00 Why Even Risk Having Children If They COULD Go to Hell? 1:10:30 Is Universalism the Only REAL Hope? 1:19:23 Concluding Thoughts ➡️ SOCIALS ⬅️ Website: https://freethinkingministries.com F acebook: / freethinkinc Instagram: / freethinkinc X: https://x.com/freethinkmin TikTok: / freethinkinc #Apologetics #FreeThinking #Christianity
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    1 ora e 21 min
  • Mere Molinism 2nd Edition Is HERE — What Changed? | LIVE

    Mere Molinism 2nd Edition Is HERE — What Changed? | LIVE
    May 19 2026

    It is FINALLY here! The second edition ofHuman Freedom, Divine Knowledge, and Mere Molinism, Second Edition: A Biblical, Historical, Theological, and Philosophical Analysis is LIVE on Amazon and anywhere you purchase books. While there are still a few edits to fix (we will speak about that in the livestream) this soft launch live stream will focus on the changes, new debates, and extended edition that the second edition puts forward. Join us and bring your questions!

    Purchase book here: https://us.amazon.com/Freedom-Divine-Knowledge-Molinism-Second/dp/B0GYZV33PD/

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  • Are Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens Right? Testing Their Claims with Reason and Evidence

    Are Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens Right? Testing Their Claims with Reason and Evidence
    May 12 2026

    It seems our world is constantly moving towards conspiracy. Some are proven, others are not. How do we, as Christians, apply reason and sound theology without dismissing questions out of hand? Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens stand as the most prominent figures of the conspiracy laden right. Josh and Tim take a look at their claims, expose their tactics and encourage Colossians 2 thinking to stay above the fray.

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    Related Videos:

    Tucker's Theology: https://youtu.be/eW8GcBP8CwE

    Should Christians Support Israel: https://youtu.be/rkF1sH-f3oo

    Seth Dillon on Candace Owens: https://youtu.be/zyO1hDHDE3c

    Our Video on Charlie Kirk conspiracy theories: https://youtu.be/z5uHYULpC48

    Related Articles:

    https://www.freethinkingministries.com/post/why-christians-should-support-israel-but-not-blindly

    https://www.freethinkingministries.com/post/lightning-heifers-eclipses-and-the-end-of-time

    Check out the second edition of Mere Molinism: https://us.amazon.com/Freedom-Divine-Knowledge-Molinism-Second/dp/B0GYZV33PD/

    ➡️ CHAPTERS ⬅️

    00:00 Introduction and Mere Molinism Second Edition!

    02:50 Focusing on Truth Rather Than Tribe

    08:38 The Allure of Secret Knowledge (Colossians 2)

    14:11 Cynicism as a Response to Broken Institutions

    16:24 Tucker: Claims of Hidden Demonic Influence

    23:53 Tucker: "Institutions Are Liars" and Historical Examples (Pearl Harbor)

    27:23 Candace: "We Don't Know, but We Know" Epistemology

    33:34 Megyn Kelly: Claims About Islam and Israeli Propaganda (Analysis)

    37:05 Candace: Always "So Close" to the Truth (But Never Arriving)

    45:24 Tucker: The Motte-and-Bailey Pattern in Institutional Critique

    56:43 Evaluating Claims: Who, What, Where, Why

    1:00:44 Letting Your "Heroes" Be Fallible

    1:06:20 Candace: Commit to a Process, Not a Conclusion

    1:11:31 Tucker: Implied Spiritual Claims, Followed by Plausible Deniability

    1:14:05 Concluding Thoughts

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  • Why the Pro-Life Movement Is Losing the Messaging Battle (And How to Fix It)

    Why the Pro-Life Movement Is Losing the Messaging Battle (And How to Fix It)
    May 5 2026

    What's happening to the pro-life movement after Roe v. Wade was overturned—and why is public opinion shifting toward pro-choice? In this podcast, Dr Tim Stratton and Josh Klein break down the messaging crisis in the pro-life movement, examine recent data trends, and discuss how churches, leaders, and legislation (including Nebraska efforts) play a critical role moving forward.

    Articles from Josh Referenced on program:

    https://www.freethinkingministries.com/post/moloch-bruised-but-not-defeated https://www.freethinkingministries.com/post/after-roe-countering-common-attacks

    Gospel Coalition Articles Referenced:

    2022 Article: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/compassion-over-culture-war/

    2026 Article: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/pro-life-kids-2026/

    Choose Life Now Initiative: https://chooselifenow.net/the-initiative/

    ➡️ CHAPTERS ⬅️

    00:00 Introduction

    01:05 Abortion is NOT Just a Political Matter

    06:24 What Alarming Trends Have We Found After Roe?

    14:27 Culture War or Truth A False Dichotomy

    19:12 A Lesson from John 8

    22:41 What Role Should Pastors Play When It Comes to Pro-Life?

    27:05 A New Nebraska Pro-Life Amendment - How Do we Navigate?

    33:32 Fixing Wording In Current Amendment

    39:16 Outlawing Abortion is Not JUST About Limiting Abortion

    41:58 A Message to Pastors in Nebraska

    43:09 Don't Overstate The Case

    46:25 Concluding Thoughts

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    47 min
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson vs Charles Liu on Free Will: Why Both Are Wrong

    Neil deGrasse Tyson vs Charles Liu on Free Will: Why Both Are Wrong
    Apr 28 2026

    Dr. Tim Stratton and Josh Klein are back and have Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson and Dr. Charles Liu on the docket. Recently the two colleagues had a friendly discussion concerning the existence of Free Will on the @StarTalk podcast. Tyson doubts the existence of Free Will but Liu tentatively embraces it. However, they BOTH get some important metaphysics wrong. Dr. Tim and Josh take a look and offer their own perspective on the episode.

    Watch the full clip: https://youtu.be/LXvv6CbGg8A?si=I-m9ZguJr3q0OCZU

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    ➡️ CHAPTERS ⬅️

    00:00 Introduction

    01:45 Defining Metaphysics

    04:50 Defining Free Will

    07:11 Stochastic Uncertainty, Chaos and Free Will

    13:11 Influences Do Not Equal Causes

    16:25 Do I Have the Freedom to Reach True Conclusions about Reality?

    22:31 The Ability to Prepare Implies Free Will

    32:45 Knowledge Cannot Cause Actions Nor Activate Free Will

    39:04 Neil's Position on Free Will is Nonsensical

    52:28 Charles' Position Has No Grounding

    57:43 Why The Texas Shooter Example Actually Undermines Determinism

    1:06:03 The Perimeter Of Ignorance Undermined

    1:13:57 Concluding Thoughts

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