Papers by Jeff Grupp
Metaphysica, Sep 1, 2021
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Philosophy and Theology, 2021
An analysis of Scripture uncovers a new model of God’s election and predestination of souls, whic... more An analysis of Scripture uncovers a new model of God’s election and predestination of souls, which fits under the umbrella of the Calvinist theologies, but where this model involves an answer to the long-standing question of why God chose some, rather than all. It will be explored how before souls were elected (or condemned), God looked at them and knew them in a pre-election state, which God used to predestine each soul in physical reality. This analysis reveals why it could be no other way but where God only would choose some, rather than all souls during the physical embodiment stage of the soul, and the vexing centuries-old Calvinist question of why God elected some not all has an answer.
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Axiomathes, 2006
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I introduce the implantation argument, a new argument for the existence of God. Spatiotemporal ex... more I introduce the implantation argument, a new argument for the existence of God. Spatiotemporal extensions believed to exist outside of the mind, composing an external physical reality, cannot be composed of either atomlessness (infinite divisibility, atomless gunk), or of Democritean atoms (extended simples), and therefore the inner experience of an external reality containing spatiotemporal extensions believed to exist outside of the mind does not represent the external reality (inner mind does not represent external, mind-independent, reality), the mind is a mere cinematic-like mindscreen (a mindscreen simulation), implanted into the mind by a creator-God. It will be shown that only a creator-God can be the implanting creator of the mindscreen simulation (the creator of reality), and other simulation theories, such as Bostrom’s famous account, that do not involve a creator-God as the mindscreen simulation creator, involve a reification fallacy.
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An analysis of Scripture uncovers a new model of God’s election and predestination of souls, whic... more An analysis of Scripture uncovers a new model of God’s election and predestination of souls, which fits under the umbrella of the Calvinist theologies, but where this model involves an answer to the long-standing question of why God chose some, rather than all. It will be explored how before souls were elected (or condemned), God looked at them and knew them in a pre-election state, which God used to predestine each soul in physical reality. This analysis reveals why it could be no other way but where God only would choose some, rather than all souls during the physical embodiment stage of the soul, and the vexing centuries-old Calvinist question of why God elected some not all has an answer.
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Metaphysica, 2021
I introduce the implantation argument, a new argument for the existence of God. Spatiotemporal ex... more I introduce the implantation argument, a new argument for the existence of God. Spatiotemporal extensions believed to exist outside of the mind, composing an external physical reality, cannot be composed of either atomlessness (infinite divisibility, atomless gunk), or of Democritean atoms (extended simples), and therefore the inner experience of an external reality containing spatiotemporal extensions believed to exist outside of the mind does not represent the external reality (inner mind does not represent external, mind-independent, reality), the mind is a mere cinematic-like mindscreen (a mindscreen simulation), implanted into the mind by a creator-God. It will be shown that only a creator-God can be the implanting creator of the mindscreen simulation (the creator of reality), and other simulation theories, such as Bostrom’s famous account, that do not involve a creator-God as the mindscreen simulation creator, involve a reification fallacy.
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A narrow strand of Friedrich Jacobi’s theology is analyzed, involving his seemingly inane thesis ... more A narrow strand of Friedrich Jacobi’s theology is analyzed, involving his seemingly inane thesis that feeling is faith, which is identical to reason, and is therefore the primary tool for analyzing and understanding reality. Surprising evidence is however found in Jacobian theology to verify this thesis with surprising strength. If correct, this thesis would undermine the commonly-held thesis that faith and feeling are inferior to science, logic, and intellection.
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Axiomathes, 2006
Mereological nihilism is the philosophical position that there are no items that have parts. If t... more Mereological nihilism is the philosophical position that there are no items that have parts. If there are no items with parts then the only items that exist are partless fundamental particles, such as the true atoms (also called philosophical atoms) theorized to exist by some ancient philosophers, some contemporary physicists , and some contemporary philosophers. With several novel arguments I show that mereological nihilism is the correct theory of reality. I will also discuss strong similarities that mereological nihilism has with empirical results in quantum physics. And I will discuss how mereological nihilism vindicates a few other theories, such as a very specific theory of philosophical atomism, which I will call quantum abstract atomism. I will show that mereological nihilism also is an interpretation of quantum mechanics that avoids the problems of other interpretations, such as the widely known, metaphysically generated, quantum paradoxes of quantum physics, which ironically are typically accepted as facts about reality. I will also show why it is very surprising that mereological nihilism is not a widely held theory, and not the premier theory in philosophy.
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GOD-FAITH: Discovering the Pure Logic Built into the Fabric of Realtiy, 2019
The Biblical definition of "faith" is analyzed, where it is found that there is quite surprising ... more The Biblical definition of "faith" is analyzed, where it is found that there is quite surprising confusion among both Christians and atheists as to what faith is, in Biblical terms. It will be claimed that Biblical faith is a sort of constant communion with Christ (in direct awareness). With this definition it is further found that faith "information" is not scientific, logical, or mathematical information, but rather is only a sort of supernatural "information", or intimacy, directly implanted into a human mind and heart by God: faith is a third type of information available to a human, and different from the other two types of information that humans usually entertained (reason and sense information). Since atheists (and Christians) typically describe Christianity in terms of reason or empirical information, they therefore misrepresent what Christianity actually is: transcendent of reason and empirical information.
This article later became a chapter in my recent book, God-Faith: Discovering the Pure Logic Built into the Fabric of Reality.
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PLEASE NOTE: a more developed version of this paper is forthcoming in the journal Philosophy and ... more PLEASE NOTE: a more developed version of this paper is forthcoming in the journal Philosophy and Theology (Marquette U.).
Synopsis: A new theological interpretation of Calvinist unconditional election and predestination theology is developed, answering the long-standing question of why God chose some, rather than all. The word “foreknowledge” is typically believed to denote future knowledge about the nature of the human in physical reality (in chronological terms, God having awareness of the human soul at all times, including times future from its origination-point), but I will find that “foreknowledge” originally meant initial knowledge of the soul, the moment of its creation. Further, Romans 8:28-30 and 1 Peter 1:2 are focused on to show that the specific mechanics of what the word “foreknowledge” involves in Scripture reveal that God had awareness of all human souls after they were created but also before God elected souls. This pre-election knowledge of the soul God had can indicate why God only could choose some, rather than all souls, and the vexing centuries-old question of Calvinist unconditional election finally has an answer.
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Drafts by Jeff Grupp
Novel arguments are given establishing that a human being cannot consist of, and persist as, a mi... more Novel arguments are given establishing that a human being cannot consist of, and persist as, a mind that is representationally experiencing an external physical reality via a brain-system that produces televisual mindscreen consciousness (moment-to-moment self-aware picture-screen mind's eye experience). And novel logical deductions are given that establish simulation theory as the suitable philosophy which can explain our existence, and that establish that a Creator-GOD (a creator of mindscreen experience) must be exist to originate the self-aware mindscreen. Also, the idea that simulation theory is a Christian theology is introduced. This paper was written in 2012-2013, in preparation for a colloquial talk I delivered while I was teaching at the University of Michigan - Dearborn.
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Thesis Chapters by Jeff Grupp
MA Thesis, 2023
A novel eschatology and soteriology will be introduced, where it is found that a literalist readi... more A novel eschatology and soteriology will be introduced, where it is found that a literalist reading of Scripture reveals that GOD (who I refer to as the Eschaton Fire) will save all condemned and unchosen human souls that were ever created at the Eschaton, by immolating them in His Consuming Fire at the Eschaton. It will be found that Scripture involves the annihilation view of consciousness and the soul for those who are unchosen, but where this annihilation occurs before the Eschaton, as Scripture indicates, and not after the commencement of the Eschaton, as annihilation theology standardly involves. Scriptural evidence will be used to verify that the popular, traditional view of hell (where GOD supposedly torturers His unchosen creations horrifically, forever) does not exist in the Bible, since instead, Scripture reveals that before the Eschaton, in the interval from the point of body death, and to the Eschaton resurrection of all, any unchosen souls are annihilated (destruction and nonexistence of consciousness and/or soul), before being brought back to life, back into existence, at the Eschaton, in order to be immolated by GOD and thus saved everlastingly. (For those who are not adherents of annihilation theology, Calvinist universal salvation does not depend on annihilationism, as the reader will see below, and the reader can proceed without expecting that endorsing soul-annihilation is required to understand evangelical Calvinist universal salvation. But it is contended in this thesis that Scripture points to the aforementioned pre-Eschaton annihilation, as will be shown.) The unchosen are immolated in GOD, which is the Eschaton event, and this Refining Fire, this Consuming Fire, or Lake of Fire, is a baptism of Fire, giving the free gift of salvation at the Eschaton to all unchosen/condemned, by the GOD (YHWH) of infinite love. A key ingredient of Calvinist Universal Salvation is that hitherto the Lake of Fire has been confused into being imagined to be either identical to the traditional, popular view of hell, or some sort of second hell-like scenario after the heavens and earth pass away, but it will be shown that Scripture states that (1) all underworld regions (Hades, hell, etc.) are ended at the Eschaton (heavens and earth pass away), and further that (2) the Lake of Fire is described in Scripture as identical to GOD—where specifically, GOD, the Lake of Fire, is identical to, equal to, the Eschaton Fire, which saves all the condemned. Showing that GOD is equal to the Lake of Fire is verified by showing that Scripture involves ascribing the qualities of GOD—and that only GOD can have—also to the Lake of Fire, such as that both GOD and the Lake of Fire are described ending death (compare Rev. 20:14 and Isa. 25:8). Lake of Fire is merely another name for the Eschaton Fire, and for GOD (YHWH). So, the trajectory of the condemned human is to live in the physical body as a living soul, then at body-death the unchosen soul goes into the underworld regions, wherein the consciousness and/or soul ceases to exist, in some partial or full way (annihilation is analyzed in detail), the consciousness and/or soul is annihilated until the Eschaton, wherein the unchosen human is resurrected (awakened, brought back into existence), to be put into the Lake of Fire (GOD, YHWH), in order to be saved in Christ, forever, via GOD-immolation, at the Eschaton. The author understands that some claims of this thesis are new and could be surprising, but the Scriptural evidence presented is copious, and considered definitive, making use of a thoroughgoing literalist framework, wherein a systematic theology of Calvinist universal salvation is uncovered that was previously unnoticed.
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This article later became a chapter in my recent book, God-Faith: Discovering the Pure Logic Built into the Fabric of Reality.
Synopsis: A new theological interpretation of Calvinist unconditional election and predestination theology is developed, answering the long-standing question of why God chose some, rather than all. The word “foreknowledge” is typically believed to denote future knowledge about the nature of the human in physical reality (in chronological terms, God having awareness of the human soul at all times, including times future from its origination-point), but I will find that “foreknowledge” originally meant initial knowledge of the soul, the moment of its creation. Further, Romans 8:28-30 and 1 Peter 1:2 are focused on to show that the specific mechanics of what the word “foreknowledge” involves in Scripture reveal that God had awareness of all human souls after they were created but also before God elected souls. This pre-election knowledge of the soul God had can indicate why God only could choose some, rather than all souls, and the vexing centuries-old question of Calvinist unconditional election finally has an answer.
Drafts by Jeff Grupp
Thesis Chapters by Jeff Grupp
This article later became a chapter in my recent book, God-Faith: Discovering the Pure Logic Built into the Fabric of Reality.
Synopsis: A new theological interpretation of Calvinist unconditional election and predestination theology is developed, answering the long-standing question of why God chose some, rather than all. The word “foreknowledge” is typically believed to denote future knowledge about the nature of the human in physical reality (in chronological terms, God having awareness of the human soul at all times, including times future from its origination-point), but I will find that “foreknowledge” originally meant initial knowledge of the soul, the moment of its creation. Further, Romans 8:28-30 and 1 Peter 1:2 are focused on to show that the specific mechanics of what the word “foreknowledge” involves in Scripture reveal that God had awareness of all human souls after they were created but also before God elected souls. This pre-election knowledge of the soul God had can indicate why God only could choose some, rather than all souls, and the vexing centuries-old question of Calvinist unconditional election finally has an answer.