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Hey community 👋🏽 I’m thinking about starting a Substack and I want your input. For those who don’t know it, Substack is a sleek platform built for writers and bloggers. It’s become the new wave in long-form content: clean, easy to use, and genuinely enjoyable to read on. The idea: post my longer thoughts there regularly so you can actually see how I think in full detail. Stuff that just doesn’t fit on a platform like this. I’ve got a ton of ideas and papers I’ve been sitting on that I haven’t published yet, including: • Arguments for God • Historical apologetics • The problem of evil • High Christology And a lot more you haven’t heard me talk about yet. If this is something you’d want to read, let me know in the comments. If there’s real interest, I’ll seriously consider making the move. Thanks, everyone 🙏🏽​​​​​​​​​​​​

Moving forward, our calls will be intentional and focused on the following themes: - WEDNESDAYS - Debate Prep: Some of you learn best through hands-on scenarios and challenging conversations. These calls will give you the opportunity to you walk through lines of reasoning, honing your understanding of deep concepts through mock debate, hypothetical scenarios, and thought experiments. - SATURDAYS - Q&A: Some of you have questions that will arise throughout the week, and as you go through the course. This call is for you. You'll get individual time with Tim (or guest scholar) to ask whatever questions you may have about apologetics, philosophy, theology, etc. These changes will help you come prepared to each call knowing exactly what to expect. (If you have any questions, feel free to comment on this post or email matt@inspiringphilosophy.com)

Hey everyone, my name is Matt, and I'm the Assistant Director of an apologetics ministry called Inspiring Philosophy. We want to formally announce that Transcending Answers Academy will be transitioning into Inspiring Philosophy Academy! The Inspiring Philosophy Team has partnered with Tim and this program to be the OFFICIAL Inspiring Philosophy Training Course for apologetics, philosophy, theology, and even social media training for those of you looking to become online apologists as well. Stay tuned for: NEW courses, world class scholars joining our group calls, MORE exclusive course content, social media training, and MUCH MUCH more! This will take effect immediately and you will see new features roll out in the coming months. Also, another house keeping announcement: GROUP CALLS will now be Wednesday 6-pm PST and Saturdays 10am-12pm PST. More details to come on that soon. For any and all questions about the academy moving forward, comment on this post or feel free to email: Matt@inspiringphilosophy.com and I'll respond as soon as I am able

Let me know your thoughts on this argument as I have deployed it a few times when someone asks why I'm not a muslim and it doesn't actually pit Christianity VS Islam as it's doing an internal epistemic critique of the Quran's own revelation. Surah 4:157 denies the crucifixion: wa-lākin shubbiha lahum — "but it was made to appear so to them." On the Quran's own account, Allah caused the crucifixion to appear to occur when it did not. The predictable consequence — held across two millennia by hundreds of millions — is the central false belief of the world's largest religion. The Muslim response typically appeals to Ezekiel 14:9 ("I the Lord have deceived that prophet") as a biblical parallel. It isn't one. The two cases are categorically different, and the difference matters because it determines whether divine deception is a contingent judicial act or a standing divine attribute. The Argument P1. Surah 4:157 attributes the appearance of the crucifixion directly to divine causation. Shubbiha lahum is a passive construction with Allah as the implicit agent. P2. Ezekiel 14:9 is categorically different: it describes God hardening a prophet who has already compromised with idolaters, on a people who have already rejected the covenant. It is responsive, particular, and announced (cf. 1 Kings 22:19-23, where Micaiah openly tells Ahab the lying spirit is operating). It is judicial, not essential. P3. The crucifixion deception in 4:157 has none of these features. The witnesses had not rejected the Quranic revelation — it didn't exist yet. The propagation extends to people across centuries with no access to correction. It is unannounced, non-judicial, and indiscriminate. P4. Therefore Allah is, on the Quran's own testimony, a deceiver in the essential sense — one who produces appearances that create enduring false belief, where deception is a positive divine attribute rather than a contingent moral response. Conclusion. A genuine inquirer has no non-circular epistemic warrant for trusting the Quran itself. If Allah causes appearances that produce false belief in matters of central religious importance, the inquirer cannot rule out that the Quran is itself such an appearance. The framework destroys its own foundation.