Author name: Dr. Jay Forrest

Dr. Jay N. Forrest is a philosopher of religion, certified meditation teacher, ordained minister, and author of more than a dozen books. He earned a Doctor of Ministry degree from Trinity Evangelical Christian University and has undertaken advanced and postdoctoral Buddhist studies through programs at Harvard University, Princeton University, Columbia University, the University of Virginia, Naropa University, and Universiteit Leiden. With over forty years of study and practice, his work focuses on philosophy, spirituality, contemplative traditions, and metaphysics.

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The Evidence for Ultimate Reality

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Dan is an Atheist. One day he proudly proclaimed, “There is no God.” So I asked him, “Do you know everything?” Looking at me weirdly, he answered, “No, of course not.” So I said, “So what you don’t know might be God. Therefore you can’t rationally claim there is no God. The most you can […]

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Deism or Theism? Why God’s Intervention Defines the Divide

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Deism is “belief in the existence of a supreme being, specifically of a creator who does not intervene in the universe” (Oxford English Dictionary). Theism is “belief in the existence of a god or gods, especially belief in one god as creator of the universe, intervening in it and sustaining a personal relation to his […]