Non-Neutrality: A Personal Testimony
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Philosophy is a means to an end - so if your intention is to be an enemy of God, your philosophy will follow. Yet, as Hiram's testimony demonstrates, there is a price to pay for suppressing the truth about God in unrighteousness.
In Non-Neutrality: A Personal Testimony, join Hiram R. Diaz III as he details his conversion from atheism, apostasy, and intellectual insanity to faith in the Logic of God, Jesus Christ the crucified, resurrected, and exalted Savior of sinners.
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Non-Neutrality - Hiram R. Diaz III
NON-NEUTRALITY
A Personal Testimony
Hiram R. Diaz III
SCRIPTURALIST PUBLICATIONS
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Copyright © 2017 by Hiram R. Diaz III
Published by Scripturalist Publications
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ISBN: 9781537860169
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Conversion, Deconversion, & A Family Death
2. A Metaphysical Conundrum
3. My Very Brief Stint as an Existentialist
4. Difference & Repetition: : Before Grandpa Died or Ayden was Born
5. Substance Abuse
6. Underground Philosophizing
7. A Logical Conundrum
8. An Awakening
9. Cold Turkey, Kinda
10. A Brief Exposition on the Subject of Guilt
11. Genesis 3: A Failed Attempt at Deconstructing the Scriptures
12. Comfort, Nothing, and Fear in Death
13. Evidentialism and Kierkegaardianism
14. Fear, Trembling, and the Cross of Christ
Appendix A: What is the Gospel?2
Appendix B: Genesis 33
Appendix C: Romans 1-5
Notes
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1. CONVERSION, DECONVERSION, & A FAMILY DEATH
PRIOR TO BECOMING A FALSE convert I was immersed in questions about the fact of evil in the world, appearances vs. reality, the tenuousness of human life, the problem of induction, the question of whether or not God existed, the problem of personal identity, and various problems of epistemology. These questions haunted me day and night, so much so that at the age of eleven I began smoking and drinking, albeit lightly, in order to alleviate some of the stress I incurred from thinking on such matters. By the time I was sixteen, I was intoxicated, in one form or another, more or less all day. And that is when I had a false conversion experience that I mistook for a real solution to the philosophical and emotional turmoil I was facing daily.
My conversion
was not really to Christianity, however, but a Christianized emotionalism I had concocted from bits and pieces of theology I had picked up in youth group and church. As time passed, my desire to be a Christian
waned. Sure, Christianity had forced me to take school seriously. It had also introduced me to apologetics and, by extension, philosophy. Yet it proved to be too stifling to my freedom as a depraved teenager who merely wanted to indulge in worldly pleasures. So I began reverting to the atheism of my youth. Only this time, I thought I had good reasons
to reject Christianity.
I lived in a haze of marijuana smoke, muscle relaxers, and malt liquor for several years, only to be rudely awoken by the death of my beloved grandfather. At this point in my life, my wife (who at the time was only my girlfriend) was pregnant with our first son, Ayden. The convergence of life and death struck me as profound, but I couldn’t put my finger on why. This was a nuisance for me, as I professed to