Recent content by Derf

One thing is to try to figure out how God knows things. Is the knowledge inate or acquired? If there are any scriotures about God acquiring knowledge, then it speaks against exhaustive foreknowledge, don't you think? Here's one: Jeremiah 17:10 KJV — I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins...

I agree, but knowing an event will occur does mean the event is determined. For instance, I know Jesus will return, but I didn't determine His return. If everything future event is known infallibly by God, then all those events are indeed determined. Now, if you agree correct that God did not...

The point of the thread topic, afaik, is that exhaustive foreknowledge (the usual definition of omniscience), doesn't allow for anyone to choose to have relationship with God, since all their choices, communion or rebellion, are known before they exist.

Ok. The other reason is that I had difficulty seeing how your post was relevant to the thread topic. Maybe you can give a short description of your thoughts on the topic. (It's been awhile since I wrote my question to you, and I don't remember what you were getting at, just my initial...

What do you think the gospel was that God was preaching to Abraham? Wasn't the Gospel that death would be defeated and God would raise people from the dead? Abraham didn't know how before he almost sacrificed Isaac. He didn't know how after Isaac was saved by the Ram, but he knew it would be a...

Greenland, Alberta, Venezuela and Cuba?

I took a philosophy/logic class in college where the professor presented his reasoning for why God doesn't exist. He said that if God is omniscient, omnipotent, and (I expected omni-present, but it was) omni-benevolent, then there would be no evil in the world. It was a new concept for me then...

It depends on what one means by omnibenevolent. If you think it means God always does what we think is good, then no, He's not. But if He does what is really good, including destroying those who fight against Him, then yes.

Or even 1973.

Maybe there's a better term. "Retard" implies someone who is slow, or kept back from progress, not through his own efforts, but through a lack of actual capacity. If someone in that condition shakes his fist at God, it doesn't reflect poorly on that person. But if they knowingly shake their fist...

True, but expecting consistency and reason from judges is, well, expected! So when that's not what we get, we know we have some horrendous judges.

"The Hegseth policy is both arbitrary and based upon animus"? It can't be both, can it?

All shotgun blasts stabilize into recognizable systems. Try it. Shoot a shotgun into the air. All of the pellets will return to stable equilibrium when they hit the ground, passing around the earth at the altitude of zero. Shoot the shotgun at greater than escape velocity and the pellets will...

Two Wongs don't make a right.

I'm not sure on the radiometer effect description where the "hot gas molecules striking the hot side" are coming from. Are they from other objects also being heated by the sun? If so, to push the asteroid away from the sun, they would have to be coming from the cold side of other objects, and...