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Correct. And Peter isn't the foundation. Jesus is. Correct. Paul said: For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in...

Thread derailment. Take it to a different thread, please.

No. I am simply applying a single definition of knowledge to both cases. Knowledge means knowledge. Foreknowledge means prior knowledge. The difference between man’s knowledge and God’s knowledge is not that the word “knowledge” changes meaning when applied to God. God’s knowledge is...

@Clete something else to consider is that the floodwaters remained on the earth for nearly half a year after the initial rupture. It's possible that much of the debris fell into the global ocean during that time.

That depends on relative velocity. If two large bodies collide from unrelated trajectories at high relative speed, then yes, they tend to shatter rather than merge. But that is not the only possible scenario. Material ejected from the same event, in related streams, in the same general...

And departed, it seems.

Fair enough. I appreciate the clarification. Maybe not, but I think we at least clarified where the disagreement is. Allow me to make one last attempt to state my position clearly, and if you still think it won't go anywhere, I'll leave things be. I don't think I'm sitting on either horn...

Changing one person's mind is easy. You will never change the minds of millions of people.

Why? What have I done to deserve this sort of treatment of my arguments from you, Clete?

There are very few "rational people" on the left.

Because ideas have consequences, Clete. Consequences that I explained in my previous post: -- Calling Ceres a dwarf planet does not make it remotely comparable to Earth, nor does it make the asteroid belt some massive planetary-scale problem for HPT. Ceres is large compared to other...

No, see the post immediately prior to yours, #189. You have no idea what open theism teaches, do you? From the moment Abraham was told to leave, to the moment he rached for the knife was about three days. And no, that three days is NOT a coincidence, by the way. More on that in a moment...

Your incredulity, while understandable, doesn't falsify the part of the theory you're incredulous about. Or the theory as a whole, for that matter. One of the main premises of the HPT was to explain the effects of the flood WITHOUT appealing to ad hoc explanations or miracles not explicitly...

This is false on its face. You are using “foreknow” as though it automatically means “exhaustively and infallibly know every future free choice.” It does not. The Bible itself uses the word more broadly. Peter says: “You therefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand...” And Paul says...

I either missed this or wasn't paying much attention, but this appears to be the entire sermon.