Recent content by JudgeRightly

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.

Bump for you:

Devastating. I may never recover from the force of that syllable. It's SOOO compelling! But merely saying “no” does not answer the argument. Your own analogy distinguishes between knowing a man’s general tendency and knowing whether that tendency will hold under a decisive test. Fine. Loves...

Maybe He did. But that still does not prove exhaustive foreknowledge of every future free choice. Jesus knew His disciples. He had been teaching them. He knew their character, their faith, their doubts, and where they stood in that moment. So even granting that Jesus knew what Peter would...

Your analogy actually helps my point. The man may already know his friend likes to bluff. But does he know his friend will still bluff when the stakes are raised high enough? Or will he fold under pressure? That is the issue. Genesis 15 establishes Abraham’s faith. Genesis 22 tests whether...

Thanks for conceding the actual distinction! God knew David. God knew David’s character. God knew David’s guilt. God knew how to expose him through his own sense of justice. Fine. None of that requires exhaustive infallible foreknowledge of all future facts. That is the distinction Right...

Bingo!

Yeah, this wasn't a "crack" (detonation) kind of explosion, like C4 or TNT, where there's lots of initial energy being released all at once. It was a "pusher" (deflagration) kind, like ANFO or a bullet, where the energy release is much more gradual, and transfers energy mechanically to push objects.