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Calvinism, Catholicism as well as any other form of Augustinian doctrine cannot survive that single verse of scripture.

That’s the fundamental, paradigm level, difference between those who hold to determinism and those who don’t. Determinists tend to interpret certain passages as referring to specific individuals and meticulously detailed outcomes, while non-determinists understand them as referring to groups and...

Nonsense! I couldn't care less about what Catholicism teaches. You might as well be telling me what Scientology teaches. NONE of that has ANYTHING WHATSOEVER to do with the Catholic doctrine you are referring too! No, Idolater. I can't tell if this is coming from an ignorance of your doctrine...

It's a false dichotomy. Although you'll refuse to acknowledge it as such, in which case I would be forced to say that it is, in fact, "OK" if we sin intentionally or otherwise. It isn't actually OK but that's what you'd twist the truth into saying, which means that I and those here who agree...

2000 views does not mean that 2000 unique people have viewed it.

His plan, yes. Of course he can. When you make plans, do you take control of the people involved? Which often does not happen. Otherwise, there'd be no point in praying for it. The very prayer itself is a tacit admission that the future is not settled. God exists in all places THAT HE WANTS...

Contrast two people... 1. The man who avoids the cliff's edge because he loves his life, wishes to preserve it and therefore avoids unnecessary danger. 2. The man who avoids the cliff's edge because there is a sign and is merely following the rules. Who is the better man, the one who is...

Dominic has really come into his own on these videos. He's clearly gotten quite comfortable in front of the camera. I love it.

It's not just scholars. The average pew-sitting Calvinist often just absorbs the doctrine without deeply wrestling with its implications. They affirm determinism in the abstract but live their lives in a way that assumes real choice, simply because that’s how human experience works. They don’t...

What is forbidden is that we place ourselves under the law. Just as Adam was forbidden to eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, so we are forbidden to seek righteousness via the law. Romans 10:4 Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. Parallels...

Why would you watch such a show?

I keep hearing people say Calvin believed in immutability and that God never changes, but every time someone tries to prove it, they always quote a single line from the Institutes that, when isolated, sounds strong but isn't airtight by itself. They’ll cite something like: “Nothing more absurd...

I have Lon on ignore and will have him there from now on. However, there are times when people quote his posts and snippets of the things he says are brought to my attention. I discovered the above sentence a few hours ago and it's ignorance took my breath away. There is, it seems to me, a box...

You desire too much to believe in mystical crap. You'd do well to apply a little of Akham's Razor to your doctrine.

Do you understand what it means to falsify the contrary? That might seem like an odd, even esoteric question, but it is a real question that you really do need to answer, for yourself if not for any other reason. If only A or B is true and A is falsified then B is necessarily true. Can you...

His problem runs deeper than this. If thought is purely a physical process, then it is a deterministic one, meaning that the outcomes of chemical reactions are entirely governed by the specific conditions present at the time they occur. At any given moment, there can be only one set of...

Nonsense! Do you even know what the word democracy means? Did you even bother to read the post? There would never be anything resembling a general election under such a system.

You're so blind it's absolutely incredible. Your appeal to tradition just means that you can pick and choose to believe whatever you decide to call tradition. It's fundamentally impossible to debate because there is no foundation to it whatsoever. That's stupidity. You show up with this post...

He's close to being on mine after that last gem of condescending stupidity. I don't even understand why someone with that level of dishonesty even cares to discuss the topic at all. Why not just go believe whatever the hell you decide you'd like to believe? Where the profit in pretending to...

This makes no sense. It doesn't even feel like a response to what I said.