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Excellent point! If you respond in kind, they'll ban you.

False! "I admit that in this miserable condition wherein men are now bound, all of Adam's children have fallen by God's will... ...Nor ought it to seem absurd when I say, that God not only foresaw the fall of the first man, and in him the ruin of his posterity; but also at his own pleasure...

To my beloved brother in the faith, grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I write to you concerning the knowledge of God, for I perceive that many have been led to think of Him in a way that does not befit His greatness. They say that God’s wisdom consists in His...

If you mean foreknowledge in the sense of infallible foreknowledge then the answer is yes, it does mean that the future is fixed. Whether the foreknowledge is the cause of it being fixed is another question, but if God infallibly knows what you will do tomorrow then when you do it, you do not do...

Perfect reasoning except that I wouldn't have used the term "extreme". You don't have to be an "extreme Calvinist" to believe this. This is, in fact, what regular old, garden variety, Calvinism teaches. Any one who calls themselves a Calvinist and does not believe this, is ignorant of what...

Yes, I'm not disputing that he was made a little lower than the angels but rather what is meant by that. Lower how? or Lower in what way? That is the question we don't really know the answer to.

Stories like Hezekiah's make Open Theism the only viable option. I don't understand the reluctance to except it as the obvious truth that it is. What is the profit that anyone derives from believing that God knows everything in advance such that it makes it impossible for them to understand such...

Excellent post, Nolan! The problem, it seems to me, is a cultural one and it isn't going to get fixed by any conventional means except on a very local level and even then only sparingly. On the macro level, the church has always been a reflection of the society. It's policies, practices and...

I'm not convinced that this is so. He spoke and the wind and waves obeyed Him. People were healed by merely touching the hem of the garment He was wearing. In fact, with only a very few exceptions all of His miracle were performed without anything other than the expression of His will. It seems...

Sheesh. How boring. It's logic! Plain reason! Logic is the solitary means by which the chaos of raw data is distilled into coherent meaning. It is by the rigorous application of reason that we sift truth from mere noise, transforming abstract symbols into meaning, comprehension and...

Peter could have repented. Eve could have told the serpent, "NO!" and Adam could have told Eve, "NO!".

No, that isn't right. We are not Israel, Idolater! The parable pertains to the NATION of Israel, not every individual believer - not even every individual Jew!

I am not suggesting that I came up with the means of clarifying such things, I am suggesting that there is one, and only one, way to do so. Go ahead, give it a guess! I promise that if you don't get it on your next post then I'll let you off the hook here and we can proceed on from there. LOL...

I'd say that it’s a valid point to ask whether one or two of his books could suffice. I have not yet read any of Sowell's books and so can't respond directly. I did, however, ask Chat GPT to respond to your criticism... To directly address the critique: Why five books? Sowell has written...

You've got me beat! I haven't read but a half dozen or so of them.

As you say, it is a place to start but I ask the question, not to discuss evidence per se, but to get to your more fundamental presuppositions. I know that such leading questions can get tiresome and so I won't string you along for much longer. You're already very close to the answer. Notice...

I've posted a summary of the first book here..... The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis

The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis is the first book in a new list of 100 books that everyone should read that I recently posted. I finished reading it yesterday and so I though I'd post a summary of the book here.... Summary of The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis In The Abolition of Man...

The premise of your implied argument here would suggest otherwise. I'd wager that you have no idea what the bible actually teaches about almost anything. He has done precisely that! It is human beings that confuse it - very often on purpose. On the contrary. I will prove it - if you stick...

Don't end up making the same idiot mistake the Ayn Rand made and think that everything that passes for Christianity even remotely resembles what the bible actually teaches. First and foremost my worldview is rational and it is Christian only in the sense that it is consistent with what the...