Search results

Saying it doesn't make it so, Bladerunner. You want to know why people blow you off? This is why! We already know what your doctrine is and we have good reason to reject it. You showing up to simply declare your doctrine isn't going to convince anyone. It's a nearly perfect waste of your...

Well, my point in saying what I said was that an appeal to authority can be rejected as easily as it is excepted. In other words, "because so and so expert says so" isn't a real argument it's just an attempt to use someone as a surrogate brain without having to bother with understanding why...

The following essay is the result of an experiment I performed with a very specific sort of prompt that I used in ChatGPT. I wanted an essay that could serve as a primer for those interested in understanding how Open Theism differs from the "Settled View" and why those who hold to it consider it...

This is outright heresy to the point of nearly being blasphemy. Being born with a sin nature is not endemic to being a human. If Jesus was born with a sin nature then there was no need for Him to have been born a virgin. The whole point of the virgin birth was that sin passes through the...

Hebrews was definitely not written by Paul and the fact that most scholars agree otherwise is a terrific piece of evidence that he did not write it. "Scholars" make their career by disagreeing with the bible whenever the opportunity to do so presents itself. Biblical Archeologist in particular...

I just did! I mean I just did precisely that in the exact same post you just quoted from! Are you just playing idiotic games here or what? Last chance Doug. If you want me to take you even a little tiny bit seriously then you'll respond to the scriptures that I and others have already...

Bladerunner, Do yourself a favor and don't respond to this post until you've read the end of it. In fact, just skip down there now and read it first so that you aren't forced to spend two hours writing a mile long response to this whole monstrosity. I've been here for more than two decades and...

I'm a little surprised that more people don't suspect that you and I are the same person!

So, I missed this post when you first posted it and noticed it because Right Divider quoted from it earlier today and I want to respond to it because I would consider this to be an actual argument you've presented here and since I'm all the time preaching that people should make arguments and...

Well, that isn't a money issue so much as it's an honesty issue. Perhaps you could say it was a greed issue. I'd completely agree that such decision making is foolish and even antithetical to the whole mindset that scientists are supposed to have.

Why do you suppose that John the Baptist, while he was still in the womb, leaped for joy when Mary who was pregnant with Jesus came close? Luke 1:41 And it happened, when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, that the babe leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. 42...

You think that's a bad thing?

This is so true! Believe it or not, I sometimes find myself giving scientists a bit of a pass on this though because it truly is human nature for this sort of institutionalization to happen. I mean, there are people who's true calling in life is to be a scientist and the system as it exists...

This statement was an intentional lie. Who are you trying to convince? A doctrine is only blasphemous when it insults the character of God. You cannot point to a single time when any doctrine has been called blasphemous for another reason. Probably by people who have no authority to actually...

No, you couldn't! I mean, you could say it, but saying it doesn't make it so! There is the plain reading and then there are interpretations. They aren't the same thing.

Who give a damn about Harvard? Then they're as stupid as you are, Lon! ' No, the rebuttal was the very next sentence, MORON! You're the one wasting everyone's time with literal stupidity. If you don't like me pointing it out then I invite you to leave. I wasn't giving an opinion. I was...

Oh yes! I remember it as if it happened yesterday! Here's the WHOLE argument.... "Water baptism isn't necessary for salvation because there are two parallel passages... "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life." (John 6:47) "He who believes and is baptized...

Such a critically important distinction to make! (y)

Quite so! The "seed plot" of the bible starts practically from page one presenting a God that learns and changes His mind and gives people privacy and all sorts of things that would crack Aristotle's god into a million little tiny pieces.

I grew up as a Christian. I was baptized the Sunday before Easter when I was in the third grade, which ChatGPT tells me was March 23, 1975. That's coming up on exactly 50 years ago! Wow! Throughout my childhood and young adult years, I attended so-called "Christian Churches" (e.g., Memorial...