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When the bible speaks of "the heart", it is speaking about the mind. EVERYTHING volitional act you perform, whether thought, word or deed, comes from your mind. Since any moral action is a volitional action, by definition, then it follows that all of what could be considered righteousness or sin...

Reason is man's ONLY tool of knowledge. Reason is a faculty that man has to exercise by choice. Man can choose to either use reason or not, which means he can choose to think or not to think. Thinking is not an automatic function. In any hour and issue of his life, man is free to think or to...

This is just so wrong, it's hard to even put into words! I'd love to know by what process of thought you came to such a conclusion. Define "perfect"? Perfect, by what standard? Define "perfect" in the absolute sense. Exactly! He wasn't finished! Genesis 2:18 And the Lord God said, “It is...

This is further evidence that we are not as far apart as it may seem! One thing, however... I think you overstated things when you said "sin isn't in the action, but in the heart." There are dozens of scriptures along these lines but here's just a few.... Proverbs 24:12 If you say, “Surely...

I'm saying that this question makes no sense given the topic of discussion. Replace "reasoning" with something else and maybe the point will be more clear. Say, riding a bicycle, for example. Some people are better at it than others. You seem to be suggesting that we are born with one leg 20...

Issues like what?

Evident? What evidence do you have that God's CAPACITY to reason exceeds our own. Define your terms and explain what evidence you have that our capacity to reason diminished? You seem to be talking about something other than an ability to think properly. You seem to be talking about...

I wonder what percentage of Messianic Jews are saved? I know that nearly all of them more or less ignore Paul as far as their regular relgious practice goes and that, therefore, they're up to their eyeballs in legalism but that's not a terrible description of the church I attended as a child!

Perhaps, but I have no evidence to suggest that I've been exposed, although I really don't know how I could have avoided it. My wife has had it at least once, perhaps twice and my oldest daughter had long COVID and still to this day hasn't fully recovered her sense of taste. In addition to that...

In what way is it a mischaracterization? You directly implied that Paul lied when he "made the assertion" that Jesus "gave him a different mission" (to use your terminology). That's blatant heresy by ANY definition of the word! You've just thrown practically the entire Christian faith right out...

Is it weird that I haven't ever gotten COVID?

By his question's premise, one might wonder why Paul seemed to think salvation coming the Gentiles was a new thing! Romans 11:11 I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles.

I've quoted Calvinists on this topic in a view notable places. This is just one prominent example. Another is in my essay, "Our Moral God" where I quote Gordon H. Clark's "God And Logic". Calvinists aren't wrong because they're stupid. They're wrong because they choose to be. They will use...

Consider yourself corrected. Ability? Of course. One's skill in the use of sound reason is very definitely on a scale. No question about it. It's a skill like any other. Someone who spends hours a day in the water is going to be a better swimmer than someone who spends all his time behind a...

To whatever degree you undermine our ability to use reason is the degree to which you hobble our ability to tell right from wrong and truth from error. To whatever degree you believe we are incapable of using reason is the degree to which you are arguing that we are amoral and, as a consequence...

So this isn't going to be a comment about the Big Bang and so forgive the rabbit trail but I just wanted to make an observation about the way Answers in Genesis (AiG) does their videos and see if anyone agrees with me or if I'm just all wet. Am I wrong or is there just no comparison in...

How does that imply that there are multiple universes? There is exactly zero evidence that whatever is past what we can see is appreciably different than that which we can see. There is an equal amount of evidence that "space" is infinite. That is, if by "space" you mean the physical universe...

My advice is to go in knowing that you're not going to get them to move an inch off their doctrine no matter what you say or how you say it.

We can't understand any of it if reason doesn't work. We cannot understand a thing about God if logic doesn't apply to God. And in what manner was Eve's reasoning "lesser" except that it was flatly false? She, as you said, had all the information she needed to resist the temptation. That...

In addition to asking anything that is relevant to this discussion in this thread, please feel free to ask any question you might have about that essay in the thread about that essay. Two things here.... First, you should understand that reason is so foundational to any meaningful...