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You're wasting my time. You can repeat your position as though I've said nothing at all until you're blue in the face with someone else.

No, it absolutely does not claim any such thing, Lon! It makes the claim that God is able to predict the future but that is NOT the same thing as saying that God has perfect knowledge of every event that will ever happen. It just does not teach that and if you think it does, it is you who are...

From Chat GPT.... Prompt: "Ignore other English translations and simply translated 2 Thes. 2:3 based solely on the Greek itself." Certainly! Here's a direct translation of 2 Thessalonians 2:3 based solely on the Greek text: "Let no one deceive you in any way, because unless the apostasy comes...

It's a wonder that it still surprises me when people so consistently regurgitate the same hand full of proof-texts in order to support doctrines that the texts themselves simply do not teach! Don't over react to my saying this so bluntly but those three passages are not the reason you believe...

"The AI Critical New Testament (AICNT) is a translation that utilizes AI technology to render the New Testament into English. Unlike the KJV and NKJV, which are based on the Textus Receptus, the AICNT aligns with modern translations like the NIV by relying on critical editions of the Greek text...

Why do you believe that?

Go ahead, Bladerunner, and make one more statement like that and then hide and watch to see whether you end up on my ignore list.

So it's an AI redo of the NIV basically. Not completely useless but if someone does it again using the Textus Receptus then I'd be more into it.

Double predestination is just logically consistent Calvinistic (Augustinian) predestination. It is hideous blasphemy. Judas was in no way predestined to do the things he did. God knew his heart and was using him to "fulfill" (i.e. parallel) certain passages in the Old Testament but there isn't...

Then make the argument. This was said in response to my explicit statement to the contrary. If you are attempting to intentionally waste my time, we will stop getting along very quickly. Yes. The book of Hebrews is teaching doctrine to people from the previous dispensation which required good...

What does that have to do with anything? Incidentally, I believe strongly that homosexuality and adultery should be recriminalized and that those convicted should be publicly and painfully executed and it isn't just 1st Corinthians that supports that!

To be clear, it is very possible that I am reacting to a false impression. It is curious, however, that we've gone this long and I'm still not convinced that's the case. It is still possible though. We'll see. The phrase "lordship salvation" refers to any doctrine or belief that implies a...

There is no such thing as God's "decretive will". And no, you are not a Calvinist in any sense of the word. The title you're looking for is Augustinian. Calvinism is reformed Augustinian doctrine.

Everything was going so well and then those last two sentences!!!! You want to avoid theological pretzels by turning off your mind. Blow your brains out to prevent swallowing poison. That is the opposite of a solution! If you're going to appeal to mystery then why drop Calvinism? There's no...

I really wish you would stop just making totally unsupported statements as though something must me taken as true because you bothered to show up and post a single sentence. I am not going spend time researching your claims and I couldn't care less about your personal opinions. Stop wasting...

That's very interesting! I wonder which texts they chose to translate from?

I just had the following conversation with Chat GPT..... I said: Without referencing any existing English translation of the bible and going strictly by the Greek itself, translate I Thessalonians 4:15-18 into English. ChatGPT said: Here is a direct translation of 1 Thessalonians 4:15–18 from...

So, the Calvinistic understanding of the word 'elect' isn't supported by the text of scripture itself. They basically read their doctrine into the text. Going strictly by what the text itself says, "the elect" generally refers to groups of people that have been selected for a particular purpose...

If you say so. :cool:

(y) No, I do not see that at all. I don't see how such an idea can even be possible. Who's teaching you this stuff. It makes no sense! Universalism is the literally insane notion that every single person will be saved. It teaches that even the likes of Pharoah (i.e. the Exodus Pharoah), Judas...