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That would certainly be necessary, since you don’t know how you made your points with scripture.

You can also give a link to the thread you want to discuss, like this for this new thread you started: https://theologyonline.com/threads/reply-to-below-thread.55781/post-1793548 I got the link by right clicking on the number 1 at the top right of your opening post. Without some reference to the...

I already did. I said you added to scripture to make your point. You have yet to answer my challenge.

Yes, that was my <sarcastic> point. Now go look in the mirror.

It’s so great how you add to scripture to get it to say what you want.

I wasn’t trying to impress you. Thanks anyway. But you should be careful what you eschew. Philosophy is the love of (leading to the seeking of) wisdom. The scriptures you prefer tell us to love and seek wisdom. You can’t both “prefer” scripture and ignore its mandates. Proverbs 4:5-7 (KJV) 5...

Not sure what you’re asking for. Scripture for a hypothetical?

Your quote actually enforces what I was saying. That God might be able to determine what is truth by willing it to be truth. So moral truth would depend on what He decided to declare moral, making devils saints. Is that a problem for you? It is for me.

That assumes that God has to abide by some standard outside Himself. If He defines right and wrong, then He could indeed declare devils to be saints. Can you tell me why that isn’t possible?

@marke: Clete is right, you seem to rely on a tautology to make your point. That may not be wrong when one is considering the source of morality. But it makes one wonder if God could have chosen a different moral construct, where adultery, theft, and murder are preferred. I don’t think so, at...

I’ve found that those who aren’t very bright tend to think of other people as not very bright when they disagree with them. Just saying... Nevertheless, When someone translates the Bible into a new language, how do they decide which words to use? Obviously they start with the words of the Bible...

If that were true, then Adam would not have understood God Noah would not have understood God Abraham would not have understood God And The Bible, once it was written, wasn’t written in Hebrew and Greek, according to your position. Rather, we know God spoke to people in the language they...

Because God doesn’t know how to communicate in the language of the people He made?

Is it? Did God give a definition of “death” in the Bible, or just to you?

Maybe it’s your definition of death that’s causing confusion. Maybe Jesus just died.

Yes, I know. Like mask nazis/Karens, or people who say what you have to spend your hard-earned money on. But in regards to Paul...it's so convenient to say that everything the bible said can't apply to our modern societies. Yet we know it does, since it tells us to obey our authorities...

But it's ok for you to guess about what we "colonists" think and like, as you've been doing this whole thread?

I'm sorry, do we need to go back to the example of someone taking food from your fridge? If I am required to give to someone who doesn't want to work, "regardless of employment status" then you're asking me to be more merciful than God, who inspired Paul to say. [2Th 3:10-11 KJV] 10 For even...

That's why Brain likes the comparison so much. Eider, too.

Which fellow man are we being compassionate toward? All, or just some? Is it compassionate to take money from one man and give it to another against the first's will? Remember that you were the one that said "regardless of employment or financial status". If compassion is really regardless of...