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You! You AI bot has failed you. Open Theism is not principally about reconciling free will with divine foreknowledge. It's about reading the bible and taking it to mean what it actually states, not what we want to read into it as is exemplified in every single one of the proof-texts it fed to you.

As are a great many other traditional things. Biblically, God knows everything knowable THAT HE WANTS TO KNOW and is able to find out anything knowable that He doesn't already know. He is not required to be a first person witness to every event that happens and He is fully capable of giving...

Excellent questions all, but they won't move him an inch. His belief in God is not rational, it is emotional. Indeed, he very likely believes that his willingness to believe the irrational is what it means to be pious and that the act of turning off one's mind is faith itself. No argument can...

The Omniscience you speak of is unbiblical.

I couldn't care less what Nietzche said that Christianity is. On the contrary. Your post is still there for everyone to read. I quoted it directly. Just what is it that you think the word "nihilism" means? nihilism /nī′ə-lĭz″əm, nē′-/ noun The doctrine that nothing actually exists or that...

Such a paradox does not belong to the biblical worldview but to Aristotle's. The biblical God is not Omni-whatever in the Classical sense of those terms. God's attributes.... Classical Biblical God knows everything, without exception or qualification. God knows what He wants to know of...

First, I'd just like to say that it's nice to find someone new on TOL who appears to have read more than one book in his lifetime and who can articulate himself with some degree of linguistic alacrity. This should prove interesting! Your thesis rests on a key assumption that is quite false...

I'm reminded of something from a book I read years ago.... “There being no cause in the creature why Grace should be shown, the creature must be brought off from trying to give cause to God for His Grace… He has been accepted in Christ, who is his standing! He is not ‘on probation.’ As to his...

Way to ignore what I said. Brilliant! Don't flatter yourself. My reasons have to do with accuracy. Jew are NOT Christian - period. Any third grade child can tell you that. You're stupid. Ignorant and stupid. You don't get to redefine widely used words with totally intuitive and common...

OR... It could be more or less just what it's claimed to be - brilliant diplomacy that alters the complexion of the middle east for the foreseeable future. It wouldn't be the first time that there was an era of relative peace and stability.

I've always loved that phrase, "the love of the truth". That is truly the key! And the definite article is present in the Greek is it "the truth" that Paul is talking about. Paul is not talking about a vague appreciation for truth in general. He is pointing to a definite, recognized truth...

You should write it! That sounds like the beginnings of a book, actually. I watched a YouTube video several months ago. The content creator was talking about 'writing to learn' and advised his viewership, instead of merely researching a topic that they're interested in, that they should set...

There is actually a term for this. It's called "entrenchment". People make decisions based on a perceived cost/benefit analysis. There is no actual analysis done in the methodical sense of the word, but merely on an intuitive basis. Someone perceives an idea and a lightning calculation is done...

Catholic dogma is up to it's eyeballs with legalism of every make model and color. Do you or do you not believe that believers are obliged to follow the Ten Commandments?

I just reread most of the first 50 posts of this thread. It is a master class on the power of paradigm. Dave is completely blind to everything RightDivider was saying. Totally and completely blind to it. So much so that it feels intentional but I doubt that it is. Dave has a lifetime of teaching...

This feels to me like a rather weird, forced and artificial distinction. Israel is not our ally because they are "western" but because their geopolitical interests align with our own. The sociopolitical similarities you've listed have to do with a shared history and worldview (a biblical...

There's a PC app. It gets bogged down far less than the online version.

Many serial killers suffered severe long term abuse. A very large percentage of them are homosexuals (for the same reason). Years ago I had a thread about that exact subject. I don't know whether it still exists or not.

I used the PC app.

Yours are better. It gave me one that wasn't in landscape mode...