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A follow-up thought on why the legal details matter. When God gave Israel the law, He did not merely give them vague moral sentiments or private impressions. He gave them commandments written on tablets of stone. And the context matters. Israel stood at Sinai, saw the thunderings, lightning...

No, not by definition. You are conflating two different ideas because they may produce a similar practical outcome. “No lower domestic authority has jurisdiction to punish or remove the king” is not the same thing as “the king is legally permitted to ignore the law.” A king who cannot be...

They're only granted citizenship because of the modern interpretation of the 14th Amendment. Prior to it, and under a stricter reading of 'subject to the jurisdiction thereof,' children of foreigners (especially those not here legally) weren't automatically citizens. Upholding expansive...

Have you ever tried to read a story chapter by chapter, but instead of starting from the first chapter, you start with the last? The only end result of that is confusion, no? And Paul does refer to the Old Testament as a whole, and particular passages throughout, many of which you need to...

At the very least, you kept avoiding saying it directly, but fair enough, we can set that side issue aside. Regardless you affirm it now: in your system, the domestic authority enforcing the law against the king is above the king in the decisive case. That has been my structural objection all...

With this you have finally admitted that the authority enforcing the law against the king is above the king. Good. But that simply punts the problem up a level. If the king, who is one man, can abuse final authority, then so can the multiple men who possess final authority over the king. Judges...

An excellent question, one that exposes just how screwed we are with the decision.

Democracy is bad.

I would appreciate it if, when you don't have the time to read through my posts, let alone take the time to respond properly, to just sit on the post until you do. You DO NOT have to respond as soon as you read my post. Because this post leaves me with very little else to say other than that...

No, that is not my premise. I am not arguing that there can be no shared authority, divided labor, subordinate offices, jurisdictional boundaries, lawful resistance, or checks of any kind. I am arguing about final earthly jurisdiction in the specific case of removing the chief civil ruler. A...

Humans are hardwired for language. Some are more flowery in their language than others.

Sorry this took so long. I've been busy with work, but I’ve also been doing a bit of research on this topic, mostly going through material from BEL and DBC. I’ve also been catching up on uploading the CDs/DVDs I have from the store, including one DVD I thought I had uploaded previously: God's...

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I don't trust rotten tomatoes.

The Journal.ie piece critiques Pearson's 2019 extrapolation to 250k as flawed (mixing broad CSE with specific gang cases + hotspot bias). Fair enough on the math. Extrapolations have limits, and official reviews admit exact national totals are hard due to poor data. But that's not a debunk of...

I think what RD is trying to say is, "how do you get from those verses, to your claims he quoted?"

But is he facing towards or away from the chart?

No it doesn't. Yes, thats what we said to you. Does Polly want a cracker now? Again, no one said it was. Calling it a modal fallacy does not make it one. Which premise are you rejecting? If God infallibly foreknew before they existed that they would not repent, could they repent? If...

No, it wasn't. You're making this way more difficult than it has to be. It's a simple yes or no question about your principles. Fine, different question: are the king and the judges coordinate offices under the law, each with distinct authority and jurisdiction? In other words, neither office...