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Right you are! btw I want to add here that whatever your convictions about the theology and ecclesiology of the Scripture, you too believe the Scripture presupposes your view. It just means you think your view is correct. My point about the Trinity Nick is just that, there's no chapter and...

For the record, I'm still on the Trump Train. I'm still a fan, and think he's the best President we've had since at least Nixon, if not Eisenhower. And if he opts to ride out his term, I expect that he's going to try like heck to pull a rabbit out of a hat and turn it all around. I just think...

Currently Kalshi has the odds of the President resigning during his remaining term at 22.2% https://kalshi.com/markets/kxtrumpresign/trump-resign/kxtrumpresign (Polymarket has him resigning by year end 2026 at 5% and by year end 2027 at 31%)

This one however ... ▼ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Krak%C3%B3w_shooting has the hallmarks of a 'suicide by cop', and happened in Poland. Murder-suicide, looks like. (He murdered his family—he even killed his cats—before going on this rampage, in broad daylight. He was not trying nor...

Rusha I'd never call you an NPC shill, come on! ;)

That's a good thing.

I'm not saying I am presupposing Catholicism when I read Scripture, I am saying that on Catholicism, Catholicism is being presupposed by the Scripture. The argument from Scripture for Catholicism is like the argument from Scripture for the Trinity, in that, it's a transcendental argument, where...

For sure. But I'm not sure all the epistles presupposed their recipients would have also read other epistles by the time they are reading the epistles they were reading. Some (one?) mention another epistle, which is proof of such presupposing, but other than that time(s?), I couldn't be...

[Full disclosure: I, as other TOL users have admitted to doing, used AI tools to help me craft the below. The ideas and essential content are all mine. (I've been accused of impropriety in using AI tools to help craft the OP, but I only did that to, first off, run my thoughts through an...

Thank you. :e4e:

The dog that didn't bark. Anna, Arthur, and Commonsense have all visited TOL since the OP was published, and engaged (with posts, with a 'like'), and none of them have commented or anything on the OP—which prima facie should make them happy. Why would that be? These three are some of...

Premise 2 says a past event is now-necessary. OK: a millisecond ago is past. Therefore pastness contributes nothing to the argument. The only thing that makes God's past belief true is the act it's supposed to constrain. So the necessity is borrowed from the act, and the transfer at Premise 5...

That claim, which I ask you btw to quote/cite, is mere recognition that the early Church was One, and it was this One Church which recognized what we all today call the Bible. I am independent and unbiased through hard work and honesty. I have concluded that Catholicism is constitutionally...

If that argument succeeds, then yes it certainly does, it would prove that any foreknowledge is incompatible with free will. ofc, no argument. Yes. The beginning of my argument is to focus on the argument @way 2 go quoted and that some Open Viewers here have endorsed. If that argument...

Catholicism ofc asserts that all Scripture is the Word of God. Another Scripture that Catholicism fully asserts.

“ Whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to possess AR-15 platform and similar semiautomatic rifles. ” This imo promises to be another landmark Supreme Court case re the Second Amendment. The Supremes will hear the case in early December 2026. It affects especially...

I'll try. Below is Way 2 Go's post containing an argument Open Theists use to refute the coexistence of foreknowledge and free will: This thread is about exhaustive foreknowledge, but if you endorse the above argument, you would reject any foreknowledge at all, as being mutually exclusive...

“ §1260 "Since Christ died for all, and since all men are in fact called to one and the same destiny, which is divine, we must hold that the Holy Spirit offers to all the possibility of being made partakers, in a way known to God, of the Paschal mystery." Every man who is ignorant of the Gospel...

“ §838 The Church knows that she is joined in many ways to the baptized who are honored by the name of Christian, but do not profess the Catholic faith in its entirety or have not preserved unity or communion under the successor of Peter. Those who believe in Christ and have been properly...

The only "rule" is to "believe in Christ".