Recent content by Clete

@ephraim, You repeatedly call your interpretation “the true meaning,” then offer the fact that Christians reject it as evidence that they are deceived. Where have you established that your interpretation is true? You showing up here to state your interpretation doesn't make it true and...

This post should not be taken to mean that I've removed Idolator from my ignore list. It does NOT mean that! There is one thing I can guarantee anyone reading Idolator's comment: It was ENTIRELY prima facie. It seems that surface thinking is all he is capable of. There was not one second of...

Taking God’s name in vain concerns how you use His name, not how accurately you pronounce it. You can pronounce it perfectly while invoking Him to support a lie. Would that cease to be taking His name in vain because you got the vowels right? Clearly not. Also, Mr. Huff sneaks in a little...

This is called "Modalism" and its only been considered a heresy for no more than about one thousand eight hundred years! Sabellius, the father of modalism, was excommunicated for basically this same teaching around AD 220, more than a century before the Council of Nicaea in AD 325. It's little...

There's no doubt that AI isn't the near miracle that many people treat it as. I've used Chat GPT enough to know that you absolutely cannot trust it to do anything important entirely on its own. You have to hand hold it and make sure it doesn't cross boundaries or go off onto weird tangents that...

I agree that murder and rape and other such things are wrong. I, however, when asked, can explain to people WHY it is wrong. I'm trying to understand whether you are merely asserting that it is wrong or whether there is a why behind that assertion. Why is murder wrong if there is no God? So...

It's amazing that it makes that much difference. Sticking with Standard time would really super suck for people like yourself! If they do get rid of DST, they should split the difference. It's standard time now, so they could say that we're going to move the clocks up half an hour and then...

Wow! Sunset at 4:46 PM. That seems crazy early. Sunset this evening (Nov. 2) at my house will be at 5:34 PM. Of course, I'm quite far south and just about in the middle of my time zone. If you're a lot further north and live near the east side of your time zone, that would explain the...

Quite so! (y) Excellent!

"Direct Ad Hominem: Insulting the opponent directly instead of evaluating their reasoning." That definition of Ad Hominem is not quite accurate. An ad hominem is a fallacious form of argument, not merely the act of insulting someone in response to some argument that they've presented. If I...

Why is your answer yes?

So, I was rereading my own post above this morning and a thought occurred to me that I have to share here. Notice the impact that the ideas expressed in that post has on things you'd never expect. If rational life is the objective standard of morality, and God is necessarily living, rational and...

Well, this is the first time you've asked me to define the term "life" and this is not nearly so simple a topic as most people who attempt such discussions tend to treat it as. I've spent the better part of a year writing and rewriting a single chapter of a book that makes an argument for the...

Life is the standard. God Himself is the standard in so much as He is Life. And He is Life and so it isn't wrong to say that God is the standard. The only issue is that the vast majority of people don't get what is meant by that statement. Many, particularly atheists, are ready to pounce on it...

The one you posted from the American Heritage Dictionary, unless there's another one I missed, is, in my view, a rather worthless definition. I mean, it's technically correct, but in the context of this discussion, as well as most discussions about morality, it amounts to little more than a...