Recent content by Clete

None of your business. Stop wasting my time and I'll engage in conversation with you.

I sort of doubt that it well ever get very much better than it is right now. I mean, it'll get better but not WAY better. AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) may very well never happen at all. Not that the way it is now isn't transformative. It completely is! But I think mostly the...

I doubt that Paul would be prophesying much of anything about Israel. Also, how would a small group of believing Jews be a comfort to the Body of Christ in relation to whether we had somehow missed the second coming?

It's completely awful. The current GPT 5 version treats each session almost as if every other session you've ever had never existed and every time I ask it a question it want to shoe horn in the fact that I'm a home inspector. I asked it the other day to compare to sets of Bluetooth speakers and...

Speaking of Chat GPT... Does anyone here agree with me that GPT 5 totally sucks compared to 4o?

So, I was "discussing" this with Chat GPT a few minutes ago and I got a response from it that I think really does an excellent job of communicating where I'm at on this particular point so I thought I'd share the exchange with you guys.... I said to GPT... "Well, I'm not convinced entirely that...

Well, I've thought of that but it doesn't quite work because the normal use of "apostasia" had a negative conotation to it and implied a rebelious sort of "falling away".

The Septuagint (LXX) is a Greek translation of the Old Testament. It was already centuries old at the time of Christ and so, of course, no writings of Paul's in there. That isn't the point. The point is simply that it uses the word "apostasia" in a few places, none of which mean "departure"...

I don't understand. Are you saying the GPT denies that the word "apostasia" is used in II Thes. 2:3? Surely not. Please explain. Also, who said anything about "religious context"?

Is the Septuagint new? I mean there really isn't much in the way of ancient evidence of the word being used as "departure". If Paul wanted to highlight the idea of a literal taking up into heaven, "analēmpsis" would have been a better choice of words. It's the word used for Jesus’ ascension and...

I happen to have just listened to a bible study done by Bob Enyart this last Sunday about the Rapture where he made the argument that apostasia should be translated "departure" and I am in the long and well established habit of taking Bob's word for it when it comes to such things and for that...

Oldest is 25, the other 22! Tara has two kids. They're both under 2 years old but they're already talking about wanting to home school. The funny thing is that she totally HATED doing home school as a kid.

My daughter is still a few years away from home schooling her kids but she's already starting to look into her options so this is super helpful! Thanks Poly!

Make a cogent argument or I'll simply put you on ignore and be done with you.

On the contrary! I can defend what I say with legitimate arguments. I'm simply tired of those arguments being ignored. When you begin to be responsive, we can get as detailed as you like. Until then, I'm going to treat you with the respect you've earned and not one ounce more than that.