Recent content by Clete

It seems you are reacting to something that I am not saying. You know better than to accuse me of this. I meant every word I said. You and I are not the only two people reading this exchange. Just as importantly, the way you are using it is incompatible, logically, with a disagreement with my...

I wouldn't go so far as to say that "He might boot people out later" because the conditions that make rejection possible are not indefinitely self-sustaining once truth, clarity, and rightly ordered love are fully established. In our eternal state, ignorance is removed, deception is gone, trauma...

Saying it doesn't make it so. It's a metaphor. We are members of body of believers called "the Body of Christ". We are not literally Jesus' body parts. Your question implied it (at least potentially so). We do not add anything to God, nor is God diminished by our absence. God, by His very...

God didn't need us when He created us and doesn't need us now. His existence and perfection is not, nor will it ever be contingent on us. To speak of us being one of God's "body parts" is to use metaphorical language. I suggest you look again. Satan believes in God's existence RD. Just...

This thread has been stuck in my head all day. I simply cannot comprehend how this idea is even controversial. It seems like perfectly simple common sense stuff to me and so I'm going to make one more attempt to articulate it so that there can be no excuse for misunderstanding - not that any...

I have done no such thing. It never stops amazing me the consistency with which people who disagree with me are forced to mischaracterize what I've said so as to sound reasonable when they disagree. It has been the overarching theme of my theological life for more than two decades now...

Full disclosure: I haven't watched the video so what follows may not even address what it talks about. I'm just shooting the breeze here, killing time before I have to go to work. 10mm vs .45 ACP. Both seem to be using a sledge hammer to drive 16 penny nails. In 99% of cases, a .22 will get...

You are making up god as you go. The word we use to name the concept of creating whatever sort of god we desire to exist is... IDOLATRY The fact of the matter is that it doesn't matter what you "think you are finding". Truth is not a matter of personal opinion. Genesis either teaches the...

You give him too much credit. His effort is in the realm of imagination, not reason. He is making stuff up out of whole clothe. His foundation is nearly pure fantasy with no teleological value whatsoever. His method belongs in the field of fiction novel writing, not theology or linguistics...

This is literal gibberish! There isn't anything about this that even partially resembles rational thought. It's barely intelligible as having been written in English! This is not interpretation but just pure speculation. Speculation that has no basis in ANYTHING. There doesn't even seem to be...

First of all this is not a television show. I can literally spend hours typing posts and, in fact, I used to do exactly that day after day after day. I'd repeat myself dozens of times and would write near identical posts to more than one person. I'd bet that I've committed 10,000 hours to...

I don't ever mind answering any honest question. Just exactly which question is it that you want me to answer? The closest to a question Derf got to was... "So it sounds like you are willing to say that "saved" means resurrection from the dead (and no more) for believers, but resurrection from...

You cannot be that stupid. This is clearly on purpose. Good bye!

The truth is there to see right now for anyone and everyone who desires to see it. Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse...

An idiot, a fool, an evil person. Six one, half a dozen the other.