Recent content by Clete

I think there are several serious problems with this, beginning with the assumption that these dreams were miraculous in the first place. You have had a series of dreams and, after later events occurred, interpreted those events as the fulfillment of the dreams. From there you concluded that...

Well, there a lot to say about this but the first thing is that you haven't succeeded even in the stated purpose of your post. You set out to identify the loop we're stuck in, but the loop you've identified exists only after you rewrite my premise to require some "further" domestic authority...

Well, this is progress of a sort. We agree that God has established the antecedent moral principle that murderers are to be punished by civil government. Numbers 35:31 couldn't be any clearer. We also agree, thanks to Bastiat, that civil law does not create that moral principle but organizes the...

As I read back through my own post, another thought occurred to me. The Calvinist often responds to arguments such as the one presented above by saying that people do what they desire to do and are therefore morally responsible for their actions. But this does nothing to answer the argument...

I'm pretty sure he wasn't disputing the content, but merely pointing out that the text was generated by an AI. AI, by the way, isn't nearly so deceptive as many are making it out to be precisely because it is so easy for real human beings to tell when something has been generated by AI (An AI...

I get it. David himself was an adulterous murderer that God kept on the throne. God had a unique relationship with the nation of Israel and her kingdom and was doing things and making decisions based on long term goals which had to do with providing a Savior for the entirety of Adam's race...

Whatever Bob Hill said about it, you can take to the bank. I've had multiple people that I have good reason to trust tell me that he was a simply brilliant Greek scholar.

Deserved? Whether a treasonous king deserves death is not in dispute. It is precisely the fact that you do not dispute it that defeats your position. We are not here debating MORALITY, we are debating criminal justice.

I cannot comprehend your ability to turn what should have been a 5-10 sentence response into almost 600 words. The question does not remain! It has been answered over and over and over again! The constitution (i.e. the law) defines the offices involved, how those offices are populated and how...

Seem to disappear? This sounds like a problem of perception/perspective... One night a man had a dream. He dreamed he was walking along the beach with the Lord. Across the sky flashed scenes from his life. For each scene, he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand: one belonging to him...

Do we agree that law necessarily involves enforcement? If we do, it was a waste of time for you to have written the entire rest of your post because under Bob's proposed system there can be no enforcement against the king. No enforcement equals no law, by your own stated argument. Notice that...

During the Millennium Christ will be the literal King of Kings. He will be the highest sovereign authority over all other authority on the planet. If the ruler (whether he's a "king" or not) is sufficiently "bad", as you put it, Jesus will deal with that ruler as needed. The country with the bad...

It ridiculous/hysterical that Author Brain pretends to be offended by the fact that people are annoyed when he intentionally refuses to give a straight answer to the simplest of questions! What is it that makes life bearable for people who have turned off their minds?!

Alright, so the fact that you've reduced your position to three foundational premises, is genuine progress, but the problem is that I am now fully convinced that our disagreement to be axiomatic. What I can't tell yet is whether you're able to see it. You believe a constitution remains the...

At this point (actually its probably been for a long time) your engaging with this idiot is only serving to grant him legitimacy that he hasn't ever deserved but might have been afforded because of some doubt that existed as to whether he was coming from a place of honest error. He is not. His...