Recent content by Clete

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Idolater has the thickest pair of Catholic-colored glasses I’ve ever seen. Next we’ll be hearing that both the wheel and hard candy were Catholic inventions. Ignoring the goofy comments about white supremacy completely… Idolater’s “argument” only works by defining “Catholic” so broadly that...

Derf, your property example actually makes my point better than I did. Your attorney told you that the intent of the person who filed the plat would have to be determined from the document itself, not from whatever that person might later claim he remembered intending. Exactly! The document is...

Cops are trained and expected to be suspicious. It is literally what they are getting paid to do. I didn't watch the entire video but that first driver (if there was more than one) went to jail because he was dumb and talked way too much. If not giving the officer anything to use against him...

Dolly Parton was not a demon worshiper! It's ridiculous to the point of being asinine. I don't have the time or sufficient interest to debunk every video the internet can invent to suggest otherwise. The fact that there are "no other signs" is evidence, Nick! Do you really think people can...

A recent exchange on another thread here on TheologyOnline struck me as a nearly perfect example of a problem that comes up constantly in discussions about Scripture: RightDivider: The body of Christ is not Israel and Israel is not the body of Christ. Derf: True. And Israel is not Israel...

I remember the first time I heard Bob Enyart talk about it. It was at one of his seminars. It has to have been the seminar he did on The Plot. I remember being simultaneously astounded by the contrast and annoyed that I had been a christian for so many years without it having ever been pointed...

It is definitely not more recent. The Access Hollywood interview is fairly well documented. Plus, I now know for a fact that Dolly was not referencing Azazel. She was making specific reference to the Azul brand of Tequilla. By shear coincidence, the truck in the photo below drove past me...

The contrast is definitely stark enough to raise the suspicion that their both having used Abraham to make opposite points was intentionally done. Perhaps Paul had read or heard about James' epistle and chose to make the opposite point as a result. Or it may well have been coincidental Abraham...

I trust next to nothing that I see on social media. Particularly when there's insufficient context or no context at all. That particular video you posted is from a December 2018 Access Hollywood interview with Dolly Parton and Jennifer Aniston, interrupted by Sandra Bullock bringing tequila...

I showed Chat GPT that video and after it's initial response, I also asked whether Dolly ever made any public professions of faith in Christ. Here is it's response... Yes. Dolly Parton made many public professions of Christian faith over the course of her life, and some were quite explicit...

The point of the question that your statement, "Sheol is enlarged because it was never intended for men to be cast into it.", seems to be incompatible with the teaching that men and the devil fell at the same time.

I understand that serpentdove has been banned but I want to respond to the short essay he linked to in the above excerpt from his post, which tries to argue that James 2 isn't talking about actual belief but only stated (i.e. pretend) belief. I won't post the full text of the essay here. The...

The men it was intended for were those who follow the devil. Do you a agree with Bob's teaching about Lucifer, (i.e. the yet unfallen angel) having sinned in Genesis 3 and that it was his temptation of Adam and Eve was where sin entered creation?

Okay, so the immediate context absolutely does involve Hymenaeus and Philetus and their false teaching about the resurrection. Paul contrasts Timothy, who must handle the truth correctly, with men who have “concerning the truth…erred” (See verse 18). But the claim that “rightly dividing” means...