Recent content by Clete

Classical theists always want to say that God's knowledge is exhaustive and immutable. But when they come to Genesis 18:21, 'I will go down now and see....and if not, I will know', which is clearly a statement that God does not already possess sort of omniscience that Plato, Aristotle, and...

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The guilt of a criminal does not ever create any jurisdiction of any kind. The jurisdiction is created by the law. And the sense in which it is self-contradictory is when you propose to be creating a just legal system while leaving a know murderer as the highest judge. Would you allow any other...

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I didn't say you were defending murder or a murderer. This is a perfect example of why this discussion has been stuck for years. You keep responding to arguments I have not made and ignore the perfectly obvious manner in which your so called unanswered arguments have been either answered...

That is not the rule of law! That is injustice - by definition. More than that, it is a system based on injustice by virtue of the fact that a known murder is permitted to remain as it's chief magistrate and commander in chief. You claim to be defending a system based on justice while openly...

I'm stupid for doing so but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt enough to see if you'll answer one question with a straight answer... What happens when the king is caught murdering one of his generals? There's no doubt he did it, he doesn't even deny it. What happens?

We're done. We can start again when you desire to be honest. I warned you - twice.

Well, we've regressed back to several months ago. So be it. It doesn't follow because that's not what I'm arguing. No one, other than you, has said a single word about "a higher domestic authority". That is, other than the constitution itself (i.e. other than the law itself). You keep...

Okay, now I think we're really making some progress! The discussion has now reached the question that lies beneath nearly everything else we have been debating. The central issue is not simply whether a wicked king might be removed, nor is it merely where final earthly authority terminates. The...

This is like suggesting that bubble gum is "related" to ancient Greek philosophy because the ancient Greeks were among the first to chew a form of gum. Sharing one point of agreement does not make two systems related in any meaningful sense. The Socinians (a group I've never heard of before...

First of all, I want to say that I appreciate your acknowledgment that you overstated my position. That was the central problem with your previous response, and I'm glad we've gotten that behind us. That single issue would have tied up the whole discussion for weeks if it had been almost anyone...

I'm a little at a loss for words here. You spent all that time and effort arguing against a position that I do not hold and that I have not argued. I cannot understand how it is possible for you to have missed the point so completely! You've taken what amounts to a colloquial reference to...

You are still just making semantic based arguments, JR. I don't care if it was Israel or Zimbabwe. There wasn't any thing special about the nation of Israel in particular aside from the fact that it was descended from Abraham and Issac and Jacob. Had, for whatever reason, God chosen to build a...

Merely calling something a "modal fallacy" is not an argument. You have to identify the actual fallacy. The argument is straightforward: If a future choice is already infallibly true before the chooser exists, then it cannot fail to occur. If it cannot fail to occur, then no genuine...