Recent content by Derf

I address this below. I don't think I was too hasty. Hunh. You must be the only person on earth that doesn't. He does, and many here have pointed it out. To which you have decided to go off on a tangent about the phrase "change one's mind." No, it doesn't. I don't think of anyone that tells...

It seems there are some "vs". Like: "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" vs "Mary was sinless from conception".

I went back and read it. You missed an important caveat: with classical theism, it is absurd. Perhaps that's why you dislike the idea so, because it makes your theology absurd (don't blame me, blame chatgpt). The absurdity of classical Theism when compared with the intent of the biblical texts...

Welcome back, Lon. How about "repent"? How about "decided to change his path or direction"? How about "regret"? How about "relent"? All of those are acceptable to Open Theists. All of those are used in various translations of various passages with respect to God. Yes, you can. We speak that...

Here's where he gets the comparison wrong: "The Settled Theist can live a relaxing life of true joy, of true love, of a sure faith, and an unwavering hope..." There's no true joy, true love, sure faith, or hope of any kind if joy, love, faith, and hope were all determined ("settled") for you...

That's an interesting point. If indeed they NEVER asked or wanted to be saved, then I don't see why God would save them.

Agreed. It's as if the death of Christ only covers Adam's sin, or all past sins of the baby's ancestors, and the baby, as he grows, has to do penance to pay for the rest of his sins.

I don't see why they don't have robot medics, too.

Read it last year. It had some good parts, for sure, including the idea that people should work for what they want, stand up for their principles (good ones), do well on anything they attempt. What I didn't like is the way it associated marriage with the other side. At least, marriages that...

And it seems like the doctrine of immutability is cemented in the idea of timelessness

Why are you in a science thread if you don't want to talk about science?

Versions of Christianity? Just 1. Interpretations of the evidence are sometimes different, but the evidence remains steadfast.

All of this applies to us as well. We listen to experts, who likely know more than we do. There is evidence to back up our claims. We actually HAVE researched further. We have access to people that interpret Greek and Hebrew. They don't strike us as people who misrepresent their work. And our...

5000 years ago? 50,000 years ago? 500,000 years ago? 5,000,000 years ago? Do you see that you have a firmed exactly what I said? That you take the word of someone that has no capacity to provide the information? Yes, there are. How does that matter in this conversation? Which of those papers...

Then, you have no idea whether I've been misinformed or not. While you merely take by faith what someone tells you. Perhaps you are the one who has been misinformed.