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At Calvary Author: William R. Newell (1895) 1 Years I spent in vanity and pride, Caring not my Lord was crucified, Knowing not it was for me He died on Calvary. Refrain: Mercy there was great and grace was free, Pardon there was multiplied to me, There my burdened soul found liberty– At...

The point you make about this being a case of "same word, different dictionary" is a good one. I'd say that the same extends even to the "office" of Bishop, the RCC version of which does not exist in scripture. This is true also of the "offices" of priest and deacon, both of which bear no...

Is this what you really believe? (That's a real question.)

I just wanted to say here that I'm content with living with the uncertainty in the passages in question. The firmament that God called "Heaven" is clearly talking about that which we are looking at when we look up at the sky. What it means by the firmament dividing waters from waters is rather...

You say, "No" and then make the exact argument that you just denied that you were making. Talking about confusing. You're saying "it's confusing to the reader" and therefore that isn't the way to understand it because God is not the author of confusion. Are you not? Well, just because you're...

Yeah, so what? They aren't rigid. That's just the entire point. So are we! That is, we were designed by a person (He wasn't a human at the time, of course) and we execute per that design. Even our fallen condition, being as a result of sin, has something to do with how we are made. Angels, are...

Wow! Those images are way bigger than I thought they were! They're much smaller in the Chat GPT app!

I think we have a different understanding of what "following rigid instructions" means. Don't you think there is a difference between following rigid instructions vs. predicting and generating language using statistical associations between words and concepts? It seems to me that if it were...

Well, that's just exactly the point I just made, isn't it? How did you not just undermine your own use of 1 Corinthians 14:33? Have I been misunderstanding your use of this argument? Have you not been basically using it as a way of saying that your position is superior because your position is...

I’m no expert, but I’ve seen enough to say that AI, especially models like ChatGPT, is often underestimated. While it doesn’t “understand” language in the human sense, it processes it in a sophisticated way. These models generate responses based on patterns learned from extensive datasets rather...

So, I've seen you say this on more than one occasion and I don't think it as valid or as compelling as you want to pretend it to be. If your use of 1 Corinthians 14:33 was proper then it would mean that Occam's Razor wasn't merely a good lens to use when looking at a particular hypothesis but...

You might not want to over simplify A.I. There's a lot going on with it that is not directly related to the actual code within a computer program. The systems involved are wildly complex beyond anything any programmer could even understand, never mind be given credit for creating. Even the...

That's what I said. You said the terms are synonymous which is flatly false. They are not synonyms by any definition. Metaphysics that "do not change" was Aristotle's notion. That is not a modern understanding the term. You really should read something on the subject that isn't 2300 years old...

I invite you to read the following.... Do You Understand the Words That Are Coming Out of My Mouth!?

Do you really not understand these things or are you just being a jerk or what? Don't be obtuse. I've answered your question. There is no contradiction and you know it. What are you driving at here?

Thank you for conceding the point. You might have bothered to look up the term before making dogmatic statements about it.

A bit of both, I'd say. Theology is metaphysical, but is God Himself? Jesus is a human being with a real physical body that can be perceived in normal physical ways (i.e. it can be seen, touched, etc), but talking about Jesus' physical body and the fact the He has one, isn't necessarily the...

That's completely false. Ontology is a branch of metaphysics but it no more synonymous than are the terms philosophy and theology. False. Time exist as the idea that it is. It is one of the concepts the best communicates the concept of the "metaphysical". It is pure abstraction. It does not...

The Unclouded Day Author: J. K. Alwood (1885) 1 O they tell me of a home far beyond the skies, O they tell me of a home far away; O they tell me of a home where no storm clouds rise; O they tell me of an uncloudy day. Refrain: O the land of cloudless day, O the land of an uncloudy day. O they...

It isn't that complicated. Metaphysical refers to things that do not exist ontologically. The earth exists ontologically. Time does not. The former is physical, the later is metaphysical. The physical refers to the material world and everything that can be observed, measured, and studied through...