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Granting for the sake of argument that such a flaw actually exists, it isn't nearly as flawed as 16th century English is different in both usage and meaning from modern English. In effect, the entire KJV is flawed because we no longer think, read or speak 16th century English.

I'll answer twice.... 1. What if EVERY SINGLE Greek (and Hebrew) word in the entire bible was translated into a version of the English language that is no longer being used? 2. Errors are obviously possible and we can hope for a perfect translation but at the end of the day, its a translation...

Problem? No, not really a "problem" as though I can't understand it but that doesn't mean it doesn't sound foreign or that it isn't more difficult than it needs to be, especially when trying to read longer passages. Also, for the uninitiated, the King James can be quite difficult indeed. The...

Its called the New King James for a reason. It is translated from the same texts that the King James was translated from. The rare and slight deviations from the King James are insignificant in comparison to the degree to which modern English has departed from late 16th and early 17th century...

Saying it doesn't make it so.

Completely brilliant point! Incidentally, you should consider switching to the NKJV. Forty three year old English is easier to read and understand than 411 year old English.

You should have left out the phrase, "for me". Calvinism is either true or its false. It isn't a matter of personal opinion. Last year? Do you mean because of COVID? Clete Welcome to TOL, by the way!

The later being the foundation of the former, by the way, which I say just to reiterate my point earlier about most of what passes for science today is done from an atheistic paradigm. Atheistic science cannot keep from failing because logic itself doesn't work if God does not exist.

(y) No, it isn't. God is good! Deuteronomy 32:4 He is the Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice, A God of truth and without injustice; Righteous and upright is He. Psalm 118:1 Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever. (see also Psalm 136:1)...

No it isn't. You said it yourself. Your post is still there for the whole world to read. It is precisely the lack of interpretation that you reject. It is when Christian take the word of God to mean what it says that you cringe. You're confusing evidence for proof and yes, you are taking their...

“We cannot assign any reason for his bestowing mercy on his people, but just as it so pleases him, neither can we have any reason for his reprobating others but his will.” (John Calvin, Institutes of Christian Religion, Book 3, Chapter 22, Paragraph 11) Anyone who either rewards or punishes...

The rings of a tree are NOT part of the tree's structure. They are a result of faster growth in summer than in winter. A tree without rings would look like wood looks like today without the stripes. There are trees alive today that have virtually no rings, by the way. Trees that grow in regions...

Fantasy! You should buy an island! There is no reason to believe that the first trees had growth rings. There weren't grown, they were created. Nor is there any real evidence that the Earth is anywhere near as old as main stream geology would like for you to believe. (List of Not So Old...

As predicted, b57 simply ignores the argument and merely restates his doctrine as though it hasn't been refuted. A god that predestines people to an eternal Hell before they've ever done anything to deserve such a fate is unjust, by definition. Calvinism's doctrine is actually even worse than...

Notice the hard bent away from taking God at His word and toward taking Einstein (or any other scientist) at his. No one with any honesty at all denies that dinosaurs existed and I know of no fundamentalist who doesn't recognize the existence of symbolic, allegoric and poetic language...

@beloved57 is the best argument against Calvinism any Christian could ever hope to make. All we really have to do is sit back and let him shoot his mouth off. Not if God is just, it isn't! Now, sit back and watch how b57 ignores that argument. He WILL NOT address it AT ALL or, if he does...

Translation: "...its God alone that makes one to differ, who goes to Hell." Calvinists are literally stupid. They compartmentalize every individual thought in their head! They seem to forget when saying nonsense like what is quoted above that God meticulous control doesn't begin or end with...

I agree that it is a flaw and I believe it is one that can be rectified but even if it weren't or can't be, it would be a far superior system to the tyranny of the loudest minority that we've turned this nation into and that it was always destined, by its very nature, to become. The fact is...

It isn't an absolute monarchy. The king would have no authority to make fiat law as would be the case in an absolute monarchy. What we have today in America, where Presidents can forgive debts at will, persecute political enemies without due process of law and arbitrarily decide whether or not...

This is technically true if you're limiting the use of the term "peer review" to the process that a scientific journal uses when evaluating studies to publish in their journal. To that extent, "peer review" is little more than the review an editorial board of a news paper does before publishing...