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I agree with all that.

Has anybody ever yet fed generative A.I. with the whole Bible and ask the A.I. what the Bible's about?

Barbarian literally destroyed the O.P. in post number two: https://theologyonline.com/threads/how-plumbing-not-vaccines-eradicated-disease.26670/

Another very old thread, a good one: One of the answers I gave in another thread applies: And worth noting that they'd be regulated at, but I can't say at here. Implied profanity or vulgarity or something like that. It's unfortunate when you're censored from saying something. You have to...

Totally agree. Otherwise Jesus committed ad hominem all the time. And that's impossible. We measure logic according to His measuring tape: Whatever we know about logic, we know Jesus Christ is not illogical; So therefore nothing He ever said or did could possibly be illogical, and if it...

That's a nice metaphor. Props. Didn't you just suggest that two-thirds of the angels were not swept away by Satan's tail, and that two-thirds of mankind will perish eternally? Isn't that the same side of the equation? I must be misunderstanding. Where's that "eek" emoji when you need it...

That's fine Clete. But what you can't show because there's no proof of it, is that there were no believers in Corinth before Paul got there, what? like 13 years after Peter pierced the hearts of those present in Palestine on Pentecost in c. A.D. 33? You can't show that, and meanwhile we can...

I think it's the bishops. I think John here is writing not as an Apostle as if he is a towering authority over everybody else, but that he's just another bishop, like how Peter wrote his epistles. He wasn't saying, "Hey, I'm Saint Peter and you're not! Now listen to me!" Peter's epistles read...

Yeah. I think that's basically by analogy the "Constitutional Originalist" postition on the matter: c. It's not open for debate, it's a matter of study and scholarship, not an opportunity to advance your ideology. If you want to advance your ideology, you're going to have to introduce...

What do you mean by this? I read the rest of your post thinking it'd clarify but it didn't. Can you talk more about this? In a sense the whole Bible is written right directly to all those of us who believe in God, and in another sense to every man, woman and child without exception. Although...

This for some reason prompted the thought that this is what this country did with the slave trade. It permitted slavery and in such an environment the natural economic forces brought about two things, consolidation and centralization of the slave trade. Where before, there were many slave...

It's here for all to see RD.

Of course it does. It comports with John 3:16 for one thing, but also with later on in the letter, 1st Corinthians 15:3, viz. "Christ died for our sins" In the same way that He is our Passover Lamb, He "died for our sins." It's the same thing. And not even Dispensationalism denies that 1st...

idk about that. Seems to me that without demons "whispering" to Eve, that she could have obeyed God and avoided that tree. Certainly the Serpent is an important character in the story's plot. I said already this is important for theology but it's just as important for theism generally. Why...

Do you think any of this bears on Luke 10? "17 The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!” 18 And he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven." One could argue the number 666 represents 2/3 (666 being roughly 2/3 of 1000)...

OK. I guess that does avoid the problem of why God would give the World to Adam and Eve, with demons included then. Because there were no demons until Satan fell /rebelled, right there in Genesis. That would also explain why God would call His creation "Very Good," because at that point, it...

Thank you. So that's why he was in the Garden? is what you're saying? Because he got kicked out of Heaven? So the only realm left was Earth? Why couldn't God have just killed him? This is why I'm saying it's very important for theology to deal with this Scriptural fact of the Accuser's...

You stand corrected by me, not by JR. Whether it's rendered "Passover" or "Lamb," either way you lost the argument. It's here for everyone to see. And by you I mean Dispensationalists.

Test the spirits. When we're reading Scripture, we're reading the Holy Spirit (that's what Catholics believe), so whatever spiritual proposal we're considering, if it conflicts with Scripture that's one test. It might not test out, in which case, you can ignore that idea, forever, permanently...

Here are two Catholic treasures, Father Mike Schmitz, and Father Casey Cole. Note the second video was just before Fr. Casey was ordained (so he was not "Father" yet).