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  1. Clete

    Answering old threads thread Part II

    I suspect that adding such complexity to the QB rating system would have less of an effect than you might think. There seems to be something of a diminishing return on adding parameters to such analytics. You sometimes get weird results that end up muddying the water rather than clearing it up...
  2. Clete

    Paul did not write Hebrews; we do not know who did

    More accurately, the Body of Christ has no priesthood. Interesting. You think they were entered into the cannon in order of size? I'm not suggesting that you're wrong. I just hadn't heard that before.
  3. Clete

    Paul did not write Hebrews; we do not know who did

    This doesn't really effect the point you're making but, as usual, your comments lack precision. In actual fact, both "Jesus" and "Joshua" are English transliterations of Latin transliteration of the Greek transliterations of the Hebrew name יְהוֹשׁוּעַ (Yehoshua), which means "Yahweh is...
  4. Clete

    Answering old threads thread Part II

    There's more to a completed pass than the accuracy of the throw. Of course that comment presumes that you are talking about assigning "strike" status to any completed pass and "ball" status to incomplete passes. If so, it would ignore when the quarterback throws the ball away to prevent getting...
  5. Clete

    How To Get To Heaven When You Die

    Quite so! As would be expected, by the way, of any worldview that was, in fact, consistent with reality. Of course the evolutionists claim the exact opposite and can do so precisely because they have no standard of truth. Their theory can (and is) whatever they desire for it to be. This is true...
  6. Clete

    Answering old threads thread Part II

    Derf already said this in so many words but, just to offer my two cents, the plainly read scriptures stand as a standard by which doctrine can be compared and tested. The word "true" means "consistent". We believe the scripture are true because we believe them to be consistent with physical...
  7. Clete

    How To Get To Heaven When You Die

    The law was always under-girded by grace because it was not possible to follow the law flawlessly and so it isn't just many Jews, it's every single Jew that was ever saved was saved ultimately by grace. The difference, however, is in what afforded them that grace; under what circumstances was...
  8. Clete

    Is Prophecy Being Fulfilled in the Dispensation of Grace?

    She doesn't care what God said. She only cares about the emotion that the subject of divorce wells up inside her. It is a barrier that cannot be overcome by any amount of reason. God HIMSELF could not persuade her, as the passage you quote it proof of. She's entrenched and has chosen this hill...
  9. Clete

    Is Prophecy Being Fulfilled in the Dispensation of Grace?

    Well, this is the problem you run into when you are in the habit of not taking the text for what it seems to be saying. Go and find a young kid, something like 10 or 12 years old and read him the passage in John 4 and see what he thinks is going on. He doesn't have the life experience needed to...
  10. Clete

    Is Prophecy Being Fulfilled in the Dispensation of Grace?

    According to you maybe but not according the the law. As I said before, marriage is more than just having sex with someone. Marriage is a legal proceeding where one's legal status is altered. An adulteress is not married to her lover and neither is a fornicator. John 4:17 The woman answered...
  11. Clete

    Is Prophecy Being Fulfilled in the Dispensation of Grace?

    I have said, quite accurately and repeatedly that there IS NO PROHIBITION in the law for a man to take back a divorced wife so long as she has not married another man and so your dismissing God's own use of the divorce imagery, not as a threat but as something that has already taken place...
  12. Clete

    Is Prophecy Being Fulfilled in the Dispensation of Grace?

    I don't understand what it is you think a doctrine is other than "an opinion concerning whether God [fill in the blank]". In any case, it is what I was referring to. I have already conceded and readily so that it is a metaphor. It is a metaphor that God Himself uses to communicate something...
  13. Clete

    On the omniscience of God

    Not much to say in response here except that I can't imagine anyone wanting to read a book written by me. I wouldn't know what to write about that better men haven't already written.
  14. Clete

    Have I gone MAD???

    Excellent verse. I added the word "mortal" to my post to add clarity.
  15. Clete

    Have I gone MAD???

    AMEN! We are identified in God Himself! No need for ANY priest. No mortal mediator of any kind. We are hidden in Him and the Holy Spirit Himself intercedes on our behalf.
  16. Clete

    Have I gone MAD???

    Anyone care to take bets on whether Idolater will concede that Lon failed to "rule out MAD" as he claimed would happen? What's amusing (to me at least) is that by Idolaters own non-MAD premise, the book of Hebrews crushes Catholic doctrines and practices concerning their priesthood and that...
  17. Clete

    Have I gone MAD???

    EXCELLENT POST!
  18. Clete

    On the omniscience of God

    That is what the Calvinists call "permissive will" which just means "everything that actually happens". So, according the the Calvinist there is.... 1. God's "perfect will" which is what God wants or would prefer to have happen. 2. God's "permissive will" which is what actually happens. The...
  19. Clete

    On the omniscience of God

    So you're saying that God doesn't desire to fix the sin problem? That it wasn't God's desire to send His Son to die? I'm not talking about "desire" is some sort of sensual sense. God desires righteousness and justice and He desires to be merciful. He did NOT desire to be merciful at the expense...
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