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That's an interesting passage. So the servant is thinking, "I love my master, plus, if I go, he's going to keep my wife and kids for himself. So I'll stay." That's an interesting choice. I'm sure culturally it was different then and usually people would just up and leave their wife and...

So your concern all along has been the invasion of religion into politics? iow you believe in the separation between Church and State, and when Constantine made his edict of Laodicea or whatever it was is ... what? to you? Is that like when the Church lost her purity or innocence in history...

When Scripture says God is light, is it metaphor? like when it says God is love? or God is holy? or God is One? or God is a rock? Or are we supposed to take it literally? Because if the Scripture is literal where it says God is light, then of course light is not created. But if light is...

Meaning the Church oughtn't condescend to anybody no matter how confused and disordered and demon possessed they might be. Who's saying otherwise? I actually don't know exactly what you're talking about, so I'll perhaps haphazardly suppose that you're concerned about transgender people being...

It has to do with "Christian observance," "innovation," "during the reign of Constantine," and, "has no scriptural backing." Isn't this all about Sunday and the Lord's Day and when the Church /churches would gather together to break bread? Are you saying the interpretation of the Lord's Day...

He's emphasizing that they are of equal value to all the other humans. See? Partisan.

Unless you analyze what he's actually said and done regarding the matter I'm afraid all you'll find is discussion of the controversy surrounding what the pope's up to. For example calling it the "embracing of transgenderism" is partisan. Yep.

"On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread" Acts 20:7

I "acquiesced" to a non-Deistic understanding of the World. Why are heavy things heavy things, ultimately? in a non-Deistic Universe? It's because God is pulling on them, and He seems to pull on them toward the center of mass of large objects, that's what Newton said, and that's what Einstein...

They're everywhere lol! An argument from silence is, “There is no tradition that the Apostle John died, therefore, the Apostle John is dead.” That is clearly a fallacy. Compare it with this, “There is a tradition that Christ rose from the dead, therefore He did rise from the dead.” That is...

I also read that (Ephesians 6) to mean that the attack is a demonic idea and plot, not any man's or organization's idea or plan. That's why Paul says "not ... against flesh and blood," even though both Rome and Jerusalem were wrestling against them. So even if we find A.I. is demonically...

You might be able to do 20-30 hard sets a week of full range of motion grip exercises a week and recover. I wonder if the effect is causal or just coincidence (like, if your heart is strong then maybe that just translates into having a stronger grip? maybe getting a stronger grip won't give you...

Clete's thread title inspired me. https://theologyonline.com/threads/our-moral-god.55115/ (Thanks, Clete!) There's a point-of-view where when we look at God from there, God looks shrewd. God is love, God is just, God is holy, God is merciful and gracious, but God is also shrewd. Can anyone...

I appreciate it. I'm following /watching the thread and I'll pitch in when I can, when the spirit moves me; whenever I can. I'm not going to just play Devil's advocate just for the sake of it, and I won't clog it up if I have nothing novel to offer either. If that's OK.

I don't understand. Peter says to the Circumcision (according to Dispensationalism, I'm just stating it plainly, not to fight, but to document) But let none of you suffer as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer, or as a busybody in other people’s matters. 16 Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian...

Completely ridiculous. "Nope, you made that up."

lol the pope is not psychotic. Get a grip.

Mid-Acts! He was corrected on the road to Damascus, and thereafter. Up to Acts 9 he "believed something wrongly." The Scripture doesn't show Our Lord correcting Paul, Paul only mentions that he learned from Him face-to-face through very clear miraculous divine intervention and revelation to...

Yes, 100% understood. I just want to make sure I don't lose this post of yours, for whenever we do get there, because it dawned on me too late for me to followup on it with you in that conversation; this link to the post is just for posterity, for when we get there; sorry to interrupt; carry...

It depends which metaphysic (metaphysical theory). In his theory, gravitation is an abduction of the God concept. Partially of course, but nonetheless in a real way it offends his concept of God, he is righteously indignant at the sacrilege. Newton believed gravity is ontic, it is real, it...