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Can't say that I do. When you mentioned that you were Catholic, that did ring a bell, but I can't say that I remember you specifically. I mean, I've seen your user name around for a very long time but I don't have you connected in my mind with any particular interaction People don't believe me...

So, I'd have to say that this response has the flavor of truth to it. I also have to say that I'm quite surprised! I really did think you were just making it up! I stand corrected. It seems you were enough of a Calvinist to fellowship with them but came to it via a route that had basically...

I don't care what they believe. Medicare is not justified - at all. I don't care if every Catholic on Earth had fifty kids each. Or does Catholicism not teach that theft is sin?

More or less. I can't say that I've studied it specifically. They worship Mary. Trust in rituals to save them. Believe that Christ's death was not sufficient to pay for one's sins (i.e. Purgatory). Believe that Peter didn't have the mother-in-law that scripture says he had. Believe that Jesus...

Rand's book is the most profoundly important non-biblical book I've ever read.

I originally posted the following on August 4th 2018. There are links that do not work. Proof that the Earth Cannot be Flat The last few days I've been playing around with some math and thought I'd post some of it here to see if it might move some of the flat earthers maybe an inch or two back...

Is flat earth stupidity back?! Flat Earthism has been so totally proven false so many times, I'm still blue in the face to this day over it!

The number kids we've raised is altogether irrelevant!

You're a Catholic? Goes to show how rarely I've interacted with you.

I've also added the following to the very end of the essay.... The Need to Choose There are many who consider themselves Calvinists and yet do not truly understand the system they claim to follow. Some profess to be four-point Calvinists, rejecting limited atonement while holding to the rest...

I've inserted the following after the section that ends post #3.... Addressing Calvinist Counterarguments on Divine Repentance The example of Jonah, in particular, warrants deeper analysis, for it exposes not merely the biblical pattern of divine responsiveness, but the philosophical...

The word Nacham means to repent, Lon. Pretending otherwise is lying to yourself. Never once has anyone - anywhere - ever - translated it as "to sigh" because it DOES NOT mean that - period. It not only doesn't mean that, it never has meant that - EVER! If the word was 6000 years old, it would...

Interesting how I know nothing about what you believe or why you believe it.

He's equal parts arrogant and dishonest. I truly am baffled by such people. I mean, if this were a discussion forum about Corvette restoration or breeding Rottweilers, it would be different, but I simply cannot imaging treating issues that effect one's eternal soul with the hypocrisy, willful...

Your point here is quite valid except that I'm pretty certain that "nacham" does not mean, nor has it ever meant, "to sigh". נָחַם (nacham) does not mean “to sigh.” Here is the scholarly, linguistic, and historical basis for that conclusion: 📚 1. Lexical Consensus All authoritative Hebrew...

Nor were either of them the James who wrote the book of James. Both the Gal. 2 James and the biblical author was the James who was the brother of Jesus and who was not only, BY FAR, the James that most people are referring to when they simply mention "James" but who was also NOT an apostle...

Why? What's the difference between a "modern colloquialism" and any other aspect of modern language? The answer to that question is NOTHING! "Modern colloquialism" is just the term you're assigning a certain set of sounds we use to communicate a particular idea that you don't want for the...

James was not an apostle. There was an apostle named James but he's not the one who was the leader of the church in Jerusalem and the one who wrote the book of James and was the one being spoken of when Paul mentions "men from James". (Gal. 2:12).

Just do the first ten. Well, that and number 100.

Okay, here's one more revamp of my reading list. I was looking through the list this morning and realized that there are a few redundancies that I didn't want in there and so I had those replaced with something distinct. Here's the revised list. Hopefully, this will be a final version! :cool...