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Okay, wow! It's official. I can no longer remember a time when anyone on TOL ever changed their mind about anything, no matter what anyone said or how they said it.

I've been fascinated by the whole topic of paradigm shifts for quite a while. It turns out that our brains are sort of wired to resist paradigm shifts and people who accept them usually aren't aware that they are on a course that will lead to such a shift until it actually happens. This is why...

Well, except for the answer, "The ministry of the Twelve changed when Israel was cut off.", which is the only rationally consistent answer anyone could give. I met a Baptist pastor one time that really did believe that Paul was the rightful replacement of Judas. His whole argument was to point...

All points made that suggest that you know how to translate the bible better than every person who has ever translated the bible into English since William Tyndale will be ignored. This is unresponsive and attempts to redirect the issue by simply recasting it from within your paradigm. In...

Care to make even the slightest attempt to show me even one single example of poor grammar in scripture? NO! Typos are mistakes. What you're doing is no mistake. You are INTENTIONALLY insisting on using flagrantly poor grammar FOR NO GOOD REASON! At this point it isn't even about the grammar...

Like falsely accusing someone of trying to get you banned with no evidence whatsoever, is that the sort of graciousness you're looking for? May God bless you, according to your actions.

Matthew 6:24 is hyperbole. "Cannot" does not mean "completely incapable of doing". It's analogous to when Paul states that "all Israel will be saved". "All" does not mean "every single one". In fact, in that context, it just means "a significant portion". It's a common figure of speech that...

So, your point is that you know how to translate New Testament Greek better than those who translated every known English bible in existence? Is that really the point you want to try to make? Let me just tell you, no, you do not know New Testament Greek sufficiently to make any such argument...

It isn't scripure's grammer that poor, its yours! You are the one insisting on using what you've been repeatedly and accurately told is a double negative and its been explained to you, in I'd don't know how many ways, why its confusing/misleading/wrong, and yet you stubbornly persist in its use...

Here's a hint, Hoping... Simply contradicting someone isn't what the word "refuting" means in the context of a debate forum. In the context of debating something, to refute something is to demonstrate (i.e. prove) that something is false. You've refuted nothing. Nothing whatsoever. You've...

Standing ground on poor grammar is stupidity in action.

Stuborness is foolishness.

The premise being here that you're expressing the same concept, which isn't clearly the case. For you to say that there is "No indication that it (the flood) was not global." is grammatically identical to me saying that there is no indication that you're not good person. The construct, when...

Anyone want to take odds on whether Hoping has redefined the word "sin" to fit his belief that he no longer commits it? Anyone want to bet against the idea that Hoping's "sinlessness" is identical in nature to his "literal death" in Christ? It's the equivalent to how my, now long dead of...

Brilliantly stated. You should (and probably do) know that he already knew all of that before you wrote it. He knows exactly what he's doing and he's doing it on purpose. He's just a troll. Pure and simple. The alternative is a level of stupidity that would render him incapable of using a...

I didn't suggest otherwise. You're just being stubborn. That is, there's nothing to suggest that you are being something other than stubborn just like there's nothing to suggest that you're abusive to your spouse or that you have dead bodies buried in your back yard or that you were abducted...

The point Right Divider is making here is that stating that there isn't any indication that it wasn't global ignores the fact that it affirmatively states that it was global. Your statement is like standing in a room with the lights on and saying that there's no indication that the light is...

Speculation is terrific. It can really be super useful, even in a purely scientific endeavor. The problem comes when the scientist gets speculation confused with observational science and starts pretending like they're the same thing, which seems to be the basic premise that the Discovery...

Not according to the context it doesn't mean that at all. According to James, "works" means.... "enduring temptation" (James 1:12) being "swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath" (James 1:19) "laying aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness" (James 1:21) Meekness (James 1:21) being...

It's almost as if the folks over at the Thunderbolts Project have been reading this thread.....