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Seem to disappear? This sounds like a problem of perception/perspective... One night a man had a dream. He dreamed he was walking along the beach with the Lord. Across the sky flashed scenes from his life. For each scene, he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand: one belonging to him...

Do we agree that law necessarily involves enforcement? If we do, it was a waste of time for you to have written the entire rest of your post because under Bob's proposed system there can be no enforcement against the king. No enforcement equals no law, by your own stated argument. Notice that...

During the Millennium Christ will be the literal King of Kings. He will be the highest sovereign authority over all other authority on the planet. If the ruler (whether he's a "king" or not) is sufficiently "bad", as you put it, Jesus will deal with that ruler as needed. The country with the bad...

It ridiculous/hysterical that Author Brain pretends to be offended by the fact that people are annoyed when he intentionally refuses to give a straight answer to the simplest of questions! What is it that makes life bearable for people who have turned off their minds?!

Alright, so the fact that you've reduced your position to three foundational premises, is genuine progress, but the problem is that I am now fully convinced that our disagreement to be axiomatic. What I can't tell yet is whether you're able to see it. You believe a constitution remains the...

At this point (actually its probably been for a long time) your engaging with this idiot is only serving to grant him legitimacy that he hasn't ever deserved but might have been afforded because of some doubt that existed as to whether he was coming from a place of honest error. He is not. His...

You are a stupid waste of time. Good bye!

First, I want to thank you for reducing your position to three foundational premises. This is exactly the sort of discussion I've been hoping we could have. I think we've finally gotten past responding to one another a sentence at a time and have reached the actual point of disagreement. Having...

No one cares what YOU see! That is just exactly the entire point! It isn't about what you or anyone else thinks they see. It's about taking God's word at face value (i.e. allowing the text to mean what it seems to mean) unless and until there is OBJECTIVE and rationally sound reasons to do...

Classical theists always want to say that God's knowledge is exhaustive and immutable. But when they come to Genesis 18:21, 'I will go down now and see....and if not, I will know', which is clearly a statement that God does not already possess sort of omniscience that Plato, Aristotle, and...

Perfect!

The guilt of a criminal does not ever create any jurisdiction of any kind. The jurisdiction is created by the law. And the sense in which it is self-contradictory is when you propose to be creating a just legal system while leaving a know murderer as the highest judge. Would you allow any other...

Everything!

I didn't say you were defending murder or a murderer. This is a perfect example of why this discussion has been stuck for years. You keep responding to arguments I have not made and ignore the perfectly obvious manner in which your so called unanswered arguments have been either answered...

That is not the rule of law! That is injustice - by definition. More than that, it is a system based on injustice by virtue of the fact that a known murder is permitted to remain as it's chief magistrate and commander in chief. You claim to be defending a system based on justice while openly...

I'm stupid for doing so but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt enough to see if you'll answer one question with a straight answer... What happens when the king is caught murdering one of his generals? There's no doubt he did it, he doesn't even deny it. What happens?

We're done. We can start again when you desire to be honest. I warned you - twice.

Well, we've regressed back to several months ago. So be it. It doesn't follow because that's not what I'm arguing. No one, other than you, has said a single word about "a higher domestic authority". That is, other than the constitution itself (i.e. other than the law itself). You keep...

Okay, now I think we're really making some progress! The discussion has now reached the question that lies beneath nearly everything else we have been debating. The central issue is not simply whether a wicked king might be removed, nor is it merely where final earthly authority terminates. The...

This is like suggesting that bubble gum is "related" to ancient Greek philosophy because the ancient Greeks were among the first to chew a form of gum. Sharing one point of agreement does not make two systems related in any meaningful sense. The Socinians (a group I've never heard of before...