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This is called "Modalism" and its only been considered a heresy for no more than about one thousand eight hundred years! Sabellius, the father of modalism, was excommunicated for basically this same teaching around AD 220, more than a century before the Council of Nicaea in AD 325. It little...

There's no doubt that AI isn't the near miracle that many people treat it as. I've used Chat GPT enough to know that you absolutely cannot trust it to do anything important entirely on its own. You have to hand hold it and make sure it doesn't cross boundaries or go off onto weird tangents that...

I agree that murder and rape and other such things are wrong. I, however, when asked, can explain to people WHY it is wrong. I'm trying to understand whether you are merely asserting that it is wrong or whether there is a why behind that assertion. Why is murder wrong if there is no God? So...

It's amazing that it makes that much difference. Sticking with Standard time would really super suck for people like yourself! If they do get rid of DST, they should split the difference. It's standard time now, so they could say that we're going to move the clocks up half an hour and then...

Wow! Sunset at 4:46 PM. That seems crazy early. Sunset this evening (Nov. 2) at my house will be at 5:34 PM. Of course, I'm quite far south and just about in the middle of my time zone. If you're a lot further north and live near the east side of your time zone, that would explain the...

Quite so! (y) Excellent!

"Direct Ad Hominem: Insulting the opponent directly instead of evaluating their reasoning." That definition of Ad Hominem is not quite accurate. An ad hominem is a fallacious form of argument, not merely the act of insulting someone in response to some argument that they've presented. If I...

Why is your answer yes?

So, I was rereading my own post above this morning and a thought occurred to me that I have to share here. Notice the impact that the ideas expressed in that post has on things you'd never expect. If rational life is the objective standard of morality, and God is necessarily living, rational and...

Well, this is the first time you've asked me to define the term "life" and this is not nearly so simple a topic as most people who attempt such discussions tend to treat it as. I've spent the better part of a year writing and rewriting a single chapter of a book that makes an argument for the...

Life is the standard. God Himself is the standard in so much as He is Life. And He is Life and so it isn't wrong to say that God is the standard. The only issue is that the vast majority of people don't get what is meant by that statement. Many, particularly atheists, are ready to pounce on it...

The one you posted from the American Heritage Dictionary, unless there's another one I missed, is, in my view, a rather worthless definition. I mean, it's technically correct, but in the context of this discussion, as well as most discussions about morality, it amounts to little more than a...

You don't get to believe anything you want and still meaningfully call yourself a Christian, SQ! And what biblical evidence to have that God created EITHER the physical or spiritual laws in advance? Did it ever occur to you that such laws are not required to be independently created? What we...

Morality applies to God in precisely the same fundamental way that it applies to us, although with one critically important distinction. Morality is grounded in life itself. Life is the standard of morality, and reason is the means by which a rational being identifies what is good and what is...

:ROFLMAO::LOL::ROFLMAO::LOL::ROFLMAO::LOL: I started to say, "You can't be serious!", but I know that you are serious! How can that be possible?!

You are stunningly stupid. Why anyone bothers to "debate" you at length is a mystery I cannot fathom. You do nothing but rationalize and assume things not in evidence and argue against things that have not been said, (nor even implied for that matter).

Wow! Derf might legitimately be the most despicable person on TOL!

When it comes to what God does or does not do, there can be no such thing as an unwarranted action. God is a NECESSARY being, Derf! God is NECESSARILY just. He is NECESSARILY righteous in all ways. An unwarranted action of God is literally a contradiction. It cannot happen. That does not mean...

I did not know Bob's system leaves such things to anyone discretion. If a person has not broken any American laws then he is not answerable to American law. Making him so because he's broken another nation's laws, would be unjust. American authorities, however, do not have to permit his...

So, we're basically back to moral should vs. moral must. At least in principle, even if not in those specific terms. What exactly (i.e.specifically) is it, in the context of criminal justice, that you think is a moral reason that isn't also a moral obligation? Take all the space you need, but...