Recent content by Derf

Logic aint all it's quacked up to be.

Was Jesus then talking about an old church that He was going to add to? (I lost track of this thread, so forgive me if I've asked that already.) The text allows for that, I think, when Jesus says He will "build my church", but I don't think it does when talks of building it on the foundation of...

I congratulate you on your patience.

Not to mention that @Bright Raven probably never heard of them before he started looking for anti-Open Theism sites.

That's no doubt the German word for gypsum, because gypsum causes you to spit when you get the dust in your mouth. :p

Was it God's exhaustive foreknowledge when Isaiah told King Hezekiah that he would die of his illness, or was it God's exhaustive foreknowledge when Isaiah told the king he would survive his illness? Can God have exhaustive foreknowledge of two opposite outcomes for the same person?

I saw your post right after you made it, but haven't had much time to go through it or the pdf you linked to. Here's what it made me think of. I've been listening to old Superman radio episodes on Adam Graham's Old Time Radio Superman Show podcast. (Hang on for the connection.) It's fun...

It didnt seem like @annabenedetti was speaking of the Eucharist, but a building. And I was hoping to point out that His presence is guaranteed when two or more are gathered in His Name (as, say, "CHRISTians"), not dependant on a building. Nor on a sacrament, for that matter. Trying hard to...

Is it mansplaining because you're a woman? Are you saying you can't make rational statements because you're a woman? That surprises me a bit, because it makes it sound like you are admitting that you need someone to explain things to you just because you are a woman.

How does 2000 years fit into 500? Sounds like you are packing into those doors what isn't there usually, your feelings. And @Idolater @idolais right (in a way), that such feelings of "home" should be reserved for Christ, His death and resurrection depicted by the eucharist, and more importantly...

Why did they have Kirk wear a girl's shirt?

You're not looking for the short bus theology club.

Profitable to what end? Are you saying it is profitable to make sure we are saved? Why not just profitable to please our Lord? Maybe if we are faithful in these little things, like being holy like He is holy, then He will put us in charge of greater things. Why just in a metaphorical sense...

This has been a delightful conversation, Vlad. Just wanted get that out there. In general that's what I believe, because God is outside of us. But I'm ok with it not being some kind of stuff, a "someTHING" that exists apart from us. Rather it seems to me to be the power of life that is imparted...

The Young's Literal Translation puts it this way: The Spirit of God hath made me, And the breath of the Mighty doth quicken me. [Job 33:4 YLT] "Quicken" is mostly used to indicate enlivening someone who is dead or dying. If that's true here, then it gives both an original life-giving and a...