Recent content by Idolater

I'm not sure I agree because Enyart's proposal is the assertion in this case—@Clete is pointing out a defeater, which, if it obtains, does defeat Enyart's proposal. I think that you and he have been at loggerheads over whether his proposed defeater obtains—you've been trying to defeat his...

You're going to have to tell me. I was interrogating you to clarify what would motivate you to cease from sin, because I don't get it. Under your view, as best I can tell, there IS no reason really, to cease from sin, so long as you have faith. But then, if you don't have faith, then the same...

It appears that Enyart's proposal allows for subjects to disobey the monarch based on conscience. Additionally if the monarch clearly abdicates there is a succession process. The details of what an implicit abdication might look like can be hammered out. But so long as the right of his...

I'm pretty sure if Clete and JR would agree to some sort of constitutional element which explains what constitutes voluntary abdication on the part of the monarch, that the apparent chasm between them would be bridged, and easily. In Catholicism, for comparison, if a pope teaches manifest...

In your view, I'm not seeing why we would need to mortify the flesh, metaphysically speaking (to use a fake and gay word). Just because you're bored? nothing else to do? I can't find the motive in your view, for resisting temptation—again, metaphysically speaking. Is it just what Catholics...

The everlasting Gospel is preached to Gentiles in Revelation 14:6. $$ Re 14:6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, I wonder if it's related to the...

So therefore in Revelation 14:6 the everlasting Gospel being proclaimed is Paul's Gospel, since it's preached to Gentiles, Gentiles being a subset of all people.

It does if that constitution (the same legal standard) explains it. Yes. And the answer is found in the constitution in question itself, either explicitly or implicitly. I again remind that the Catholic Church's constitution, for comparison, suggests that the pope is judged by no man. This...

It was not commonly known before President Trump's joint action with Israel against Iran, how easy it is for Iran to defend the Strait. It would take an occupation of Iran to dislodge them. Trump for almost 10 years has been saying the rest of the West needs to pony up much more defense...

Vlad I've seen the Matrix movie and I've also seen the Sixth Sense movie, and I think your position on this matter reminds me more of the Sixth Sense, that we are dead people, and we don't know, or forgot, that we're dead. Paul here would be telling us dead people to refrain from sin and...

That's part of the problem. Another part is omission. Kyle Rittenhouse is never mentioned in Leftist journalism at all, and so it's even more effective that whenever they do (rarely) mention him, they describe him haphazardly and hint that he's some kind of criminal, rather than as an innocent...

Dollars to donuts, they're projecting, in whatever complaint they're making, they're guilty themselves of it. They are guilty of animus, and arbitrariness. Whatever they're accusing the Right of, you can bet they are guilty of it instead. That's pretty consistent; you can expect that.

What I'm saying is that Colossians 3 reads like we're not dead in either the spiritual (contra the prima facie interpretation of the text) or the physical realm (it is apparent we're not physically dead), unless we can be spiritually dead but keep having to remember to live as if we are...

So the real question is, What would be the secular equivalent? the kind of act by an absolute monarch that would be parallel to a pope teaching manifest heresy? What would be so clear and unambiguous that the king would be understood to have ipso facto vacated or forfeited the throne, even when...

What's interesting is that he seems to be saying our being dead is metaphorical and not metaphysical, since if it was metaphysical, there would be no need to write Colossians 3, since it seems to be holding our hands as we navigate being dead. Being dead doesn't seem to work that way in...