Recent content by Idolater

Thank you. :e4e:

The dog that didn't bark. Anna, Arthur, and Commonsense have all visited TOL since the OP was published, and engaged (with posts, with a 'like'), and none of them have commented or anything on the OP—which prima facie should make them happy. Why would that be? These three are some of...

Premise 2 says a past event is now-necessary. OK: a millisecond ago is past. Therefore pastness contributes nothing to the argument. The only thing that makes God's past belief true is the act it's supposed to constrain. So the necessity is borrowed from the act, and the transfer at Premise 5...

That claim, which I ask you btw to quote/cite, is mere recognition that the early Church was One, and it was this One Church which recognized what we all today call the Bible. I am independent and unbiased through hard work and honesty. I have concluded that Catholicism is constitutionally...

If that argument succeeds, then yes it certainly does, it would prove that any foreknowledge is incompatible with free will. ofc, no argument. Yes. The beginning of my argument is to focus on the argument @way 2 go quoted and that some Open Viewers here have endorsed. If that argument...

Catholicism ofc asserts that all Scripture is the Word of God. Another Scripture that Catholicism fully asserts.

“ Whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to possess AR-15 platform and similar semiautomatic rifles. ” This imo promises to be another landmark Supreme Court case re the Second Amendment. The Supremes will hear the case in early December 2026. It affects especially...

I'll try. Below is Way 2 Go's post containing an argument Open Theists use to refute the coexistence of foreknowledge and free will: This thread is about exhaustive foreknowledge, but if you endorse the above argument, you would reject any foreknowledge at all, as being mutually exclusive...

“ §1260 "Since Christ died for all, and since all men are in fact called to one and the same destiny, which is divine, we must hold that the Holy Spirit offers to all the possibility of being made partakers, in a way known to God, of the Paschal mystery." Every man who is ignorant of the Gospel...

“ §838 The Church knows that she is joined in many ways to the baptized who are honored by the name of Christian, but do not profess the Catholic faith in its entirety or have not preserved unity or communion under the successor of Peter. Those who believe in Christ and have been properly...

The only "rule" is to "believe in Christ".

Being the only Catholic on TOL who engages in the theological side of things, I'm supposing this is addressed to me. We don't reject grace.

This thread's been immensely interesting for me as a Catholic because it bears on the Catholic Church's own constitution, which includes the papacy and the episcopate, with the pope wielding absolute ecclesiastical power, being judged by no man. The dispute between JR and Clete is the scenario...

Anybody here familiar with either Huemer or Budziszewski? Huemer defends "ethical intuitionism" and is a moral realist, while Budziszewski is a natural law moral theorist, and a Christian. Budziszewski's particularly main point is that moral skeptics are usually not really morally skeptical...

I think this is a constructive addition to the thread RD.