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  1. Derf

    On the omniscience of God

    Please read more carefully. It is true what you wrote, that foreknowledge doesn't mean the person with foreknowledge determined the events. But it does mean the events are already determined, else the foreknowledge is not trustworthy. Knowing the future perfectly (without error) does indeed...
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    On the omniscience of God

    It's the open theist in @Lon that keeps making an appearance, but then gets stuffed back down.
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    On the omniscience of God

    This is true. But knowing the future without error means that the future is already determined. Your choices, if God knows the future exhaustively, are 1. God determines the future 2. Someone else determines the future. That someone else must be someone in existence at the time all future events...
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    Clown World

    What isn't explained is how they failed to conduct the proper vetting of all members of the chat group that is required for classified conversations in other venues.
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    Clown World

    You probably are correct here. If the Dems did it, it should raise suspicion that it's not a smart thing to do. https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/04/03/exposed-biden-dni-avril-haines-used-signal-all-the-time-n2187475
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    I am familar with the midActs

    Fortunately we both realize that is not much of an answer, so thanks for continuing. Part of a good argument is how well it comport with the whole of scripture. Let's see how we do. Thanks for that clarification. We will use that distinction more. "You see then," is a phrase that means, "the...
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    It wasn't about the tower

    Where did the quoted post cone from?
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    I am familar with the midActs

    Two groups might be clearly seen, but they aren't "the Body of Christ" and "the Circumcision". They are those who once thought works would save them and those who were assured works can't save them. As the first comes to the correct understanding, they begin to acknowledge that the second is...
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    I am familar with the midActs

    :ROFLMAO:
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    Clown World

    That's just you defending the clown world from the inside.
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    How to respond to classical theists who dodge Open Theism arguments

    Yes. The story is provided in 2 different passages. 2 Kings 20 first several verses. Isaiah 38:1-5 is the more detailed account. No, I don't, as I already told you. God has given some things into our hands, and we can do well or poorly with those things. Jess talked about this in the parable of...
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    How to respond to classical theists who dodge Open Theism arguments

    In other words, God, seeing all the possibilities before He created the universe, prearranged everything that was going to happen? This is standard Calvinism. The problem is that it doesn't square with scripture. Go back to the Hezekiah scenario, where God gave two future possibilities of...
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    How to respond to classical theists who dodge Open Theism arguments

    Yes, but I don't see how they apply. Just quoting a verse about scripture does little to help me understand you position. I apologize for a more harshly worded post than I intended, though perhaps you caught the gist better. I guess I don't get the "one accuser" comment. Anyone who writes...
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    Ignoring context creates confusion

    I agree the we's and you's and us's are important, and context is required to know the target groups. But in that chapter and the next Paul makes it clear that he is talking about the church at Corinth and himself...if you actually read the context to glean information from it. He is including...
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    Died Suddenly

    Mia Love just died of brain cancer at 49. Quote from her on The View appearance: “I’m fully vaccinated, I believe that people should get vaccinated,” Love began, clearly about to share a controversial opinion. “I do believe that federal mandates are a slippery slope. But if New York wants to do...
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    A little comedy break....

    Which means, of course, that arranged marriages might work just as well as the other kind.
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    How to respond to classical theists who dodge Open Theism arguments

    That say what? Removed from context of the discussion, I'm unsure of your point. That you sometimes throw in some references to scripture that don't seem to apply? No need to show me that. Thanks, you too!
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    How to respond to classical theists who dodge Open Theism arguments

    See, you didn't find "a" verse.
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    Early Dispensationalists and Mid-Acts

    But not a good association with Macron's "demiurge" theology.
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    How to respond to classical theists who dodge Open Theism arguments

    The discussion just has no meaning if man doesn't have free will. Even our whole conversation is pure drivel if man doesn't have free will with which to have such a discussion. But if man has anything from being made in God's image, it's that he, and He, have the ability to will things and bring...
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