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By the way, I'm not 100% satisfied with the opening post. I keep making tweaks to the wording of it here and there. Not enough to change the point being made though. I've just been trying to add a little flair, a touch more eloquence, to my posts lately. It's just a new way to keep me engaged...

No they are not! The authority to enforce criminal justice is a delegated authority that is limited. God did not give the government carte blanche to do anything that God Himself has the authority to do. The government was not placed in a position equal with God in authority, not even close...

I swear it's as if you guys cannot follow what is a very linear and quite simple line of reasoning. If you killed someone (or a whole group of someones) in self-defense then it is you who would get the legal due process in order to establish that it was self-defense and that you had...

Again, my point was predicated on the lack of due process. You can make up stuff for the hypothetical all you want, it doesn't change the point. Those killed by the government agent without due process are murder victims. Please read the following... Moving the goalposts Are we talking about...

This sort of error is what happens when you don't let the bible dictate your doctrine. If Jesus died and was buried on Mount Zion (i.e. where the Catholic sites are located) then He wasn't the Messiah, He wasn't the Passover Lamb and Christianity is false. It's just exactly that big of an...

This is non-responsive. It's a hypothetical scenario. If there's no due process then my point stands, if there is then it doesn't apply. Which is why my due process point works. How is that relevant? We don't have mass executions of pedophiles either, right?

Well, using the term "work" is going to cause confusion in Christian circles but suffice it to say that you have to have the concepts correct, not just the words. It is precisely this issue that will find a lot of Calvinists and Catholics in big trouble on judgement day. Death is a separation...

Sanctuary cities (also called cities of refuge) were established in ancient Israel to provide temporary protection for someone who accidentally killed another person. The law recognized that emotions run high when someone dies. The avenger of blood (a family member of the victim) might...

Not without due process. They must be convicted of a capital crime before the government can kill them at all and even then it would be weird for the government to send out a posse to just kill them on sight, especially if it were a large number of them. 1 Thessalonians 5:22 Abstain from all...

I agree that it can be used as a figure of speech in that not every crime it's used in reference to has anything to do with eyes, but don't you agree that if someone causes someone else to lose an eye because of either negligence or overt criminal behavior that the offender must forfeit his own eye?

Those two conditions are loaded with meaning that imply other conditions as well. In order to be saved one must believe the following things... God exists and is the Creator of all things and He is perfect, holy, and just. We, having willfully done evil things and rebelled against God, who...

He is definitely a Mormon. I don't care where he went to school.

As promised.... Why Morality is Absolute!

Why Morality Is Absolute—and What That Actually Means Christians often claim that morality is absolute, but they rarely explain why. Indeed, most don’t even know why and would be very hard-pressed to explain why if challenged to do so. Even most pastors would have a hard time giving more than a...

Definitely, hard core, prepper style Mormon!

Well, then if you're agreeing me then I guess I'll stop arguing! :cool: (That's a joke, of course.) It doesn't look like there's much of any real disagreement at all! (y)

My biggest surprise when reading Lewis' work is the degree to which he believed in not only several Augustinian doctrines but the degree to which he gladly gives credit to Aristotle and Plato for them as if it's entirely natural that pagan Greek philosophy should be made a part of Christian...

It seems to me that you guys are more or less talking past one another because one's response is formulated from a different paradigm than what it being responded too. Criminal justice is about just that, JUSTICE! God has given it to the governing official to enforce justice - not vengeance...

I suppose that my real point was (is) that it isn't quite as simple as your post #2 makes it seem. When it comes to the markets, the simple fact of life is that the vast majority of people are wrong about which way its going to go. The masses tend to buy the tops and sell the bottoms and it is...

I had Chat GPT help me write that opening post in such a way that, if you've read that post, you've got a really good understanding of the arguments Lewis makes in the book. I'm writing a similar summary of Lewis' "Miracles" now.