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By who's definition? By who's definition of "outside"? By who's definition of "purview"? By who's definition of "God"? Do you even care? Do such questions ever touch your mind at all?

It's their motive that I don't understand! Why even bother being a Christian in the first place if you're just going to ignore what God's word plainly says all over the place? And of all the weird things to get stuck on! What's the big deal if God changes His mind? (I know - immutability and all...

This has got to be the single most irrational gem of glaring stupidity posted on TOL in months! There's a crazy dude around here somewhere that thinks Noah's contemporaries invented viruses as a form of biological warfare. You've got him beat! I mean, you don't even do a convincing job of...

I don't doubt that there is a large contingent of very influential evil people in Holywood. That much is super clear. Maybe Hanks is one of them, I don't know. Something a character he was playing did, isn't enough for me to convict the guy on, that's all.

There's a lot of missing emojis.

@Avajs, There is another, just as compelling, reason to reject atheism as false. Atheists almost always embrace naturalism. Meaning that they believe that everything that exists can be explained solely by natural causes and laws, without any supernatural influence; that all reality is...

There's a clear cycle societies go through... A lack of resources yields hardship and hardship demands discipline, and necessity forces people to be rational. Rationality fosters virtue, and virtue strengthens society. As a result, prosperity follows. Prosperity in turn breeds comfort, comfort...

Well, that is more than just a little bit a matter of perspective. Jesus intended to return within the life time of some of His disciples. This means that Jesus' day was as it was in the days of Noah. Societal evil seems to ebb and flow. There have been several periods where evil has peaked...

The best information we have is that Hanks is Greek Orthodox. That is, the best information we have is that Hanks is at least a professing Christian. A silly liberal one to be sure, but a Christian none the less. He certainly was raised a Christian and identifies as a Christian. Further, the...

Not in quotes but that was certainly the point Jesus was making. Precisely! Whether or not He said it in manner that those around Him would understand isn't the point at all. The point is that He did, in fact, say it. Except for when Jesus said, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will...

Yeah, you're probably right. I had only just read about that Marcion guy a few weeks ago and thought that it would help prove the point.

In regard to the idea that Paul and his ministry and message was distinct from that of the other apostles, the teaching goes WAY WAY WAY further back that Darby! From Chat GPT.... The earliest known teaching that sees Paul as distinct from the other apostles and his ministry as separate from...

Last time I checked, the book of John was one of the gospels, right? Not only that, but there are four gospels for a reason. Matthew presents Jesus as King, Mark presents Jesus as servant, Luke presents Jesus as man and John's focus is on the fact that Jesus is God. The point being that it...

John 10:18 No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father.”

LSBG seems not to understand what it means to be dead. He's thinking, I'd wager, that to be dead means to no longer exist. "How can a dead (non-existent) person do anything, much less bring Himself back from non-existence?"

After that post from Derf and the mention of God winning, this seems like a terrific place to inject the following into the discussion, especially since I had very little reaction to it when I put it in it's own thread. It speaks directly to the point about God winning... The following is based...

You can stop saying stupid things of this nature. It only succeeds in making YOU look stupid. I mean, seriously! Is this the "logic and reason" that you base you worldview on? Stupidity. It is not a presumption as I've already explained. It is an argument and I'm quite certain that you know it...

Alright, so your responses just sort of angered me yesterday and I'm really trying hard to not respond so often when my response is more a reaction than anything else and so with that in mind, I'm going to post a new, more dispassionate response to your reaction to the argument I've presented...

Impossible. Literally this is impossible. Since when do we formulate our doctrines on extra-biblical sources, Idolater? Hmm? They definitely were NOT expecting any such thing. Had they done so, they would not have agreed with Paul to stay in Jerusalem and minister only to the circumcision. In...

Perhaps, but that's more benefit of the doubt than I am willing to give.