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Stories like Hezekiah's make Open Theism the only viable option. I don't understand the reluctance to except it as the obvious truth that it is. What is the profit that anyone derives from believing that God knows everything in advance such that it makes it impossible for them to understand such...

Excellent post, Nolan! The problem, it seems to me, is a cultural one and it isn't going to get fixed by any conventional means except on a very local level and even then only sparingly. On the macro level, the church has always been a reflection of the society. It's policies, practices and...

I'm not convinced that this is so. He spoke and the wind and waves obeyed Him. People were healed by merely touching the hem of the garment He was wearing. In fact, with only a very few exceptions all of His miracle were performed without anything other than the expression of His will. It seems...

Sheesh. How boring. It's logic! Plain reason! Logic is the solitary means by which the chaos of raw data is distilled into coherent meaning. It is by the rigorous application of reason that we sift truth from mere noise, transforming abstract symbols into meaning, comprehension and...

Peter could have repented. Eve could have told the serpent, "NO!" and Adam could have told Eve, "NO!".

No, that isn't right. We are not Israel, Idolater! The parable pertains to the NATION of Israel, not every individual believer - not even every individual Jew!

I am not suggesting that I came up with the means of clarifying such things, I am suggesting that there is one, and only one, way to do so. Go ahead, give it a guess! I promise that if you don't get it on your next post then I'll let you off the hook here and we can proceed on from there. LOL...

I'd say that it’s a valid point to ask whether one or two of his books could suffice. I have not yet read any of Sowell's books and so can't respond directly. I did, however, ask Chat GPT to respond to your criticism... To directly address the critique: Why five books? Sowell has written...

You've got me beat! I haven't read but a half dozen or so of them.

As you say, it is a place to start but I ask the question, not to discuss evidence per se, but to get to your more fundamental presuppositions. I know that such leading questions can get tiresome and so I won't string you along for much longer. You're already very close to the answer. Notice...

I've posted a summary of the first book here..... The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis

The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis is the first book in a new list of 100 books that everyone should read that I recently posted. I finished reading it yesterday and so I though I'd post a summary of the book here.... Summary of The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis In The Abolition of Man...

The premise of your implied argument here would suggest otherwise. I'd wager that you have no idea what the bible actually teaches about almost anything. He has done precisely that! It is human beings that confuse it - very often on purpose. On the contrary. I will prove it - if you stick...

Don't end up making the same idiot mistake the Ayn Rand made and think that everything that passes for Christianity even remotely resembles what the bible actually teaches. First and foremost my worldview is rational and it is Christian only in the sense that it is consistent with what the...

I don't follow.

There is no evidence to support that the fig tree represents anything else.... Hosea 9:10 – "I found Israel Like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers As the firstfruits on the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal Peor, And separated themselves to that shame; They became...

A week. Of course, there is no way to be dogmatic about that answer but there is good reason to accept the conjecture that Adam and Even fell on the following Friday. See the link in JudgeRightly's post for details. I'm curious to know why that would have been your first question.

The difference is free will or the lack thereof and, by extension, the existence of justice or the lack thereof.

Here's a hint... The fig tree is Israel. The fruit is faith.

Death, in the biblical sense of the word, is always a spiritual separation. Physical death happens when one's spirit separates from the body. Spiritual death is when the spirit of a man (human) is separated from God. It is the later of these two that definitely would not have occurred prior to...