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Your are confusing Judaizing with Jews. They aren't the same. There is a difference. Question: What is that difference? It is important. You may need to read Galatians to be able to grasp the answer. It isn't obscure, fairly evident but I can help if need be. The question: What...

I will come back to the larger portion as time allows. At the moment, however, is an embrace of agreement, despite what we deem cognitive dissonance in/from the other (a forest for trees observation). It is my estimation Open Theism gives up too much ground of the nature of God and honor...

Realize I have been where you are at. I've been called Mid Acts because I'm definitely grace theology, but it means, without knowing I was Mid Acts, I'm likely Mid Acts simply because of this particular. In a nutshell, after wrestling a long time with James with Galatians and Ephesians, I...

Not really a point of contention. No, not at all. Question: Do you take a sword against all ungodly neighbors today? Why not? The answer from Mid Acts is along the same reasoning. Yes. I think frustration reigns after a lot of the same conversation over and over. This thread I...

Request: Go back up and try a line-by-line response to his post #203 (or if he likes, one more important to him, but #203 for me). I'll try to help as if I were you for a template (realize I'm only able to guess and will have some of it wrong): (Asking questions helps to dig over the...

1) I didn't intend to, but this is my prerogative ▲ 2) Sure, my first drafts aren't gold. Never have been. I wasn't picking on LCD, went quite a long ways to ask simply because I didn't want to assume. 3) You were out of conversation several pages ago. If you say something intelligent...

Was at one time. Whether this particular is from an unbliever, you and I don't know. Rather it was an accurate discussion of time and important intimations upon its premise. Baloney. He said "stupid." That was the end of the rebuttal. Saying it doesn't make it so. It is the only...

Nope. You need to read the link. It gives all perspectives on time as well as respecting the need for time to be ontological in science. Not only that, it was a rebuttal to 'stupid.' Who are we to call PhD's 'stupid?' It isn't that we can't say it, but hesitantly no? I better well...

Because 'see' can mean so many things. It doesn't always have to mean 'discovery.' Rather to see is just and only 'see.' To witness, to be with, etc. etc. etc. Open Theism draws a narrow view, forgive the unintended pun, but it illustrates the need.

Harvard disagrees with you. Harvard disagrees with you. Saying it doesn't make it so, nor is this ANY kind of rebuttal. It is relegated to rubbish and unworthy of my time. It matters not a whit what you think is stupid. It really doesn't and you are wasting your and my 'time.' By...

It didn't. Think of Strong's as the Reader's Digest of lexicons. It gives what a Hebrew/Greek word is most translated as and gives a snippet. Brown,Driver, Briggs is the go to: bird of prey perhaps kite or hawk Then go to the Ancient Hebrew Lexicon: Bird of prey, seeing all at once the...

Is Time ontological? It appears the jury is not in, leaving us posturing. However, to say God is stuck in durative succession is the same as denying time is a mere concept, that it is something that 'binds' God to forward momentum. Such is a discussion about 'what is real' and materialists...

Did you mean one that looked like a horse?

See here, to view, to behold, etc. It doesn't have to mean 'to learn something.' We cannot proof-text it to mean 'to find out what He didn't know.

That is, at best, a guess on anyone's part. You are one of very few Open Theists that think God had no clue where Adam was. Let me say that again: Most Open Theists, even, don't believe that. It is important.

Keeping this so we both can reference it for exactly what infinite means. Realize 'infinite space' is conjecture. God made it. Can He make an infinite universe? Possible, but the question is did He and we take liberty. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth...

It is either "Poor poor Clete..." or "You're drunk!" or (better) "What is your point? Is it simply to discredit, compensate for something? Did you pray before posting it? Run out of God-given patience thus exasperation due to lack of time?" I'll simply say work on it. You've done...

That isn't what a Mid Acts theologian believes. If you are Covenant Theology, all of scriptures applies to you, land, ox, temple, cattle... If you are any other kind of Christian, you don't apply everything and recognize quite a bit wasn't written 'directly' to you, but has application...

Literally 'without finite.' A line is infinite. No beginning, no end. Infinite means all that is 1) created and with finite property, from an infinite God. Mind you, I'm seeing your point and the intimation, but as I read and interact with quantum physics, that which seem not possible is...

Two points to consider: 1) Cart before Horse: Ephesians 2:8-10 says regeneration/indwelling, then works God prompts us to do. 2) James vs. Ephesians: Which is right? Both, but different audiences. James to Jews (even though in our 'gentile' Bibles). Ephesians (pair with Acts...