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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.

Well, of course you have to make the argument! Just because something is absolute, doesn't mean that its self-evident. "Absolute" and "Self-evident" aren't synonyms. Even if they were, saying that something is self-evident does make it so either! Never treat any issue as though it's axiomatic...

I stopped focusing on eschatology many years ago so I could be wrong about this but I always had the impression that the antichrist wasn't just an evil guy like Barrack Obama but was someone who was "possessed" by Satan himself. It seems like it would be rather difficult to repent of that but I...

I speak from personal experience. I suppose my 401k may have been different. It was several years ago now but I have basically three options which were basically various mixes of stocks and bonds. You picked based on your risk tolerance. I certainly had no ability whatsoever to move the money...

The vast majority of people who have 401K's have little or no ability to move their funds into something other than the stock market. They might have some limited choices in regards to how aggressively they're exposed to risk but most people don't understand enough about it to even know what it...

Well, that's just the point I'm trying to make. Our interpretation of prophecy is one thing, it's actual fulfillment is quite another and, on top of that, prophecy is not prewritten history. Take Isaiah 53, for example. We can see in hind sight that it is quite an explicit prophecy about a...

I mean that to simply say that it's absolutely wrong doesn't make it so. It's easy to make the claim but can you make the argument? I'm not disagreeing with you but am prodding you to make the argument. What is it that makes something right or wrong?

Why?

Never saw it so I don't understand the reference.

"IF the antichrist is..." "Assuming one or two antichrist candidates..." How are such questions possible if the bible is as explicit about these future events as many claim?

I'm not trying to sound flippant, I promise... Could you be more specific? Which passages do you have in mind? (You don't need to list them all, just give me an example of the sort of detailed prediction of the future you have in mind.)

What future details are you referring too?

I heard Bob Enyart say something similar to this years and years ago and it is the only explanation of why God does some of the things we read about Him doing in the bible that I've ever heard. Every other explanation takes the form of redefining what it means to be just or, worse than that, it...

God cannot commit murder. That’s not even possible. All life belongs to Him. He created us, He sustains us, and He has every right to end our physical lives whenever He chooses and for whatever reason He sees fit. Ending a person’s bodily life isn’t the same as destroying them. We’re eternal...