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So is LOGIC ontologically real? Also to @Clete This is not a gotcha, I just need to know, in order to converse intelligibly with the two of you. How is logic different from free will or unicorns or justice and right and wrong or mathematics or the Hulk. Tell me!

NFL conference championship weekend has arrived. Buffalo and Kansas City, the latter trying to return to the NFL championship and win it for the third straight year, last franchise to do that was Dallas maybe? I don't remember. Anyway this should be a good game. And then the nee_Redskins at...

OR you can just use bombastic rhetoric in an attempt to create a smoke screen and hand waving in order to distract people away from the fact that your pet theology is full of holes, lacks structure, and is "built" on sand. Right? 'Could do that too, no?

https://lite.cnn.com/2025/01/25/politics/pentagon-hegseth-border-politics/index.html "Warrior Culture" lol. As if it should have gone without saying. It should have gone without saying! The military's about guns. Guns are their business. And their guns are so big that they have to become...

"Bunch of Mary's" is like exactly Biblical Scripture. Who is the famous "other Mary" in the Gospels, in your opinion? And don't forget Mary Magdalene. This was a case of mistaken identity, somebody thought, because evidently Jesus as a boy spent a lot of time with his cousins (so much so that...

https://lite.cnn.com/2025/01/24/world/putin-trump-ukraine-crisis-talks-intl/index.html “ Trump has long claimed that the war in Ukraine would not have happened under his watch, but Friday marked the first time Putin suggested the same thing—while also repeating Trump’s false claim that the 2020...

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$$ Mt 13:54 And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this [man] this wisdom, and [these] mighty works? $$ Mt 13:55 Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren...

Unicorns, Zeus and the Starship Enterprise only obtain in fiction. Unless we include people who believe in those things, then their activity reflective of their wrong belief would also count as evidence for these things, but that's just under the umbrella of obtainment in fiction afaic...

I'm never going to find a good authoritative definition of obtain. Here however is a link to an abstract of a philosophy paper published 20 years ago which features the word and makes it clear what it means in the literature. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20118694 Abstract My paper takes...

I keep forgetting the national so-called cathedral is Anglican. A so-called church to go along with their so-called bishop.

And you can individually choose to commit. And just about every single Christian up until about 1500 did. You either [cosign a] commitment your parents made for you, on your behalf, like with circumcision with the Old Covenant, or you converted and made the commitment directly yourself. And...

I'm OK with that, my question is Why? To what end are you wanting to dig deeper? Because the point is there is distinction between the Persons of the Undivided Trinity. So that is an established fact, we can say confidently, it's not an open question, we do not have to believe it is merely...

OK. But is it evidence that He did not raise Himself? It seems in order to be that, it'd have to be an argument from silence, no? The specific distinctions I'm aware of are that the Father generates the Son, the Son is begotten of the Father, and the Spirit proceeds from the Father and the...

Unicorns and Zeus do not obtain in the same way that justice and authority and mathematics obtain. The former only obtain in fiction.

Or Reformation. No longer did you have to commit to the Church, you could just be a "cowboy" Christian and do it your way, like Frank Sinatra (what a set of pipes). If you've made a commitment to the Church, then you're stuck, like you're stuck in a marriage. But in Christ you don't have to...

I think it's just talking about the Reformation. This is when all the millennial interpretation energy began in earnest, never really before the Reformation did anybody get too excited about whatever it meant, and then since the Reformation there's been a lot more interest in the topic. So I...

I mean it's rhetoric, right? Clearly. As clearly as you all Evangelicals read the words of consecration as metaphor, this is rhetoric. It's a genre of Scripture, like poetry and narrative and laws and proverbs. It's rhetoric. Hyperbole is a rhetorical device, for example. c. "If you do the...

We don't if we don't promise. That, I agree with. If we do promise, then we made a promise, and we should keep it. Like a marriage vow. Very much like a marriage vow.

We would say His soul IS His divinity. He is not partite in His essence. Surely He like us is one simple, indivisible essence. (Which is why we're not Nestorians, we can just simply say Mary is His mom simpliciter.) Yes. $$ Joh 2:19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple...