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Sure. And a spiritually dead person can ask to bury an old spiritually dead person who isn’t yet physically dead. If you allow for “dead” to mean still alive in one case, you have to allow for it in the other. Jesus understood their question quite well, and restated it for them: Mark 12:26...

My bovine buddies don’t have spots. But they make great steaks and burgers.

Which gives it the power of euphemism. Once you euphemize death, it is no longer death, it's still life. That's my point. Satan said the same thing: "You will not surely die." (I.e., "God's just using a euphemism.") "It DEFINITELY wasn't a prophecy" vs [Act 2:30-31 KJV] Therefore being a...

“Better than that” wasn’t working, so I thought I’d try snark. If you won’t listen to snark either, I’m not sure where else to turn. You’ll have to explain what you mean by thwarting gravity. Gravity is not sentient. It doesn’t have a “will” or intention to be thwarted. Once again you are...

You can probably see why I was confused.

Apparently you understand less about energy than you do about entropy, if that's possible. Maybe they don't understand either biology or evolutionary theory. The general trend of evolution is toward more complex creatures from less complex creatures. More complex creatures require more...

I say this because your posts about entropy are proving the opposite point you're trying to make, but you don't realize it. Raw energy, like that from the sun, increases entropy. Entropy doesn't do work, as you suggested. Both your activity in edging you lawn and activity by other creatures...

Tweedle Derf doesn’t think you understand entropy very well.

You are using Christian terms, but acting like you’re not a believer.

Why untimely? And what did he pass to? Seems like your vocabulary betrays your background, or at least your community’s.

You mean the aorist Redskins. They didn’t win in the past that one time. 😊

Not at all. I’ve addressed many of his comments, and I’ve acknowledged that this kind of back and forth is productive, as long as both sides are responding to the other.

It might with respect to your comment on irony--regarding whether I can see past my own view (which I've done) vs whether you can (which you don't seem to be ready to do). This is the problem--that we need to see the words of the bible as relating to the bible before we see them as relating to...

Actually, that's how I got where I am now. I grew up with the view you hold to.

I know it will be hard for you to see past your own viewpoint, but you should try for a moment. Maybe it will help to separate the two concepts (no, that doesn't mean the concepts will be dead). Let's deal with the "soul in hell" concept. Peter's treatment of it should stand on its own...

A quick, and only partial reply, due to time. Peter's description addressed either two things, in your view, or one, in mine. If two, then you have to deal with the body and soul being in separate places. Here it is again for reference: [Act 2:27, 29 KJV] Because thou wilt not leave my soul in...

What you have, over my position, is tradition. Is that what you want to rely on? I'm surprised, because that's not what I see in your posts on other subjects.

Well, despite your fish breath comments, you have a worse problem than I do. Man was created with a physical body. Jesus was born as a baby with a physical body. Jesus' physical body grew to be a man's body. Jesus was resurrected with a physical body (one the disciples could touch). Jesus...

How many forms does man have? What constitutes a "form"? I agree that God designed man to live forever, but then Adam sinned, and that plan had to change, at least for a time. Adam died in that day, but he was promised a savior who would crush the head of the one that brought death. So the plan...

There are multiple uses of "dead" here, as a dead person can't bury anyone. So if the bury-ers are dead, but not dead, then the bury-ee can be just as dead but not dead. My evidence is better than yours. Not an assumption--it's in the text. He was talking to those who didn't believe in the...