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No one said you were a Calvinist. What I said is that everything you're arguing against is Calvinism/Arminianism, or what we collectively call the "settled view." Clete, RD, and I are all Open Theists. We believe the future is open, and that God is free, and that He created free moral agents...

It appears Clete beat me to the punch, and he says a lot of things that I say in my post. Feel free to skip them in your reply to me and address them them in your reply to him. The original creation God made was indeed perfect. God's will was not imperfect. It was and is perfect. So God...

False. No, Plato got that wrong. If I swing a baseball bat at a perfect glass vase, do you not expect it to shatter? Because you say so?

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No, a computer program doesn't know it exists. It can never "contemplate it's own existence," because to do so requires a thinking mind. Something which a computer program will never have. Don't confuse figurative language with reality. When a program is processing information, say, on a...

Yes. Yes. No. You're still missing it. The bread becomes a PART of Christ, AFTER INGESTING IT, because it is becoming a part of US, who are MEMBERS OF THE BODY OF CHRIST. Until that point, it's just bread. It's just wine. We are not the Body of Christ because we eat bread and drink wine...

Maybe you should stop rushing, then. The latter is the case in Genesis 3:20. Moses is relating something that happened long before his day, namely that, "Adam called his wife's name Eve," why? "Because she was" [past tense] (using past tense is completely normal when referring to someone who...

No. You missed it. You heard what you wanted to hear, not what was being said. Listen to it again. What was said is that the bread itself is not Christ, as the RCC claims. The point of that part of the video is that the bread is not Christ. It's only once it has been partaken of that it...

Not sure how you got confused on the matter, but we're talking about Genesis 3:20. Genesis 3:20 is NOT a quotation of anything Adam said, verbatim. It is simply narrative, describing what happened, and why.

I was going to respond to this, but RD hit the nail on the head here: The code is what is rigid. The process of which code it uses is not, by design. Meaning, it's not outputting something because it's "intelligent." It's outputting something because it was programmed to do so, in the...

@Idolater See 2:14:35 in the following video.

The other half of this, Derf, is that He uses the term for the loftiest of heights... for His new dwelling place on the planet He is in the midst of creating.

Okay, the first two seem to be your attempt at explaining WHY it's confusing, and thank you for directing me to those. But the rest are you just saying "because it's confusing" and not explaining why. Just an observation. It's a matter of figurative language. Using one literal thing as a...

You clearly didn't bother to read the article I linked to. Go do so, please. It sufficiently answers the Dilemma.

Not according to a plain reading of the first three verses. Please explain again. Not when "the heavens" and "Heaven", and, "the earth" and "Earth" are both distinguished from the other. ESPECIALLY and in particular, when "the heavens" is used in two distinct ways throughout the chapter...

Euthyphro's Dilemma has already been solved, no need for "AI." https://kgov.com/euthyphro

On the contrary, in the Old Testament, the 3 other times "sons of God" is used, they all refer to angels (cf Job 1:6; 2:1; 38:7). Given that, I'd say it's a safe assumption that the phrase in Genesis 6 also refers to angels as well, both times. By putting quotations around fathers I was simply...

First off, I don't mind minor edits to correct spelling or grammar, but please do not add your comments to the quoted text. One, I'm not going to read it, and two, it indicates you're not interested in responding to what I actually said, but rather what you want me to have said. It's extremely...