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CHRIST IS LORD
@_ChristIsLord
I follow Jesus of Nazareth.✝️ Student of Philosophy and Theology. 👑Jesus Christ is the KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS👑
United States of America انضم Ocak 2014
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@Metaphysicmike Is God the only savior of the world? Or is there another savior?
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When people won’t fellowship with you just because you don’t believe Jesus is God ontologically, it hurts. Makes you want to abandon Christ because of his so-called followers. But at the end of the day, I don’t follow Christ because I want to be accepted by others. I follow him because he’s truly the Messiah, and the Son of God, and the gospel changed my life, put me on a righteous path, showed me what life is about, and what happens hereafter.
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@Orville54310141 @5Solas2 I don’t have any unstated assumptions. I’ve only asked you a question. Why would it be difficult to say you agree or disagree with either of those two statements?
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I agree God is all-powerful and all-knowing.
But I reject the unstated assumptions behind the question. Scripture does not reveal a God who uses middle knowledge to survey possible worlds full of neutral “genuine free creatures” with libertarian freedom. It reveals Him sovereignly creating this world, where fallen humans are by nature slaves to sin (Eph 2:1-3; Rom 3:10-12; John 8:34), not neutral free agents.
He works all things according to the counsel of His will (Eph 1:11), has mercy on whom He wills and hardens whom He wills (Rom 9:18), all for the display of His glory (Rom 9:22-23).
So no, I don’t play the “could God create X” game when the Bible clearly shows what He did create and why.
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@_ChristIsLord Thanks for the recommendation, he earned a follow from that thread alone. Unsurprisingly I had Bishop muted.
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@Orville54310141 @5Solas2 I asked if you disagreed with either of those statements. It seems you do not disagree with either of those statements. Is that correct?
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The question isn't what God could do with middle knowledge or possible worlds. It's what God actually did and has revealed.
He sovereignly created a world in which so-called “free” creatures are, by nature, slaves to sin (Eph 2:1-3; John 8:34). Scripture doesn't portray a God scanning feasible worlds to maximize the number saved through unbiblical libertarian free will. Instead, it shows a God “working all things according to the counsel of His will” (Eph 1:11), who has mercy on whom He wills and hardens whom He wills (Rom 9:18), for the display of His glory in both vessels of mercy and vessels of wrath (Rom 9:22-23).
Molinism imports a philosophical framework to protect a creaturely “freedom” that the Bible never presents.
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@SpeedWatkins It has dwarfed it to such a degree that the debt has risen to 39 Trillion dollars. The interest payments on this debt is also greater than the amount of money we spend on the entire military every year.
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@SpeedWatkins And your ignorance of the federal budget is alive and well. If you understood the federal budget of the United States, you’d know that spending on social welfare programs absolutely dwarfs spending on the military.
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@Orville54310141 @5Solas2 If God is all powerful, then He can create a world with genuine free creatures. If God is all knowing, then he knows all possible worlds he could create with genuine free creatures. Do you disagree?
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@5Solas2 The battle-cry of the Provisionist: Foreknowledge is not causation!
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@5Solas2 They could have repented and believed Jesus. And if they did, then God’s foreknowledge would be perfectly aligned with that. There’s no need for you to ask loaded questions.
They (not God) were not willing.
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I’ve been researching the ontological argument for about three years now. During that time, I’ve worked through a large number of books, papers, and debates, trying to understand the argument from its origins all the way through its modern formulations.
Along the way, I’ve been systematically compiling notes tracking the history of the argument, its different versions, the major objections, and the deeper metaphysical and epistemological issues that come with it. It’s one of the most controversial arguments for God’s existence, and to really engage it, you end up having to think through questions about necessity, existence, logic, and the structure of reality itself.
The result of that work is a set of notes totaling:
826,000+ words
~2,300+ pages (paperback estimate)
At this point, the challenge is no longer gathering material, it’s taking that body of research and organizing it into a clear, structured book that does justice to the subject.
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@AshlinJacobGeo1 @awaitingchrist That wouldn’t be possible. See Revelation 20:7-8 and you’ll find that.
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@_ChristIsLord @awaitingchrist Shouldn't this take place before 3.5 years?
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We wondered how this might play into Gog/Magog. 🤷
unusual_whales@unusual_whales
Iran could emerge from the war stronger and more dangerous, per FT
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@_ChristIsLord @darwintojesus @kaizen000000000 If god knows with certainty that I will do A tomorrow, what possibility is there for me to do otherwise with a fixed past?
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@Ausbloke93 @darwintojesus @kaizen000000000 Let me make sure I understand your argument. Are suggesting that 1. If God foreknows that I will do X, then I will do X.
2. God foreknows I will do X.
Therefore, necessarily, I will do X.
Is that right?
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@Ausbloke93 @darwintojesus @kaizen000000000 God is a maximally great being, so he necessarily has middle knowledge. It really isn’t too complex. No need to “soften” omniscience.
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@_ChristIsLord @darwintojesus @kaizen000000000 No plantinga ran into this very wall and then had to soften God’s knowledge entirely 💀 soft facts doesn’t help in a fixed past with apparent certain future 👍
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@Ausbloke93 @darwintojesus @kaizen000000000 Yes, it is possible, and if you were to do not-A, then God would have foreknown that. This question has been addressed with good answers by philosophers like Alvin Plantinga.
youtu.be/B6IDtae6nJc?si…
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@darwintojesus @kaizen000000000 There’s no need to mention cause.
If god knows with certainty that tomorrow I will do A, do I have a possibility to do not-A?
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@Harri18971 @DrScotMSullivan This is a basic syllogism, modus tollens to be exact. I understand you want to see the justification for the premises, but the argument itself is valid.
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@_ChristIsLord @DrScotMSullivan Was that a question?
Bc he just stated that one Thing does not exist because of the other without any proof at all. Its random bullshit.
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If the universe is ran by a cosmic torturer, the Greatest Conceivable Being does not exist.
But the Greatest Conceivable Being does exist.
Therefore, the universe is not ran by a cosmic torturer.
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@davidscottjaffe @CrimsonDesert_ “Crimson desert is racist because I want it to be racist!”
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Loving Crimson Desert.
But...come on, @CrimsonDesert_ ...this is some antisemetic shit or at least it sure feels as such. Which hey, that's your right. I support your right but I don't gotta like it.
The nose, the job, the mission name, and Goldleaf may as well be Goldberg.
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@ProvisionistP @TiffaniMarie483 Excellent idea. Excellent book. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Greg a few times. Great ministry.
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@TiffaniMarie483 Read Tactics by Greg Koukl and start asking her questions.
“What specifically bothers you about death?”
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My boomer, liberal, atheist, MIL lives with us now. I actually love her very much.
She’s been having anxiety about death lately and I so badly want to share the gospel with her, but she’s so anti-Christian that it just makes her mad.
What’s my move here?
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