Zoomie, why do you take those verses so literally? The Jews were strongly monotheistic, and didn't understand those passage as you are now. What...
LOL, right as I got finish typing "an infinite number of moments" I thought to myself "That's a really bad analogy!" That's why added "an infinite...
The point being that if time had no beginning then it would be impossible for you to arrive at the present moment since there would be an infinite...
Elohim is not the Hebrew word for "Us" so this point is actually irrelevant. I agree with what campbell and JesusDiedForU have already said, God...
and Both of these seem to be dealing with an infinite number of conceptual--mind imposed--points through which actual travel in possible. However,...
From a philosophical perspective, I think this assumes a functionalist conception of the mind. From a theological standpoint, the robot would...
Ah, I understand. That's a bit different than what I intially thought. Hm. So perhaps something like ($x) (Yx <-> Zx) which would commits us to...
It just seems to me that knowing something a prior, here, is synonomous with knowing an analytic proposition. I would agree that an analytic...
osutuffy, the specific blasphemy mentioned in that passage is "blasphemy against the Spirit." You can think of it as it's own term, and, as I'm...
It seems like this definition of a prior depends on analyticity.
osutuffy, the Greek word in Matthew 12:31 is blasphemia but the specific sin is not just blasphemia. The clause says, h de tou pneumatov blasphmia...
That was meant partially as a joke btw
Thanks! You do realize that you're complementing a Christian theist right? [img] I suppose though this is hardly fun! I think the history of...
Common Sense, Interesting. As a theist, I'll offer my input (and you'll have to forgive my impreciseness =) ) My thinking here is that this is a...
She will be in my prayers
Right I read your response before I linked to my old post. I don't think you fully understood what I was saying That's why I referred to it as...
On the paraphase thing, I explain that here As for post #20 point NO. 3, I'll take a look at that: To argue this, Cat, is misleading. I...
Cat, Regarding the "I AM" passages, we discussed this at great length already. As I remember it, I pointed out the origin and meaning of "I AM"...
Hm, I’ve noticed this interesting phenomenon on these forums. Why are so many Christians distrusting of churches? I'll admit, there are some...
Yeah I think we all know Christians that require an extra amount of patience, and those who have been Christians for quite awhile, yet they are...
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