Recent content by JAL

Agreed, but aren't you just pushing the question one step further back? You're just moving me to rephrase the question like this: I don't currently see the Holy Spirit face to face. Nor has He dialed my cell phone. So what makes it personal?

I don't currently see Jesus face to face. Nor has He called me on my cell phone. So what makes it personal?

Consider the NIV translation of Acts 17:11: “11Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.” In my view, that translation is severely...

Smoke.

(Sigh). Again, in that case your job is easy. Just provide one specific example of where departure from my rule is appropriate. Oh that's right. You don't have an example because none exists, not even hypothetically, by logical necessity. Blowing smoke. As a result, I won't even dignify the...

As expected. You cannot formulate even one specific scenario where departure from my rule of conscience is clearly appropriate. For an obvious reason. My rule states we should never try to do evil. There cannot be any exceptions to this rule.

Then your job should be easy. Just cite one specific example where departure from my rule is clearly the correct course of action. Oh that's right. You don't have an example. You're just blowing smoke. My rule of conscience is logically irrefutable. To avoid contradiction, then, it is YOUR...

So yes I agree that we should seek a well-formed conscience, as you said - but bearing in mind that my rule of conscience is always obligatory.

I don't want to totally discount what you said. Let me clarify my positoin. The ideal scenario would be this: If I feel 100% certain that action-A is evil, and 100% certain B is good, I should opt for B". Since most of us aren't prophets, however, we are not 100% certain of anything. In that...

I am not really sure what you are addressing in these posts. My rule of conscience doesn't actually mention the word conscience, hence anything negative said about conscience isn't a corrective to my position. My rule of conscience is: "If I feel certain that action-A is evil, and B is good, I...

You side-stepped my direct question. As expected. This always confirms my point.

Totally incorrect. First of all the third Person's title is best translated "The Holy Wind/Breath" (not Holy Spirit) as the physical spoken Word/Breath of God's mouth (Isaiah 55:11 Ps 33:6). It's virtually impossible to find a valid metaphor for this physical divine Word because, in the task of...

If the Scripture used the word "Trinity" I would believe in the Trinity. Oh that's right. I believe in the Trinity even though Scripture never states that doctrine explicitly.

@helmut, And in that same post (219), you made a similar statement that reads the same to me: "If God created space, he is not inside the space, and if he created our time, he is not inside our time. " To a native English reader, both statements SEEM to be clearly stating that God is somehow...

No? You did NOT make that statement? Could somebody please take a look at post 219 and tell me who is lying here? Because this is what I seem to read: "I refine my analogy: We know a certain object is not in the room we are in (we know the Creator of our universe is not in pour universe). " My...