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Recent content by luketbachelder

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    Does Christianity require the Devil to exist?

    Great philosophies you are toying with! However, dualism is a scary concept. Thinking that God and evil eternally exist is denying God's sovereignty. Two problems exist with dualism or, like you stated Zoroastrianism. The first is the metaphysical difficulty. The metaphysical difficulty is...
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    Can God Create An Object Too Heavy For Him To Lift?

    What demands to be outside logic? Who demands to be outside logic? The incarnation?
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    Can God Create An Object Too Heavy For Him To Lift?

    Trinitarian as well. I draw my observations from scripture as well, or at least I thought I did. You either believe matter and energy were created with the rest of creation, it intrinsically exists within his nature, which would make him not self independent, but rather dependent upon his...
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    Can God Create An Object Too Heavy For Him To Lift?

    I don't understand what you're trying to argue. Are you agreeing? I'm so confused, sorry.
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    Can God Create An Object Too Heavy For Him To Lift?

    That's kinda the point, everything sensical is within logic. Nothing demands to be outside of logic. What definition or proposition can exist without logic? Logic is the backbone of human rationale.
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    Can God Create An Object Too Heavy For Him To Lift?

    It seems that your conception of the universe and God are far different than mine. I'm just going to take a shot in the dark that you are reformed of Calvinistic in basic tendencies. Which means, you're quasi-panentheistic. Which means, (trying to define terms and trains of thought) God is in...
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    Can God Create An Object Too Heavy For Him To Lift?

    Yeah for sure, I'm sorry about that. Dualism is insinuating the earth consists of two forces. Generally it is either good and evil and mostly it is matter/energy and God. You stated that "matter cannot be created or destroyed, then you said that God is all that existed at one time. The...
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    Can God Create An Object Too Heavy For Him To Lift?

    Well, you kind of contradicted yourself when you stated the quoted post above and this one: That's a dualism. Very scary theological premises. God created matter, space and time, in Gen 1. The phrase, "heavens and earth" as seen in Gen 1:1, is a phrase referring to the whole universe. Point...
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    Can God Create An Object Too Heavy For Him To Lift?

    Or the question is flawed fundamentally. My ability to (and not to) create a square circle has no correlation with power. Now, the limitations that deal with philosophy aren't real limitations. They arguable make God more powerful. He created a world in which a circle's nature and a square's...
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    Can God Create An Object Too Heavy For Him To Lift?

    Every theologian holds to God's omnipotence. Where does this come from? D.A Carson, N.T. Wright, Willaim Lane Craig, Greggory Boyd, Paul Helseth, Michael Eaton, Paige Patterson, Russell Moore, and anyone else who is a top ranking theologian.
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    Theories of Truth I

    Over the history of humanity, we have struggled with the idea of truth. The main question for this blog is: What does truth represent? This is worth time, energy, and effort, so I will try to answer this question. First of all, we must come to the realization that we all admire truth. If you...
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    Can God Create An Object Too Heavy For Him To Lift?

    What theologian has "jettisoned" this premise? The God of open theism maybe, but they hold to the terminology in a differently defined manner.
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    Can God Create An Object Too Heavy For Him To Lift?

    What are you questioning?
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    Can God Create An Object Too Heavy For Him To Lift?

    i agree. It's not a matter of what can and can't be done. It's a matter of presenting a proposition within a syllogism that cannot be refuted. Which means, that proposition is attainable, and it must carry sense behind it. Which, antilogical things cannot fit into any argument or have any merit.
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    Can God Create An Object Too Heavy For Him To Lift?

    Thanks man. I appreciate that. There are people doing it right, though. You should check out my blogs.