Recent content by Paul.

I am unable to agree with you because this would not be a pass on an English grammar test. For example, based on the following statement, "No one can enter the theatre unless they have a ticket" who can enter the theatre? The answer is … people who have a ticket. The sentence contains a main...

Not agreeing with your interpretation of the scriptures does not equal being unwilling to examining them carefully. Discussing scripture with those who interpret it differently, should cause you to spend more time it in them, like it does for me. This is a debate forum as per the title, so you...

Devine meticulous determinism by any other name is still exhaustive theistic determinism. You seem to be providing a distinction without a difference. This is still just a form of hard determinism. I have learnt that a more direct answer is needed. Do you believe God could have created a...

Only if you assume that the word is used in the same way every time it is mentioned in the Bible. Thayer’s Greek Lexicon indicates the passages you mention as using the word differently. You cannot reasonably argue the context of the passages in one book dictate the context in another. Just like...

You asserted that Romans 8 shows that people do not have the ability to refrain or not refrain from a given moral action. You do need to either show it or acknowledge that you will not be able to show it at this point in time.

Even here in the text is no reference to an inability to believe. In fact the opposite is found. NASB 1 Cor 1:21 For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. Here...

Please provide a definition for Absolute predestination. It is nice to see we have that in common too. If you think that the only options are determinism or open theism, you have not looked far enough to find the various robust viewpoints. So that does not answer the question. Do you believe...

In this verse it says that the god of this world has blinded the minds not the people were in a blinded condition from birth. If the god of this world has to actively do in order for the blindness to exist then it is not an inability from birth. Yet that is how it happens so many times...

Thayer's Greek Lexicon seems to indicate it is Strongs NT 5449 and is not from birth as follows: c. a mode of feeling and acting which by long habit has become nature: ἦμεν φύσει τέκνα ὀργῆς, by (our depraved) nature we were exposed to the wrath of God, Ephesians 2:3 (this meaning is evident...

I have to disagree with that statement. I believe you have misunderstood the context of the previous three chapters. Labeling rather than refuting is a sign of a weak argument. If you think that in the story of the Prodigal Son, the father synergistically restored the son, then I disagree with...

Sorry, my bad. I did not correctly state what I meant. The condition of understanding is based upon the choosing. In the first part of the verse there is a rejection of the things of God. This is a choice and it results in an inability to understand them. The "cannot understand" is the result of...

An alcoholic naturally desires to get drunk. This does not mean that they cannot recognize their need to stop being an alcoholic when they experience an intervention and accept help from a rehab center. In the same way, someone in bondage to sin, naturally desires to sin. This does not mean they...

All beliefs about what we think the Bible is affirming can be classified. It is the same argument people use when then they believe in the triune nature of God but object to being called a Trinitarian because they also argue they just believe the Bible so labels don't apply to them either. Do...

There is nothing about slavery to sin that shows a person cannot choose to repent of sin when presented with the good news of Jesus Christ. That would be an act of free will (the ability to refrain or not refrain from a given moral action.) You are assuming an addiction from birth. When a person...

There is nothing about slavery to sin in the definition that you provided that shows a person cannot choose to repent of sin when presented with the good news of Jesus Christ. That would be an act of free will (the ability to refrain or not refrain from a given moral action.) You also appear to...