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Recent content by pico

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    Ask a Philosophical Calvinist Christian

    I'm not sure how far I want to get into the topic of van Til's writings. I shall venture, though, to put forth this, which I find baffling. Van Til, Introduction to Systematic Theology, wrote: “In the first place, it is possible in this way to see that the knowledge of God and the...
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    Ask a Philosophical Calvinist Christian

    When I was a student, some of us went to visit him. I don't remember much of what he said, but I remember that he had a cat. An appropriate animal friend for a self-described "bookworm." His wife brought us tea and pastries. Some of the guys were asking him about various questions about...
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    If fifteen living people claimed to witness miracles by Allah, would you believe?

    Yes, I saw that. And as I remember, people started raising problems about which other god! that's why I thought maybe comparing doctrines to doctrines would avoid some of the problems that seemed to come up in comparing god to god. But not a big deal. Cheers, p
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    Ask a Philosophical Calvinist Christian

    TOL, do you have views on the Transcendental Argument for God - how good an argument it is, whether it's properly a philosophical or a theological argument, and so on? I once had tea at Van Til's house. We were all quite in awe of him.
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    What Would Evidence for God's Existence Be Like?

    Interesting thought experiment, and interesting question. I don't think the analogy is completely apt, because Shakespeare as author by definition cannot be a constituent of the world of the fiction. God, on the other hand, as He is represented in scripture, acts in human history. So God is a...
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    If fifteen living people claimed to witness miracles by Allah, would you believe?

    Would it help to rephrase the question of the OP? Perhaps instead of asking, which god would you believe in, it could be rephrased, "Would you believe in the historical doctrines of Islam?" That way we avoid the problem of the referent of the word "god" in various languages.
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    Greek language - couple of simple questions

    Hello again, Kylissa, I'm not ethnically Greek but I've learned a good deal and have a lot of Greek friends. As Annoula said, the pronunciation of Koine as practiced in Greece is the same as the pronunciation of "modern" Greek. You'll find that in universities and seminaries outside of Greece...
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    Being Greek Orthodox in a sometimes aggressive American/Protestant culture

    When I was in college, one of the stalwarts in InterVarsity, an evangelical Protestant group, was Greek Orthodox. He would make contributions from St. John Chrysostom and other Fathers. One of the members of the group had converted from Orthodoxy to Protestantism. She said she was trying to...
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    Hellfire in Eastern Orthodoxy

    Georgios Scholarios, Byzantine philosopher churchman and first Patriarch of Constantinople (= Gennadius II) after the Turkish conquest, criticized Origen for saying that "hellfire would not last forever" (quoted by Henry Chadwick, Early Christian Thought and the Classical Tradition, 2nd ed. 95)...
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    Greek language - couple of simple questions

    Γεια σου, Κύλισσα! Hello, Kylissa! The pronunciation of ancient Greek changed between classical Athenian times of the 5th and 4th centuries BCE and the end of antiquity, and today, Greek is pronounced differently from the...
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    Being Greek Orthodox in a sometimes aggressive American/Protestant culture

    Επιτρέπεται να απαντήσω εδὠ αν άθεος είμαι?
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    True knowledge?

    My apologies for not having read the Stickies. P
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    True knowledge?

    Hello all, as a non-scientist, Greek and Latin text guy, I follow the above with great interest. Everett, let me know if this would derail the thread. Your question about true vs. false knowledge pertains to scientific theories, correct? If so, do you want to characterize scientific...
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    Advice about radiation for cat

    Saw vet two weeks ago, so far so good. Thanks, all.
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    Advice about radiation for cat

    Thank you for your reply, Arithea. Maya is ten. I have decided (at least for now) to go with "monitoring." She will see her regular vet on Jan. 27, and he'll try to find whether there are any signs of further growths. We'll do once a month for a while. The radiation would have required Maya...
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