Recent content by Uber Genius

Not at all sure about this proposition. What does equal characteristics mean? I don't assume inequity has much at all to do with happiness. We find that 1.6 billion people have moved into the middle class since the 1990s due to the elimination of socialism in China (1975) and in India (1994?)...

So you are saying what? Jesus is wrong to have stated this passage because it puts responsibility on man? "But YOU WERE NOT WILLING," seems to have a subject that is human and a verb form "to will." God (Jesus speaking) has longed ...so God desires but man was not willing. Again, this passage...

Why not both. Like Other Catholics and Protestants of the late 15th through mid-16th centuries the process for murdering your interlocutors was: 1- Get someone with some authority to declare your opponents view as heresy 2 - Declare your opponent a heretic 3 - Catch them 4 - Make them recant...

Here you have, I assume unintentionally, given us a trick question. Your problem is due to limits of human knowledge. Descartes gives us some reasons we should doubt "absolute assurance," about things as important as an external world, other minds (other people exist), and the reality of the...

Since I've made no claims about causes but rather the freedom to use rationality in our decision making, this seems like a strawman. Calvin in his Institutes describes the world being a result of God's providence rather than human action, and so there are no free acts, period. Luther's focus...

I think we may have to get caught up in philosophy (also known as rationality). Premise 1 - The Bible contains God's knowledge that he considers helpful/necessary for humans to live the way God designed them to live. Premise 2 - The Bible is filled with subjunctive conditional statements (if...

Probably need a whole thread on this topic. So if your proposal above is true then the following statements would also seem to be true: Moral good or evil don't exist Love for parents, children, spouse or partner don't exist Rationality about the world and what is real doesn't exist Seems...

This was not my argument. I'm not justifying free will using knowledge of evil I'm assuming free will as axiomatic to love and agency in general. We don't have loving robots. Or computers that gain agency. All the things we consider to be the highest good are a function of an underlying...

So perhaps we need to examine this idea a little more closely. No belief I assume is no official commitment to God or attendance in some organized religion. But one doesn't act with conviction on atheism. So if one literal has no belief in God, the resulting worldview must delete objective moral...

Here may be a good question for another post. It is controversial. I used to hold the Charasmatic view until now believe that all believers are Baptised by the HS and are partakers of his nature (origin of our new nature), and that what we witnessed in Acts 13-19, especially 19), was an...

I call the latter words of knowledge if the pictures have to do with the current, or past. These same pictures attend future prophetic gifting. Finally, God uses pictures sometimes when I'm praying for deliverance..

My wife and I were in LA a couple months back. Ran into an individual that thought that the moon landing was fabricated not far from the West Hollywood apartment we were visiting. I asked about the men who claimed to be there and land, the samples, the other evidence? All faked he said and then...

"The church, as the house of God, ... enjoys the goods which adorn God’s house: divine conversation, sacred instruction, and the [charismata] of the Holy Spirit. Among them are the word of wisdom, the word of knowledge, faith, healings, and tongues.” Eusebius, “Commentary on Psalms, 64:5-9...

Just for some perspective, despite my use of the gifts mentioned above, 99% of my ministry to poor, prisons, international students, college students, teaching basic doctrine classes, teaching apologetics classes, holding 6-week intensive seminar practice for students transitioning from high...

Another aspect that most Christians and scholars have gotten wrong is the aspect of classifying these gifts at a very high level as "knowledge gifts," and then reducing them to benreplaced by "knowledge contained in the NT (closing of the canon). Premise 1: tongues with interpretation , words...