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Most seminaries equate one's ability to cite the biblical source of an inference with the inference's accuracy. I find that pathetic, shallow and circular.

God is not fair nor is He unjust. God's justice toward His creation is not founded upon His fairness with His creatures; it's founded upon His creation of them.

I see. I have them all fooled, and they all have me fooled, and you got it right. Go with that.

The source of an inference is no measure of its accuracy; however, the source of an implication is. There are ideas implied in the bible that are not implied anywhere else. Those ideas cannot be accurately inferred apart from the Holy Spirit's enlightening one to them. This makes the bible the...

I was correct; you cannot believe that someone would rather be self-employed. Fair enough. If you were in a room with those men and their families and they testified to you about their preference for their current state of affairs or the voluntary nature of their choice to arrange their...

You just cannot believe that those men did that voluntarily. I am extremely proud to report that they are doing well and would never voluntarily go back to being anyone's employee. I am not ashamed of the way I approached my retirement. I didn't shutter the doors and sell off the assets. I...

The problem comes from comparing one's best intentions to others worst intentions. Imposing your best intentions on others is not an alternative to chaos; it's a usurpation of other people's best intentions.

Do you consider taxes a moral issue and equal outcomes a noble goal?

That established, do you consider those who would impose their best intentions on others a threat to your liberty?

Your post seems to imply two things: that you do not want conservatives best intentions imposed on you, and that you would have your best intentions imposed on others. The question remains, are you so arrogant that you would have your best intentions usurp other people's best intentions?

It is not so much that ideas are proved to us as it is that all of the other ideas that we have considered have been disproved. What remains is what we are LEFT TO BELIEVE. Then, that's tested, and so on, and so on. We approach certainty through a process wherein doubt is removed by testing. Our...

Tradition, long term consensus, proves nothing. Proof is not the product of consensus.

Our nation is now run by a political party that is so arrogant that it seeks to have its best intentions imposed on others. They do not see what they do as an imposition; they see it as an alternative to chaos. They consider personal responsibility and authority over self as a chaos to be...

Are you so arrogant that you would have your best intentions imposed on others? Do you believe that the imposition of your best intentions are an alternative to chaos or the usurpation of other people's best intentions? I am not so arrogant as to want even my very best intentions imposed on...

The source of an inference is no measure of its accuracy; however, the source of an implication is. That is why I do not cite bible verses in support of an inference yet regard the bible as true. There are ideas about God that are not implied in the balance of God's creation. Those ideas are...

Good is what God is; evil is what God is not. Good and evil are not created; they're revealed. The revelation of evil reveals what God is not. Sin reveal evil, and the Law reveals sin. Salvation from the penalty of sin reveals grace, and it is grace that reveals the true extent of the good that...

We are in one accord when you write "words that God sovereignly intended to be written". The Author of creation so authored those creatures to write those words, even as God has so authored me to write these.

Epistemic certainty has been established and warning against attempts to change that culminate the book of Revelation.

No, I wrote what I meant. You seem to have lost sight of our context. I will refer to to my OP, wherein I go on at length about the importance of knowing both what God is and is not. You are preaching to the choir.

One can discern that God is good without the bible, and many do. The bible proves nothing. Truth is implied; proof is inferred. The source of an inference is not a good measure of its accuracy; however the source of an implication is. There are, however, ideas about God that are only implied...