Recent content by PaulThomson

Hah...now we're getting to the heart of the matter! You're operating under the assumption that God cannot decree all things that come to pass without also being the author of sin and morally culpable for it. You see...you just admitted that your personal, finite and fallible reasoning ability...

Where is that rule of debate in the Bible, Mr. Sola Scriptura. Or where is that rule of debate anywhere stated. This is what comes up when I Google "What is the first rule of debate?" He who asserts must prove. In order to establish an assertion, the team must support it with enough evidence...

You got that backwards. 99% of Calvinist/reformed/Doctrines of grace arguments against non-calvinist theologies are strawmen.

The difference is that I can logically reason from what scripture actually says to justify the deduction that God is a community of three ever-existing persons ruling unanimously as One, and that one of those persons became a human being. But scripture doesn't say anything that leads logically...

God does not any more precisely say what He will produce in His decrees than I tld my students. You simply refuse to consider any rational alternative reading to texts that would render calvinism obsolete. You are a prisoner to your ideology.

Let me help. Total depravity means complete absolute depravity. Total inability to do X means complete inability to do X. Christians who hold to Total Depravity and Total Inability need more accurately and honestly to name their doctrine, and Calvinists need to change their acronym to a more...

Yes, God works all things together. WE agree on that. If I ask a classroom of students each to bring something from home to school and I will create a piece of artwork from all the items, after that artwork is completed, I had worked all things involved together for good. But I did not make...

Study bibles predispose you to see in scripture the theology that the study bible authors hold to. That can be a draw-back, and hinder you coming to the Bible with an open mind to see what a text is saying and not saying. I would advise using a Bible with no study notes.

Research shows that you remember something like 10 times more of what you read if you red it from a physical book with pages. The brain likes to locate information according to its position on physical pages. It will recall the place and distance throiugh the book and help to imprint it more...

The scriptures are designed to convey wisdom through pictures. The physical world is designed to describe spiritual realities through the design and functions of created things, and does this also in the Bible. The Holy Spirit is given to interpret the scriptures to us. and translate the...

You seem to be making my case for me. The wright brothers had a goal in mind, a flying machine that could carry at least one human being. That end was set before they began working on it. No, even as finite human beings they were able to navigate through all the unexpected problems and obstacles...

Which other words besides "come" do you believe have a special biblical sense that is unrelated to lexical meaning? The opposite of reject is accept. "Come" and "Follow me" mean two different things. They are two different actions. Come means to move to where I am. Follow me means move with...

Where does the Bible say God decreed anything "from eternity". Or the decreed all the means to the end from eternity? The Hebrew word translated by some as "meant" in the case of Joseph's betrayal has the primary meaning of "to weave". The brothers wove their actions for evil, but God wove...

He is telling the church to observe and remember the behaviour/practice (KJ English :conversation) of the teachers who taught them the Gospel of grace and how Christ through their practice of the Way grace produced much good fruit. He encourages them that the Jesus who by grace made good and...

PaulThomson said: What does Gal. 2:16-18, especially 17-18, mean, ThewindBlows? 16. Knowing that a man is not justified by works of the lw, but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faithfulness of Christ, and not by wrks...