Recent content by Clete

I had Chat GPT help me write that opening post in such a way that, if you've read that post, you've got a really good understanding of the arguments Lewis makes in the book. I'm writing a similar summary of Lewis' "Miracles" now.

Well, of course you have to make the argument! Just because something is absolute, doesn't mean that its self-evident. "Absolute" and "Self-evident" aren't synonyms. Even if they were, saying that something is self-evident does make it so either! Never treat any issue as though it's axiomatic...

I stopped focusing on eschatology many years ago so I could be wrong about this but I always had the impression that the antichrist wasn't just an evil guy like Barrack Obama but was someone who was "possessed" by Satan himself. It seems like it would be rather difficult to repent of that but I...

I speak from personal experience. I suppose my 401k may have been different. It was several years ago now but I have basically three options which were basically various mixes of stocks and bonds. You picked based on your risk tolerance. I certainly had no ability whatsoever to move the money...

The vast majority of people who have 401K's have little or no ability to move their funds into something other than the stock market. They might have some limited choices in regards to how aggressively they're exposed to risk but most people don't understand enough about it to even know what it...

Well, that's just the point I'm trying to make. Our interpretation of prophecy is one thing, it's actual fulfillment is quite another and, on top of that, prophecy is not prewritten history. Take Isaiah 53, for example. We can see in hind sight that it is quite an explicit prophecy about a...

I mean that to simply say that it's absolutely wrong doesn't make it so. It's easy to make the claim but can you make the argument? I'm not disagreeing with you but am prodding you to make the argument. What is it that makes something right or wrong?

Why?

Never saw it so I don't understand the reference.

"IF the antichrist is..." "Assuming one or two antichrist candidates..." How are such questions possible if the bible is as explicit about these future events as many claim?

I'm not trying to sound flippant, I promise... Could you be more specific? Which passages do you have in mind? (You don't need to list them all, just give me an example of the sort of detailed prediction of the future you have in mind.)

What future details are you referring too?

I heard Bob Enyart say something similar to this years and years ago and it is the only explanation of why God does some of the things we read about Him doing in the bible that I've ever heard. Every other explanation takes the form of redefining what it means to be just or, worse than that, it...

God cannot commit murder. That’s not even possible. All life belongs to Him. He created us, He sustains us, and He has every right to end our physical lives whenever He chooses and for whatever reason He sees fit. Ending a person’s bodily life isn’t the same as destroying them. We’re eternal...

Yes, well, I meant survive rationally intact. If someone doesn't care about being rational, as I just saw John MacArthur explaining (in so many words) in a video this morning) then, of course, they've insulated themselves from any possible falsifying evidence or argument. The first two minutes...