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You too kmo!! Happy Easter!! Are you planning on doing anything special?

Do you have days off work during Easter in the US? Basically from and including maundy thursday up to and including the monday after Easter day is like a sunday here, with the exception of saturday.

I don't have any big plans, I need to get some work done. My father is visiting tomorrow. Went to the maundy thursdays service with a friend last night, very high church liturgically speaking. I really liked the end of the service, they did 3 readings: One prophetic lamentation from Isaiah (can't remember where it was from ), then Jesus in Gethsemane (Matt 26:36) and finally the capture of Jesus (Matt 26:47) with a reponse from the choir between each reading. For each reading, more lights were turned off until it was dark and then it was over.

I have to say that I find average energy equals zero argument to be absolutely absurd. To illustrate it graphically and obviously analogically, I would say that there is difference between f(x)=0 and f(x)=sin x, both average at 0. Also, it is absurd to claim that it implies that nothing really exists, the very act of putting forth that argument implies its negation. If anything, it only underlines the absolute contingency of finite existence.

Have a blessed Easter

Any plans?

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Finishing "On Evil" by Terry Eagleton these days, read it whenever I have the time. Quite enjoy that book. His combination of theology and psychoanalytic tools to describe evil via examples from famous literary works is quite interesting, some genuine insights into what evil is. I also love his dry black humor, it is so sudden and out of place that I cant help but laugh. I love watching him lecture for that reason, he never quite manages to get the old dry academics to go along with his jokes :chuckle:

That sounds like an interesting ceremony :chuckle: Never heard of that before.

Not sure if I would be willing to say there was such a change in the Godhead, I'm still on the fence when it comes to attributing change to God. It can be appealing, but some of it does strike me as a bit anthropomorphic at times. But if there was change in God and God existed in time, then I would say that there would have to be some kind of difference involved.

I know, right? I slept through the whole scene of them on the boat going to the island...:chuckle:

Thanks, hope you're doing all right yourself.

I don't think so... although I've mentioned before that I fell asleep during Skyfall... in the theater.

And thanks. Another 8 weeks that looks like 8 months... :chuckle:

Will get back to you soon. Things are quite busy these days, spending 9-10 hours at the faculty every day

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Mine too, although I'm not a fan of Bond movies.

I'm sorry to hear about the ups and downs, and hope you're doing okay.

Today is the last weekday of spring break.

Hey, dude!! How's it going?

I like your avatar. Very suave.

I'm doing all right, I hope things are well with you.

You're talking to yourself.

Have you ever ridden on this ferry? :D
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How are you doing?

I finished Bauckham's book on Christology. He definitely gave some evidence that I hadn't thought about before. I'm still unsure of what monotheism means in light of Christ's divinity though. I'm going back to re-read his chapter on it. He focuses on a Christology of divine identity but if you start talking about monotheism then I think you have to bring in some talk about divine nature as well.

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Nothing special, just that I have to be there to get my work done :chuckle: Luckily there are several of us that are working on the same thing, so I don't really mind spending the days there. Also looking more into the military thing. I would have to go to officer training, might have to get in better shape for that

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So something comes between you and their Calvin? Okay, but that doesn't really oppose my point. Out of curiosity, how do you answer a Calvinist inquiring as to your choice for the good and the fellow next to you thumbing nose at it?

If salvation is not a thing of works, that none should boast, then how do we divorce merit from it as we must? By what particular do I find myself in faith and my brother not? Coming to the answer while staying on the other side of merit is...problematic.

I'm good. Quite busy, so haven't had much time for TOL lately. Spending most of my time at the faculty at the moment.

How are you?

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I think once a Christian accepts God it becomes fundamentally irrational to question/judge His nature and second nature to question/judge our own understanding.

I sit corrected, though I suppose you're not so much judging God as someone's impression of God.

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I'm not sure that met the point. Adam sinned...so he had free will, but we don't or we do but not the sort that can change our eternal fate? Which leads right back to my inquiry. You, I chided (same post) on a point you could turn on my question.