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  1. squirrelyguy

     Thoughts on Trump, Hillary, and corruption.

    For the Trump enthusiasts who are certain that Hillary is corrupt but Trump isn't, let me ask you this: why didn't Trump's DOJ ever prosecute Hillary? Did they lack a case? Did they lack the political will? If they lacked political will, did Trump also lack the political will to demand that...
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     Thinking through the Trump defense re: classified documents

    Let's suppose that you or I are government employees with a security clearance, and we are charged with sharing classified information on the internet. After we are convicted, it is discovered that the classified information we shared happened to be Trump's bathroom at the time we shared it on...
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     Ban adulterers from public office.

    My hot take: anyone who has been proven to have cheated on his/her spouse should be prohibited by law from ever holding public office. If you'll cheat on your spouse then you'll take bribes too. Here I stand.
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     Open theism in light of the Incarnation

    I've been amusing myself watching this thread from a poster named @Jewjitzu who is apparently a non-Christian Jew. The amusement for me is in noting how this unbelieving Jew uses the exact same prooftexts that classical theologians use to disprove open theism, but he uses them to disprove the...
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     Thinking through humility, and what it looks like.

    One objection that I've often heard from Calvinists is this: What made you better than your unsaved neighbor who didn't believe the gospel? The thrust of this question is that our belief makes us qualitatively better than our neighbor who hears the gospel but doesn't believe; and that if we are...
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     Question for Calvinists re: Simon Magus

    Was Simon Magus regenerate when he believed and was baptized? See Acts 8:13: "Then Simon himself also believed; and when he was baptized he continued with Philip, and was amazed, seeing the miracles and signs which were done." After trying to bribe the apostles for the ability to impart the...
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     The lesson to be learned from media scandals.

    So Fox News settled their defamation lawsuit with Dominion. Now Tucker Carlson is out. CNN, NBC, and WaPo settled their lawsuits with Nick Sandmann a few years ago. And of course, Alex Jones lost his defamation lawsuits with the Sandy Hook parents. What does all of this mean? It ought to...
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     How can any Calvinist have assurance that God loves them?

    Can a Calvinist point to any verse of Scripture and say "God loves me?" No. The reason is that their theology requires them to qualify any such verse since there cannot possibly be a general guarantee in the Bible of God's love for any individual. This means that when the Calvinist looks to...
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     Calvinism's dark view of God in regards to infants and children.

    So there's a quote I came across on the internet recently which I had never heard before and which I found rather shocking. It is attributed to Jonathan Edwards and apparently it is legit, although quoted slightly out of context. Here is the partial quote that I saw: "It is most just...
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     Trump v DeSantis - who is preferable?

    First of all, I don't vote. I haven't voted in any general election in almost 20 years and I don't plan on voting next year either. But I'm curious about perspectives on Trump v DeSantis particularly among evangelicals who think Trump would be the preferable nominee. Why?
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     Calvinists have a consistency problem, part two.

    Here's the question: Were you saved before you even heard the gospel? Were you saved when you heard but before you believed? Or were you saved once you heard AND believed? If you answer option #3, then on what principled basis can you claim that Arminians are universalists if they believe...
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     Calvinists have a consistency problem.

    Seeing as how every Calvinist believes that God ordains all things including those things which His word says He hates, what is the problem with believing that God would send Christ to die for the people He hates? Why would God's hatred of Esau be a barrier to sending Christ to die for Him...
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     Matthew 23:37 is an example of middle knowledge

    "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!" Almost every Calvinist interpretation of this verse that I've ever read...
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     Do Calvinists believe that middle knowledge exists at all?

    Or more specifically; do Calvinists believe that true subjunctive conditionals (or true counterfactuals) exist and have actual truth value? I just watched this video by James White in which he takes issue with the idea. The problem is that I've seen other videos of White in which he seems to...
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     Calculating the odds of an individual's existence - a question.

    This question is mainly intended for Christians, or at least those who believe in God; but it has relevance for an atheist too I suppose. It seems to me that the odds of my existence must have been insurmountably high, yet here I am. And the same goes for you. Just as you or I have an...
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     The Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth.

    And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” (Gen. 6:6-7) How does...
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     If regeneration brings a dead man to life, why doesn't it also make him sinless?

    One of the logical problems I have with the Calvinist understanding of regeneration is that I don't see any reason to think that God wouldn't go whole hog and cause the elect individual to live a sinless life from that point forward. In the parable of the wheat and the tares, God forbids even...
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     Does God ever have a plan B?

    If God is exhaustively determining all things, including human decisions, why do we see Him so frequently regretting His decisions in the Bible? Would God ordain a human choice that He knows He will come to regret? I won't bury this OP in citations (they aren't hard to find), but I'll just use...
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     God's omnipotence vs. God's sovereignty

    I maintain that God's "naked omnipotence", meaning His omnipotence without regard to any of His other attributes, is sufficient to guarantee that He is able to bring anything He desires to pass. He does not need to also be sovereign. Think about the implications of the word "omnipotence." If...
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     Calvinism and prayers for the dead

    Calvinists have historically been quite hostile to the idea of prayers for the dead. I have to ask: why? Isn't it true that the eternal destiny of the living person is no less certain than that of the person already deceased? If Calvinists can pray for the living so as to help our wills...
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