Posts by Thao

  Quote: Thao: Right, OK. Well. Same argument applies, really. (And I'll add it's not just the definition of God's sovereignty that causes issues for LFW - a definition in which I might differ slightly from Catholics -...

  Quote: Thao, this whole thing stemmed from the discussion about believing in both libertarian free will and predestination, right? I was saying that such a belief is logically impossible, and you and Bluegoat were...

  Quote: Because if the facts in the Bible aren't enough to give one the confidence to make meaningful statements about God, one has to conclude that God gave us an entirely useless book. And the same epistemology would...

  Quote: A heliocentric universe isn't ultimately a philosophical question, though; it's a scientific one. I'd file the freewill thing more under the same category as "Can A be both A and not-A at the same time and...

  Quote: Yes, but epistemically there's a vast difference. The latter maintains that those passages are still theoretically knowable by the same methods that are used to interpret other Scriptures, or indeed other...

  Quote: I don't believe there's any reason parts of the Biblical text should be inherently opaque - after all, it would be odd of God to write something no-one could or would ever understand. But yes, I think there are...

Thanks for the clarification, Smokering, although I have to confess I'm still not clear on how you define sola scriptura. "Infallible rule of faith" is one of those phrases that could mean multiple things and requires further...

  Quote: Eh, I think 1 Timothy 2:15's an easy one. It can't mean "saved BY childbearing", because that would contradict great chunks of Scripture which declare that salvation is by grace through faith;...

  Quote: In fact - speaking from the perspective of my own church - the problem is more basic than multiple or confused meanings. The NT was written not only by the early Church, but to and for the Church members. The...

  Quote: How is that different from "unknowable", if you're implying that it is impossible to determine the author's meaning (as opposed to simply difficult)? Well, you keep giving examples of words where...