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CNN is more "left-leaning" than MSNBC? My goodness, so much am I tuned into the network, my TV has the MSNBC logo burned into a spot at the bottom of the screen precisely because MSNBC is the more left-leaning of the two networks. I ke…
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Sure seems that Mueller's team and his grand jury believe there's something to see there. But I DO understand how comforting a mantra that is for you and your fellow Trumpsters.
The most haunting part of this indictment for Tru…
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In those 17 words, David, you distill the essence of the Trumpster approach to the Mueller probe. Well done.
Now you've apparently seen Mueller's evidence, so you're in a better position than I to know, but were I a Trumpster …
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And some Russians need to learn quickly how to cope with federal charges. Perhaps folks on team Trump will get some pointers from their Russian forerunners.
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I encourage you to review your statement here, David, a statement which seems to suggest that you believe the current reality - a proliferation of guns and regularly occurring mass shooting events - is the product of "cooler, more logi…
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"Who knows"? What else do you need to know when Trump's attorney tells you that he paid $130,000 to silence a porn star who had claimed to have had a sexual liaison with his client? In your experience, are such payments more often than…
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I hope you smiled, even snickered, as you wrote those words about Trump's support for Christian values. Via his public statements in the last week he showed that his first instinct is to support alleged spouse abusers and remain silent…
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And I'm "tired" of our doing nothing to intervene in this societal disease, no matter how many people die when others pull triggers.
Recently, while driving, in Florida School Shooting-- NRA Christians to Blame? Comment by Bill_Coley February 2018
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You're ever the generous one. But to help more people with your investment, send one to one of your local public schools instead.
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You and I disagree as to the intentions of the second amendment and the nature/construction of the "well regulated militia" to which it refers.
That said, I can't see how defending one's home, person, or family, or hunting deer…
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I invite you to continue to object when people call for corrective action in the aftermath of school- and other mass shootings, David (that IS what you're objecting to when tell me I'm "politicizing" it) At some point…
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You may well disagree with THAT assertion, as well, but if so, at least you'll object to a conclusion I've actually come to.
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I hold the gunman responsible for the killings. I hold the NRA and others resistant to any change in our management of guns responsible for contributing to the expansive vision of gun rights that has arisen in the last 20 years or so, …
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I don't think the word "reputation" serves you well in this instance because it has a meaning very different from the self-emptiness Paul reports to the Philippians.
That being said, I continue to claim that BEFORE the resurrec…
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Well, at least I understood you correctly.
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I propose that the more accurate phrasing here is "If you don't believe something, does that mean nobody else believes it?" The use of the verb "to understand" come across to me as suggestive of a bel…
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You seem to assume that if we had the Lord's "understanding," we would agree with the doctrine of the Trinity. What if the Trinity is NOT correct? Would the Lord's "understanding" still lead us to agree with the Trinity?
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I've highlighted two points of your reaction, Wolfgang, because they make important points: The author DOES seem to assume (without proof) the truth of Trinitarian thinking, and we HAVE engaged many of the texts he cites, most often co…
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I’m impressed by the dimensions of the argument the author makes in these articles - he gathers an enormous number of verses/passages - but I am not impressed by the care with which he addresses his subject. A few examples:
(Quote)To make its case, the article to which you link, Gao Lu, cites numerous texts, many of which we have engaged in these forums. What the article does not do - principally because it's not in the purview of the piece - is engage the many-…
(Quote)I find this packaging of your response to the issue of Jesus' "reputation" easier to unpack, Dave, so thanks.
Lists of things for which Jesus did not become known do not particularly interest me because I think Paul makes a poi…
(Quote)I THINK I agree with you, but I'm not sure. The "man" didn't write the text, but the "writers" did? What's the difference between the "man" and the "writers"?
I also don't believe God dictated the words we find in the Bible.
(Quote)I don't know what you meant by that response, particularly its first paragraph.
(Quote)The response I offered in my previous post in this thread remains valid now that we have clarified word choice.
In my view, for Paul, Jesus gained lasting fame as a result of God's raising him in the resurrection. Prior to the …
My reflections on the questions you posed in a response to Mitchell.
(Quote)I suggest that you read the questions you posed, CM - particularly #4 - as if you were a Christian who has decided Scripture doesn't support the Trinity doctr…
(Quote)Is this your veiled way of acknowledging that in his Acts 2 sermon to which I have referred on multiple occasions in this thread - e.g. Acts 2.22-24 - Peter DOES in fact seem to contend that Jesus was not God?
I disagree with y…
(Quote)I can't discern that point you're trying to make here, Dave. Please restate it.
(Quote)I'm not sure what you mean by "the same thing the 'government' says" about alcohol. Might you say more? If what you mean is that governments benefit from alcohol taxation, no doubt you are right. I can't think of a way parents can give…
(Quote)In my view, this is not a matter of first and middle names; this is a matter of last names. The language of Peter's sermon - language found in multiple other verses in Acts and the rest of the NT - suggests, to use your imagery, that P…
(Quote)I generally read the passages the way David does, C.M.
To the relevant Scripture list I would add...
- Numbers 18.12 - To the Aaronic priests God gives the best wine offered as gifts from the people. Hard to believe …
