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The midterm elections were a significant gauge of the American people's response to Democrats as an alternative to GOP leadership, a response which I think can accurately be labeled favorable. A net gain of 40 House seats, and a loss o…
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I suppose every legislative dispute between the executive and legislative branches of our government has power elements in it. The president has made clear to his supporters, for example, that he's not going to budge - just yesterday s…
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At issue in the current impasse is the shut down of part of the federal government, including some services within the White House. The VAST, VAST majority of affected government operations are outside the White House, so in my view, y…
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In my view, "Father" is a name or title for God that Jesus and others in the New Testament use. Jesus calls God his "Father," and encourages his followers to pray to their "Father" in heaven. NT writers call God "the Father of our Lord…
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Revelation 1.8, in which God claims to be the Alpha and Omega "who is, and was, and is to come" is the better parallel to Rev 22.13, in my view. BUT Revelation 1.4-5 make clear John's view that Jesus is NOT "the one who is, and was, an…
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The Democrats' view writ large (there are varying points of view within the House and Senate caucuses, but there are large pieces of common ground) is that the government should not be shut down and 800,000 federal workers sho…
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The fact that Donald Trump is father TO his children in no way suggests that he IS his children (or that his children are him!) any more than does the fact that he is husband TO Melania mean that he IS Melania (or that Melania is him).…
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I don't feel equipped to engage the linguistic issues you all are addressing in this thread (but congratulations on an excellent discussion!) I do, however, feel competent to engage a different aspect of the issue under review.
In my view…
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To continue the biblical theme of my original response, I guess Daniel wasn't a Trumpster.
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Biblically speaking, the handwriting is on the wall (and not the one at the southern border which the president says is mostly done and that Mexico's going to pay for!)
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To my understanding of Catholic thought, Jesus IS enough. Mary serves NO salvific or mediation function that belongs to him. She is a heavenly intercessor much in the way we are earthly intercessors for each other.
It seems a m…
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Thanks for your contribution to this and other threads, and welcome to CD! I wish for you a blessed experience from your participation.
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It IS different, reformed, because I DIDN'T call you "juvenile," while you DID in fact call me an idiot. Let's examine the record:
in Heartless American 2.0 Comment by Bill_Coley December 2018
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Whether "the shoe fits," or you "call them like (you) see them," or any other bromide you can call up is true doesn't change the fact that calling people idiots in the course of discussions on a Christian forum is juvenile... at best.<…
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Catholics look to the references to "the prayers of the saints" in Revelation 5.8 and Revelation 8.3-4 as supportive of the idea of heavenly intercession. I know of no specific verse(s) that refer specifically to Mary.
How do y…
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Sometimes, reformed, you write with such maturity and sophistication. Sadly, however, far more often you write juvenile inanity such as calling people idiots.
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When the president said he would take full responsibility for any government shutdown related to border security funding - and not blame the Democrats at all - was he lying?
As for the Democrats' not negotiating, come next wee…
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Among Catholic Christians, Mary has had, and continues to have, great influence. Among Orthodox and Protestant Christians, her influence has been limited to the small number of texts in which she appears, texts in which she is a charac…
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I think Wolfgang does an excellent job of engaging this issue, so I defer to his response.
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In your view, you have discovered the "truth" about Jesus. Praise God! What I encourage you to accept is that in my view, I also have discovered the "truth" about Jesus. By all appearances, no further "delay" is needed for either of us…
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No. You've given "more than enough references to prove the Trinity" IN YOUR VIEW. In my and Wolfgang's views, WE have given "more than enough references" to DISprove the Trinity.
And there's nothing "stupid" ab…
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I don't know which OT verses you're referring to, of course, but an issue similar to the one I just summarized arises in the Old Testament. The vast majority of verses (99%, perhaps?) declare God as one, a single entit…
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As I noted in my previous post, the passage I cited makes NO Trinitarian-supportive mention of God and Jesus. In fact, in Hebrews 1.5 the author says God said to Jesus "You are my Son, today I have begotten you…
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I find NO Trinitarian-supportive reference to God the Father and God the Son in the epistle of Hebrews. I look forward to the verses/passages you will cite.
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In my view, the writer there makes a clear and inarguable distinction between God and Jesus. I believe there is no sense in which those verses can be read to mean that the writer believes Jesus IS God.
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The point I think Wolfgang is making is that Genesis 1.27 basically restates Genesis 1.26. Were there any Godhead-defining significance to the plural pronoun in v.26, it's reasonable to believe we'd see a repetition of "us" in v.27... …
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Thanks for bringing to our attention this compelling summary of the many faces of the president's legal troubles, CM. Excellent find.
The walls are closing in on Mr Trump, the massive extent of whose personal, professional, and…
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In my view, your question requires a multi-layered and biblically/theologically rooted response, one for which I don't have the time or energy at the moment. In short, my responses are yes, Christ died for all, and God's wrath is situa…
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My "out of context" comment was not in any sense about your textual analysis. It was specifically and solely about the phrase I highlighted from your previous post: "John is full of it." It is THAT phrase, when taken o…
