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Thanks, Paidion and Homer for your good questions sparking some good considerations. Happy 4th, too. So, Paidion, yes, you were ''on to something" by noticing that I used the word "move" not "force" with respect to God "moving" our free will. Note, too, that I asserted that God can move our free wil...

Thanks, Homer. Let me first say, right off the bat, based on your last response, that, when we delve into this particular area of theology—the “Problem of Evi”—we are delving into an area that, quite often and easily, can strike a very personal note for most, if not, all, of us, as most, if not all,...

Hi, Homer-- Here are my takes. When we say that God is all-powerful, we mean that He can do anything that is truly possible. But, some things are metaphysically and logically impossible: for example, making a square circle (that's a contradiction in terms). Some goods are only possible to exist if a...

Thanks, Paidion. I certainly don’t disagree with the idea that God does not take away free will in man. However, if God is all-powerful, He is able to move a man’s free will to FREELY choose the good. In fact, every time we choose good, we are not the PRIMARY cause of that good choice: God is (we ar...

So, it seems to me that we have not reached an entirely certain conclusion on the exact intended meaning of Hebrews 1:8 (whether the author intended the nominative or the vocative sense in that verse), as arguments can be made for either translation. While this is a very interesting question concern...

Hello, Paidion-- Thank you for your reply, Paidion. While I have my own ideas in response to your response/questions, I would first be interested to hear how you yourself respond to your own questions, how you would respond to the difficulty of the "Problem of Evil" (that is, of believing/knowing th...

And, oh yes, to respond to the objections denying God's existence, to the first objection (the "problem of evil"), we can say, with Augustine, "Since God is the highest good, He would not allow any evil to exist in His works, unless His omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of...

Hmmmm....Okay, thanks StevenD....so, yea, huh...with this new information, it appears that the nominative, in some instances, CAN be used as the vocative, so it seems (it appears, also, that in John 17:25, Christ addresses the Father, but the Greek uses the nominative case for "Father" instead of th...

Greetings, I’m gonna just “throw this out here” for anyone interested in joining in… The recent posts we have had concerning the Trinity has alerted me to the fact that it might be beneficial—and fun—for us to simply “start from the top” with respect to “doing theology” (for, in those recent threads...

GREAT story! Love it! Thanks, Paidion! God bless you, brother!

In Christ,
BrotherAlan