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- Sun Apr 26, 2009 4:13 pm
- Forum: Calvinism, Arminianism & Open Theism
- Topic: Can God know the Future?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 25608
Re: Can God know the Future?
Can a statement about something that is predicted will occur next week have "false value" today? When someone utters the sentence "The Montreal Canadians will win the hockey game next week", they are not uttering a statement (statements are either true or false). But the sentence has the form of a ...
- Sun Apr 26, 2009 3:36 pm
- Forum: Theology Proper, Christology, Pneumatology
- Topic: Proof that the Holy Spirit is personal
- Replies: 23
- Views: 11050
Re: Proof that the Holy Spirit is personal
Greetings Dean, I just want you to know that I was not as dogmatic as I appeared concerning John 16:13 proving that the Spirit is personal. It was my hope my "dogmatism" would spark enough interest that someone would provide me with some kind of counterexample. The article at the link you provided t...
- Sat Apr 25, 2009 11:29 pm
- Forum: Calvinism, Arminianism & Open Theism
- Topic: Can God know the Future?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 25608
Re: Can God know the Future?
Thank you Homer and Suzana for your recent questions. I haven't even been going to the forum for the past day and a half. For I have been studying a link which Dean gave me in response to my thread "Proof that the Holy Spirit is Personal". I found the link he provided quite fascinating, and so I hav...
- Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:13 pm
- Forum: Eschatology
- Topic: What is the Millennial Reign?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3677
Re: What is the Millennial Reign?
From what I see here, the time period doesn't define or restrict Christ's reign. And that would make sense because we know that His reign is eternal. Mike where do you get the idea that Christ's reign is eternal? Paul clearly states in I Corinthians 15, that Christ will reign only until all His ene...
- Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:03 pm
- Forum: Views of Hell
- Topic: More thoughts about αἰωνιος κολασις
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4415
Re: More thoughts about αἰωνιος κολασις
No problem, Todd. I realize that knowing another person's stance on a matter, a stance with which one disagrees, makes it tempting to address his position.
- Fri Apr 24, 2009 5:54 pm
- Forum: Theology Proper, Christology, Pneumatology
- Topic: Proof that the Holy Spirit is personal
- Replies: 23
- Views: 11050
Re: Proof that the Holy Spirit is personal
It's not grammatical agreement at all! I'ts just the opposite --- grammatical disagreement. That's what proves the case. The pronoun is masculine and its referent is neuter. If the Holy Spirit were impersonal, a masculine pronoun would not be used to refer to it/him. Would you please post Daniel Wal...
- Fri Apr 24, 2009 11:38 am
- Forum: Eschatology
- Topic: Left Behind......sheesh!
- Replies: 28
- Views: 8029
Re: Left Behind......sheesh!
Perhaps the clearest quote (and this was long after the Roman invasion of 70 A.D.) comes from Irenaeus (A.D. 120-202) in Against Heresies Book 5, Ch 26, part 1: In a still clearer light has John, in the Apocalypse, indicated to the Lord’s disciples what shall happen in the last times, and concernin...
- Fri Apr 24, 2009 11:23 am
- Forum: Views of Hell
- Topic: More thoughts about αἰωνιος κολασις
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4415
Re: More thoughts about αἰωνιος κολασις
Todd, my argument doesn't address the point you are trying to make. It addresses the fact that both the correction of the "goats" and the life of the "sheep" are αἰωνιος (lasting).
- Fri Apr 24, 2009 11:01 am
- Forum: Theology Proper, Christology, Pneumatology
- Topic: Proof that the Holy Spirit is personal
- Replies: 23
- Views: 11050
Proof that the Holy Spirit is personal
Many claim the Holy Spirit to be the impersonal force of God to accomplish what God decides to do. But the words of John 16:13 clearly show the Holy Spirit to be personal: ὁταν δε ἐλθη ἐκεινος το πνευμα της ἀληθειας ὁδηγησει ὑμας εἰς την ἀληθειαν πασαν Now when that one comes, the spirit of reality,...
- Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:30 pm
- Forum: Calvinism, Arminianism & Open Theism
- Topic: Can God know the Future?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 25608
Re: Can God know the Future?
I think your statement is neither true nor false but yet I know you said it. If I made a statement, then it is either true or false, for all statements are either true or false. Sentences about the future are neither true nor false; thus they are not statements. I call them "metastatements" since t...