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by CThomas
Wed Dec 04, 2013 7:47 pm
Forum: Ethics
Topic: Vicarious Forgiveness
Replies: 8
Views: 4573

Vicarious Forgiveness

This may be more of a request for pastoral-type guidance than simple theology, and if that strains the purpose of the message board than I apologize in advance. This perhaps falls under the general category of forgiveness. But it isn't "direct" forgiveness. It has to do with the attitude one should ...
by CThomas
Mon Nov 04, 2013 12:49 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Hell book complete
Replies: 97
Views: 59239

Re: Hell book complete

Dag nabbit -- in my excitement I posted this message in the wrong discussion thread. Not sure if there's a way to have that incorrectly placed comment removed from the "Debating an Atheist" page. "Good news -- Amazon has sent me a notice that the book has been shipped. At long last, the Hell book ge...
by CThomas
Mon Oct 28, 2013 10:23 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Hell book complete
Replies: 97
Views: 59239

Re: Hell book complete

I guess Steve makes a fair point that it is probably at least theoretically possible that reading the book could influence JR's assessment of its contents.

CThomas
by CThomas
Thu Oct 17, 2013 8:54 am
Forum: The Pentateuch
Topic: "Sinai"
Replies: 7
Views: 4753

Re: "Sinai"

Thanks for the insights on this stuff, fellas. Steve, it is particularly inspiring that you are able to maintain a harmonious marriage when the two of you are divided over such a fundamental issue of doctrine.

CThomas
by CThomas
Wed Oct 16, 2013 10:40 am
Forum: The Pentateuch
Topic: "Sinai"
Replies: 7
Views: 4753

"Sinai"

Do you ever get some trivial little question in your mind that nags at you even though there is no importance to it whatsoever? I think this keeps coming up in my mind because I just finished Steve's lectures on the Pentateuch (starting Joshua now . . . .). Really outstanding lectures, by the way. B...
by CThomas
Fri Oct 11, 2013 8:08 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Hell book complete
Replies: 97
Views: 59239

Re: Hell book complete

Drat -- Amazon just notified me that delivery of my copies are delayed until November. Oh, well. Looking forward to reading it whenever the release does occur.

CThomas
by CThomas
Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:09 pm
Forum: The Pentateuch
Topic: Inter-generational Visiting of Rewards/Punishments
Replies: 10
Views: 6458

Re: Inter-generational Visiting of Rewards/Punishments

Thanks, Robby. That does help me to understand your view better. I appreciate your taking the time to elaborate, and I will certainly give it some thought.

CThomas
by CThomas
Fri Oct 04, 2013 12:44 pm
Forum: The Pentateuch
Topic: Inter-generational Visiting of Rewards/Punishments
Replies: 10
Views: 6458

Re: Inter-generational Visiting of Rewards/Punishments

Thanks, Robby. It seems to me that if this is your reading, it requires much more than an allegorization of the numbers 3 and 4, though. It seems to require abandonment of most of the literal meaning of the text of the passages, since you don't read the passage as indicating a visitation of the sins...
by CThomas
Fri Oct 04, 2013 12:07 pm
Forum: The Pentateuch
Topic: Inter-generational Visiting of Rewards/Punishments
Replies: 10
Views: 6458

Re: Inter-generational Visiting of Rewards/Punishments

Thanks, Robby, but even accepting your interpretation of the text, your reading would make the problem far more problematic, not less. Now instead of having potential conflicts for four generations following the commission of the sin, you have a far longer chain of fathers and sons subject to being ...
by CThomas
Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:27 am
Forum: The Pentateuch
Topic: Inter-generational Visiting of Rewards/Punishments
Replies: 10
Views: 6458

Re: Inter-generational Visiting of Rewards/Punishments

Thanks, Matt. It occurs to me that one other possibility is that if you do look at it more in a mechanical way, they could partially or wholly offset each other. If you imagine a single quantitative measure for purposes of illustration, if the cross-generational effect of 1's misconduct is a -3, and...

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