The following e-mail correspondence took place in October of 2009 (slightly edited for readability): Hello– I’ll intersperse my comments below. But before I do, I need to say that since I do not know what your beliefs are, then I do not know if you are truly a Christian or not. And since I do [...]
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Hello, Josh- My comments interspersed. You wrote: ==Thank you for responding again. I wonder if you have misunderstood me. I never said that God CANNOT control all things, just that he DOES NOT have to. == I had written: “The god who did not create the universe and everything in it is an idol; and [...]
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Hello, Josh- You wrote: ==Thank you for your response. I wanted to respond fairly quickly so that you might get it tonight. Yes, the links are helpful. I do think, however, that you have engaged in faulty logic. Let me explain. Just because I do not see from the Scriptures that God automatically predestines all [...]
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[The following correspondence began on April 26, 2011. The Lord willing, I will be slightly editing things like spelling or grammatical errors on my part.] Hello, Josh- Marc Carpenter is the editor of the Outside the Camp newsletter (thus, I put him on the “Cc” line). The Outside the Camp web site is the web [...]
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The following is an old e-mail correspondence that took place in October of 2009: Is the interpretation of 1 Corinthians 7 v1 below correct? The full article is linked below for you to reference. I really want to get this right and it seems to be at odds with your understanding per your advice to [...]
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Marc: Okay, I’ll jump in. Chris D wrote: ==While living on earth in the body, I don’t see how physical senses such as the eyes (rods, cones, etc.) and brain (synapses, neurons, etc.) can be separated out from the invisible intellectual mind. There is something harmonious going on between them.== Marc: Yet there are people [...]
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After reading your respons concerning the role of sensation in obtaining knowledge ,is it correct if I called your epistemics position as common-sense realism ? I have no idea. You would have to define “common-sense realism” and then logically demonstrate that it is in error using the Scriptures. ==If I understand you correctly ,then what [...]
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If I may give a suggestion about your epistemological position : why don ‘t you begin to constructing a truly biblical-christian doctrine of true knowledge ,instead of only became a “reactioners” to other positions [i.e.-scripturalism] ? Thank you all .. I think I understand what you are saying regarding a construction of a truly biblical [...]
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==As I reading almost every article you wrote in the OTC discussion forum ,I think that you were almost never wrote about “epistemology” issues ,that is the question : is there such thing as the biblical christian doctrine of true knowledge which is absolutly antithetical toward the unregenerate-unbeliever view of knowledge ?== Chris: Some time [...]
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“Epistemology issues” (7)
1 -If we consider the concept of the Holy Spirit ‘s conviction of sin in scripture ,then the question is this – through which part of human “sense” the Spirit works – either through his visible-physical sense or through his invisible-intellectual [mind] sense ,because both sin & the Holy Spirit are not the object of [...]
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