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By "my Paraclete," I mean the point of connection where the Holy Spirit contacts my human spirit. My spirit is like an electric socket; the Holy Spirit is the power station. He provides an extension cord to plug into my spirit. KJV, Genesis 2: When God created man, a (detached) breath of life...

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Thanks for the reference. This is how to do referencing and quotation in a scholarly manner: Display and indent the relevant text. Selectively bold the particular keywords that are important to your point. There is no need to bold the entire sentence. Have a laser-sharp focus. Be concise and...

Quantum superposition cannot be applied to macroscopic objects. Schrödinger himself agreed with you. Wiki: I understand the situation through probability. There is a certain probability that the cat is alive, but we don't know for sure until we observe it. The actual probability can be...

What do you mean? Probabilities as a math concept exist. Can you be more precise? If you can phrase it as a proposition, it would be best :)

Did I assert the opposite?

Jesus fed the five thousand in Matt 14: Matthew did not distinguish between fish and bread among the leftovers. In the next chapter, Jesus fed the four thousand: Again, Matthew did not distinguish between fish and bread among the leftovers, symbolizing God's abundant provision. However, John...

This is my attempt to order the four accounts of the empty tomb morning. At least five women went to the tomb on Resurrection Sunday. Four of them were named: Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, Joanna, and Salome (Mark 16:1). The women found the resurrection morning frightening. The...

I edited the OP to clarify. Please take another look. God is omniscient and omnipotent. In that sense, he is the first cause of everything. However, I would not detail all human events as logical consequences like that. There are probabilities and even the scientific Uncertainty Principle...

How certain are you?

What are THEY? What is the first cause?

The word "inerrant" is not in the Bible. The term is not in the Scripture. I neither believe nor disbelieve it. When it comes to doctrines, I prefer to adhere to the phraseology of the Scripture. I would not bother using the term in the formal doctrinal sense. People who like to generalize tend...

ESV, Jeremiah 13: If the people of Judah will not listen to Jeremiah's warnings, Strong's Hebrew: 5315. נָ֫פֶשׁ (nephesh) — 754 Occurrences Brown-Driver-Briggs: = that which breathes, the breathing substance or being = ψυχή, anima, the soul, the inner being of man: The נפשׁ as the essential...

Moses prescribed capital punishment in Exodus 21: Acts 25: If I am guilty of death, then let them execute me. Paul was okay with the death penalty. See also Was the death sentence always carried out in the OT?

Fasting and prayer were sometimes paired in the OT. BSB, Psalm 35: Daniel 9: There was no guarantee that fasting and prayer would always change an outcome. David committed adultery and murder in 2 Samuel 12: In the end, the child still died. In the Gospels, the disciples could not cast out a...