Answer the Question with a Question (6)
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Do you suppose a veterinarian would find it useful?
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I only just read briefly about him. Apparently he was big on philosophy at USC, heading that dept. And he was also recognized for his contribution to Christianity in a few books. Sounds like he was a good fellow, though he taught at a very liberal university. Somehow, he managed!No problem. Your reply was helpful, as I don't know a lot about Amillenialism.
Do many systematic theologians include the book of Revelation in their theology. I read that Calvin didn't attempt a commentary on it either. That could be because his health wasn't good near the end of his life and he perhaps was finishing his Institutes.
Any thoughts on the late Dallas Willard in regard to Eschatology?
Whether we live in a virtual universe is one of those interesting ideas that, unfortunately, like solipsism, is of little practical value. Whether or not it's "real" in an outside sense, it's certainly real to us. How things work would be part of the code, so unless you could compare it to what's outside, looking for clues there is meaningless. So is applying to what seems reasonable to us to look for "flaws." Reasoning is much like a Rashomon problem, with what seems reasonable to one may not seem reasonable to another. Reasoning is influenced by priorities, which vary not only culturally but individually, and by individual understanding of how things work in the universe in general and culture in particular. Ultimately, unless we can look in from the outside, there's no way of telling if what we experience is a virtual universe or not.Having been an epistemological solipsist for over fifty years I've often wondered about how to tell whether the world around me is physically real or a simulation. The laws of physics seem to support the possibility of a simulation, but can't definitively answer the question, so I've been left to look for another means of determining whether I'm living in a simulation.
To that end I often wondered whether a character in a video game such as 'Grand Theft Auto' would be able to tell, simply by the behavior of the characters around it, that the world in which it was living wasn't 'real'. Would the fact that the characters seemed to act irrationally be a tip off to the possibility that it was living in a simulation? Or would it simply accept the simulation as real no matter how irrationally the characters in it behaved, or what the background story was.
I ask this because more and more the world seems to be behaving more like a poorly written video game than a naturally evolving physical reality. For instance, Donald Trump seems to be such a stereotypical narcissistic villain that it's hard to believe that he wasn't purposefully created just for this role, and his popularity, in spite of his obvious character flaws seems to defy reason.
So the question is, does reality pass the Turing test? Does it act like a freely evolving natural world, or does it act more like an purposely designed simulation?
Speaker Johnson could open the House for business, rather than extending their vacation.If you won't give me what I want, then let's have single combat. ROFL
No, jesus laid his life down and picked it up again.Actually the devil killed Jesus, just so ya know
Dark complexion is independent of skin colorMy apologies but this is hard to follow as skin complection for a man from the middle east being darker doesn't scream sin to me
So please elaborate
Feeling good or bad about life is human, but how do you know that you are experiencing the specific feeling she described? It's pretty detailed.I get that feeling when I think about how great my life is. It’s not exclusive to Christians.
Systems have components and processes, but that's beside the point. We wouldn't say a shirt isn't actually purple because we are aware that it contains dyes that reflect a combination of red and blue wavelengths. Understanding how purple works doesn't make the shirt less purple.It’s dopamine receptors going off.
It does try to evaluate sources, but that can become difficult for subjects where misinformation can come even from sources that ought to be reputable.Collectively the group tends to be more accurate than any random individual on their own, therefore information about obscure events will tend to have a greater margin of error due to the limited number of available sources. Information about general knowledge subjects on the other hand tend to be more widely available, with accurate information more likely to be cited within the group, and misinformation more likely to be described as such.
Although AI might not be able to 'reason' on its own, given sufficient sources it will tend to reflect the reasoning done by others.
The trajectory always arches because the earth is round and rotating. Just like airplane routes always arch for the same reason. The rocket launch is at t-6 hours right now. I did forget that you don’t live in the US so for you just add 6 hours to your present time to watch the launch.Thanks Hentenza, but you still don't see the rocket go straight up.
One more time. "The number one goal in sentencing should be to protect society." Agreed.Considering that none of the crimes mentioned are even close to what happened during the January 6 riot, I don't see the connection.
If you pick enough people that have a penchant for, let's say antisocial behaviour, a certain number of them will offend in the following time.
I don't see why some people were released while there were still outstanding warrants, though.
Guess that is a "No" to Boebert then.
Oh, those ICE witnesses...[In Chicago, two people were arrested for allegedly ramming fed vehicles. One US citizen woman in the car was armed, shot by CBP, drove herself to the hospital and taken into FBI custody upon her release.]
And I means that. I would explain. what I. see what 1 Cor 10:2 means and you can see how I see that verse , is whatWhat means, up to you?
It does not have meaning the way you post it -
Yes, the small pocket rosary does. Im going to give it to my mother.I believe I have the same wood rosary. Does it have a St. Benedict medal?
Having eternal life is not the same as having immortality - not to me, anyway.Where is Timothy now? If he did actually become immortal then, why did he remain on earth as Pauls helper?
A number of the verses I quoted said that whoever believes, has - present tense - eternal life.All of your "proofs', can be seen for what they are; the Promise of becoming immortal at the final Judgment.
Our lives, to God, are precious because he made us - and every human being - in his image.Our lives are; to God, all about testing and the choices we make.
I agree that he gives us the ability to choose.He has set up our world in a very clever way, so we all can choose our path in life.
Scripture says that those who believe in Jesus have eternal life.but those who do acknowledge God, keep His Commandments and believe in Jesus, will be given Eternal life
So this verse applies to you?Pretty sure only 1 of our positions accepts every Word of God applies to everyone and it wasn't yours
More than just the Latvians; SELK in Germany; Mission Diocese of Finland, Iceland and Lapland; Free Lutheran Church in France (they use or Canadian French translation of LSB, as do a bunch of French speaking Anglicans in Quebec), Mission Province of Sweden; Ukrainian Lutheran Church; Ingrian Lutheran Church in Siberia, and a whole ship-load of others. LOL Oops, forgot the small, confessional Synod in England. Some of these we are in full fellowship with, some we are in discussion with.Oh you have beautiful vestments, you and Mark’s church both are liturgically resplendant!
I find myself wishing there was an award that could be given to churches that do a particularly good job at liturgy, so as to recognize the appreciation of liturgical beauty, but not an award the awarding of which would be any kind of show, but rather just something that would pop out of no where to recognize the clergy, choirs and chancery or vestry or equivalent internal management structure of a church whose liturgy exuded beauty, as a means of glorifying God.
By the way I increasingly support open source Bible translations and those already in the public domain; one thing I admire about the Episcopal Church is historically they released all of their editions of the Book of Common Prayer into the public domain.
Also if memory serves, the Lutheran adaptation of the BCP that formed the basis for various historical Lutheran liturgies in the US such as the 1941 Lutheran hymnal was in the public domain, I think its called the “Common Service” and was a modification of the BCP to meet the specific Eucharistic and liturgical needs of the Lutheran churches, which at the time were primarily celebrating the Divine Service in the languages of the Old Country, such as German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian and so on - especially in German. I wonder if any German speaking Lutheran churches still exist in North America or if German is now used primarily by Old Order Mennonites, the related Amish group, and other Radical Reformed groups? There is a seriously endangered Lutheran speaking community in Texas which I don’t think is affiliated with the Mennonites, but it could be.
Of course we do have a few German and Scandinavian language churches such as those operated for mariners, but unfortunately in the case of the Scandinavian Lutheran churches if I recall all of these are associated with the churches in their own countries. If I recall the only Lutheran church in Europe that is part of the ILC along with the LCMS and the LCC is the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia. Interestingly, since the downfall of the former USSR, while the liberal Estonian church has not been able to substantially increase its membership vs. the large number of secular atheists who fell victim to the massive Soviet propaganda campaign and its aggressive subversion of various churches (with minority churches like the Lutherans being much more heavily scrutinized), the more traditional Latvian church has regained 30% of the population of that country, which is a huge victory for European Christianity.