Recent content by CadyandZoe

Your objection isn't valid for two reasons. First, your objection fails to understand a fundamental principle of our existence. If God doesn't create them and all the choices they make the alternative is nonexistence. "All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into...

According to him, we rejoice in our sufferings, but it is evident that he is referring to those who have a tested and proven faith. Only those with an established faith can experience happiness amidst trials of faith because they are aware that they will not falter or lose hope. Understand...

Okay. So what? How is rewarding the good and punishing the evil hypocritical? I don't get that.

We boast in our tribulations because the proof of our faith is clear evidence that we are among those whom God is saving. I don't reject the warnings. I see them for what they are. But unlike you, I don't interpret them through the lenses of contingency. I don't live in fear of what MIGHT...

I understand your objection. To be clear, I am asserting that God is creating stories that display his glory. The stories will have trials, struggles, sinning, love, resentment, goals, mysteries, adventures, clothes washing and everything else we see. And through these stories, we see the...

I hate to speak for you because I don't want to put words in your mouth or disrespect you in any way. :) I am reacting to those who reject divine determinism because it leads to the unbiblical conclusion that God causes evil. I maintain that Paul deals with this objection in his epistle to the...

We are considering passages like Romans 10:9, which appear to be conditional promises. A conditional promise is a commitment that is contingent upon the occurrence of a specific event or fulfillment of certain conditions. In other words, the promisor’s obligation to perform is subject to a prior...

Okay. Now we have two different fundamental states of existence in view: one is real, the other is fictional. Now, can you imagine a fundamental state of existence that is more real than real?

Well, okay. I'm sorry for my inaccurate wording. We are talking about the concept of limited atonement, and those who reject limited atonement bring us to John 3:16, believing that John meant to say that the cross was efficacious for everyone. We should remember that the cross was efficacious...

I am reacting to those who maintain that God rewards people based on their choice to believe in him and his son. Doesn't conditional salvation sound like quid pro quo? Suppose a farmer makes a deal with a rancher. He promises to give the rancher some fruit if he keeps his cows out of the...

I think you mean to say that the character in the novel does not perform "real" actions. But he does perform actions—fictional actions. The only difference between real actions and fictional actions is a matter of ontological categories. The Bible teaches us that God transcends his creation and...

Peter speaks about those who are born-again to a living hope. In your view, the presence of warnings nullifies our hope and it isn't actually a living hope at all.

Yes, but in that passage, he mentions two different boasts: 1) boast in the hope of the glory of God and 2) boast in our tribulations. I was making reference to his second mention of boasting. Why do we boast in our tribulations, according to Paul? And not only this, but we also exult in our...

Jesus tells a parable about one son who obeys his father and another son who doesn't. Did Jesus cause the sons to behave the way they did?

This isn't a problem for my view.