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You aren't addressing my question. Without logic, how do you know whether "the word of the LORD" in your Bible -- which got there through the decisions of men poring over competing texts-- is accurately recorded?

And it's a little silly. With rare exceptions, convincing others of the errors in their thinking just doesn't happen here.

I don't think so.

As Sir Isaac Newton once commented, “It is the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and for that reason to like best what they understand least.”

Methinks you are selling logic short. Without the exercise of logic, how do you know that what is recorded in your Bible "is recorded with His approval"? There are lots of discrepancies among the oldest available Codexes, and it falls to textual criticism -- a discipline marked by exercises of...

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That's not how I understand the OP. I'd put it this way: In recent times Christians and especially Evangelicals seem to have abandoned the intellectual approach to understanding Christianity and theology in general, a trend which is diminishing their ranks among the educated. It's a trend...

Q. Why does it take a million sperm to fertilize one egg? A. Because they won't ask for directions.

Ah. Proposition 101 has arrived. Mark51, I may owe you an apology.

I'm male. I don't ask for directions.

Can you support your "yes" with some logical argument?

Perhaps because I was a Philosophy major in college, I tend to gravitate toward the logical and the theological as much as the Scriptural support for the positions I see on this site. But that approach is seldom front and center on these posts. Anthony Alberino is right to decry the demise of...

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I'm not disagreeing with your analysis of the passages you cite. I just didn't see -- and still don't see -- Big Boy claiming that Jesus was God. Not in (1) "Jesus claimed to be God," not in (2) "Jesus created all things" . . . not in (100) "Jesus came to proclaim freedom for believers," not...

Got it now, thanks.

That's all well and good. I am only probing the sense in which you say God "blamed Himself." Can you just address that, please?

So, you read Paul's statement "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness" to mean "All scripture -- including gospels and epistles that have yet to be penned and including all of my own letters to...

Done. But my question stands.

Which of Big Boy's 100 propositions do these passages gainsay? I didn't see a single one of those 100 that said Jesus Christ is God.

Okay, I will pose my question in your terms: Do you "believe" that 2 Tim. 3:16, "as it is written, plain and clear," includes the NT within the meaning of "Scripture"?