You said in the parting gift of your last paragraph that “The Bible’s God is Triune, demonstrated not assumed”.

But demonstrated how? All you have done is to show that patterns can be extracted from a text and that symbolic triad can be (re)arranged, Nothing is demonstrated.

 “When treated as data rather than prose”….once again, this is a catego…[Read more]

There is so much wrong here that I am not sure where to start. I will pick some points out. The whole piece reminds me of what Dan Dennett called a ‘deepity’. Lots of big words too so I will try not to be too much of a sesquipedalian.

‘But conceptual analysis still carries a burden: a concept that does not exist in its source domain cannot gen…[Read more]

@ Robert

“This conservative move toward antisemitism was predictable.”

Yeah totally. I predicted it years ago.

And agree regarding rest of your take. Similarly it was true of the Iranian revolution. The stupid socialists/marxist were executed once the Shah was overthrown. No such thing as a “good….fill in the blank for racist ideologues.

jakelafort wrote:
King reminds me of the Progressives/Woke in their pathetic intellectualizing of their racism against Jews and in how they try to discredit state of Israel. Just give me a theist who is honest. I have faith which means i got nothing dude. Absolutely nothing. Give me Nazis. Sure there is a mythology but at base nobody gonna take…

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King reminds me of the Progressives/Woke in their pathetic intellectualizing of their racism against Jews and in how they try to discredit state of Israel. Just give me a theist who is honest. I have faith which means i got nothing dude. Absolutely nothing. Give me Nazis. Sure there is a mythology but at base nobody gonna take it seriously. Give…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
The Trinity presupposes a God-concept that the Bible itself never articulates. The God presented in the Bible is a single personal agent, whereas the Trinity redefines God as a “tri-personal” being which is a category shift not made by the biblical authors.

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If I was on that flight I would start singing “Allahu Akbar” and if asked to stop,would then sue the airline for religious discrimination.

jakelafort wrote:
You guys have ripped King a new one. Chances he admits he is wrong?

Never.

I just read a story about members of a church musical group who sang and played jesus worship music mid-flight. Fucking morons, the crew allowed it. It’s so awesome I live in a one party, christian nationalism fueled, authoritarian country that trashes…[Read more]

You guys have ripped King a new one.

Chances he admits he is wrong?

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
@simon – I am not trying to prove it false. I am evaluating whether it is textually grounded and conceptually coherent. I was doing conceptual analysis, not arguing metaphysics. The doctrine of the Trinity is not derivable from the text it claims as its source. My claim stands. irrespective of the existence or not o…

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