Originally posted by Anomaly
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The idea of human goodness being outside of God was never put forth. Goodness proceeds from the thoughts and acts of people relative to the value content of the soul. I take good to be the logical product of the true. Since truth endues the essence of all creation until it's fragmentally falsified by human choice, the good produced by people--though produced from an inherent possession of truth in essence--is from God. Please try to avoid any more strawman arguments.
Sure.
1. [u]Gen 18 is a metaphoric account[/] teaching at least a two-part spiritual principle.
a. Perfect Justice demands that God destroy only evil, never good.
No such principle exists. You've invented this out of nothing.
Correct.
3. Gen 18 and Gen 19:1-19 confirms #1b
Conclusion: Spiritual principles a and b combine to suggest that God will not destroy a whole in which some good exists.
I assume that unless corrected the underlined portion of point 1 is not contested, only the remaining text in point #1.
1. Do you agree or disagree that God only destroys prescriptive, spiritual or moral badness, never goodness? If you disagree, please provide evidence from reason and/or Scripture.
Being killed is not the same thing as being destroyed.
Multiplicity is the property of being multiple. Lot, his family and numerous (v. 4) Sodomites are involved in the Gen 18-19 story.
2.. Do you agree or disagree that this mixture of people can rightly be referenced as a multiplicity? Please provide reasons if you disagree.
2.. Do you agree or disagree that this mixture of people can rightly be referenced as a multiplicity? Please provide reasons if you disagree.
"Wilt Thou indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?...Far be it from Thee to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from Thee! Shall not the Judge of all the earth deal justly?"
3. Do you agree or disagree that these words confirm Point1a? If you disagree, please explain why.
3. Do you agree or disagree that these words confirm Point1a? If you disagree, please explain why.
Abraham identifies two moral or prescriptive classes of persons in v. 23:
4. Do you agree or disagree that the terms righteous and unrighteous are morally or prescriptively evaluative terms? If not, please provide arguments for your denial.
4. Do you agree or disagree that the terms righteous and unrighteous are morally or prescriptively evaluative terms? If not, please provide arguments for your denial.
No it isn't.
Hatred is a cognitive function.
Flesh in a literal sense has no cognitive function except to materialists.
Well they are wrong.
contrary value components in spirit or soul and the tension is resolved.
As far as I can see, comparisons of spirit/flesh as true and false components in essence can be appropriately read into all verses in which this contradistinction is made in the Bible without contradiction.
This is amusing, have to give you a point for zeal. The text this refers to was simply an observation, not a proposition. Fallacies refer to arguments.
representational
Again with the liar accusation?
Back pedal all you want. You lied. Own it.
I really admire your gnawing and ripping of my posts to find any little thing you can carp on. Very Christlike.
And my experience is that when someone is making crap up as they go, they talk in extremely vague or large words, hide snipes inside long paragraphs of text, and chide others for breaking their 25 point paragraph down into the individual points.
Presumably these folks think that if they can't dazzle with knowledge, baffle with 30 sentence paragraphs full of bull snot.
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