tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post6237901925688011177..comments2024-03-17T08:25:33.806+00:00Comments on Thoughts of Francis Turretin: Unloading 35 Loaded Questions for "Bible Christians" 28/35Turretinfanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01802277110253897379noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-19673021863830223032010-02-13T16:33:21.234+00:002010-02-13T16:33:21.234+00:00"We do know and its simple – God set up a chu..."We do know and its simple – God set up a church to teach the gospel and it doesn’t require the bible be in the hands of every yahoo that thinks he’s got the HS in the palm of his hands."<br /><br />That sounds like your church 500 years ago. Your own church today claims, however:<br /><br />CCC133 The Church "forcefully and specifically exhorts all the Christian faithful. . . to Turretinfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01802277110253897379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-14805528987461342142010-02-12T23:41:25.847+00:002010-02-12T23:41:25.847+00:00You've badly misunderstood the answer. The ans...You've badly misunderstood the answer. The answer is that we don't know why God permitted the Scriptures to be transmitted by handwriting (though we could speculate). The answer is not that we don't know why SS is true.<br /><br />We do know and its simple – God set up a church to teach the gospel and it doesn’t require the bible be in the hands of every yahoo that thinks he’s got thejohn martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06660610295915450085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-77671480965211106322010-02-11T20:33:41.410+00:002010-02-11T20:33:41.410+00:00"So we don’t know why SS is true, even though..."So we don’t know why SS is true, even though it requires us to believe millions of Christians lived out Christianity without access to the bible or the ability to read. Its far more likely that SS is false and that’s why God hasn’t told us its true."<br /><br />You've badly misunderstood the answer. The answer is that we don't know why God permitted the Scriptures to be Turretinfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01802277110253897379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-71523766859753943102010-02-11T07:30:10.486+00:002010-02-11T07:30:10.486+00:002) But more seriously, we don't know God's...2) But more seriously, we don't know God's exact reason, he hasn't told us.”<br /><br />So we don’t know why SS is true, even though it requires us to believe millions of Christians lived out Christianity without access to the bible or the ability to read. Its far more likely that SS is false and that’s why God hasn’t told us its true.<br /><br />”3) One possible reason is that one&#john martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06660610295915450085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-85302678655090521782010-02-08T13:44:07.237+00:002010-02-08T13:44:07.237+00:00I accidently posted the Summa link twice. This wa...I accidently posted the Summa link twice. This was supposed to be the second address (sorry):<br />http://bedejournal.blogspot.com/2010/01/dancing-with-angels.htmlAlphonsusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-27765478401182968292010-02-08T13:42:34.569+00:002010-02-08T13:42:34.569+00:00"And still no one has satisfactorily answered..."And still no one has satisfactorily answered the question about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin."<br /><br />Aquinas took a stab at a related question. The answer to the pin question depends on how many "spaces" there are on a pin's head. ;)<br />http://www.newadvent.org/summa/1052.htm#article3<br /><br />Here's more on the pin question. Enjoy.<br />Alphonsusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-7383933621413125032010-02-06T22:40:07.003+00:002010-02-06T22:40:07.003+00:00CD,
such a fool that I am, I will tell you just ...CD,<br /><br />such a fool that I am, I will tell you just how many that "number" of Angels is. It is exactly as many Angels as God wants dancing on the head of a pin!<br /><br />"zero"!<br /><br />Angels have better things assigned to them to do than dancing on the head of a pin:::><br /><br />Heb 1:13 And to which of the angels has he ever said, "Sit at my right Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-49469528543905939952010-02-06T22:25:14.550+00:002010-02-06T22:25:14.550+00:00Well, somebody wanted us to fly cause I will be fl...Well, somebody wanted us to fly cause I will be flying back to Nashville in a few weeks! :)<br /><br />There we go again about the secrets of God.<br /><br />There are no secrets of God to His Elect. It's the nonelects and the not yet elects that seem to miss that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God.<br /><br />It was a well hid secret from me until God on July 21st, 1975 had me Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-58658717133919787682010-02-06T17:07:47.405+00:002010-02-06T17:07:47.405+00:00I'd say we do know the reason: the printing pr...I'd say we do know the reason: the printing press would have allowed for centralized control of the Bible. Per Dr. White, it is the wide spread copying of the Bible by the common man that prevents this type of centralization and, therefore, corruption. With the early invention of the printing press, the Muslims and Liberals (and the DaVinci Code nuts) could THEN actually have a reasonable David Betznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-37159878920635749202010-02-06T14:35:10.710+00:002010-02-06T14:35:10.710+00:00Exactly!Exactly!Turretinfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01802277110253897379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-31173081920884776452010-02-06T14:32:30.409+00:002010-02-06T14:32:30.409+00:00If Jesus intended for Christianity to be an exclus...If Jesus intended for Christianity to be an exclusive religion why does he allow other religions?<br /><br />And still no one has satisfactorily answered the question about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.<br /><br />In Christ,<br />CDCoram Deohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03504564435400500996noreply@blogger.com