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Vocalization and Genesis 1:1

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I asked a question over at T-blog and someone gave a nice response on an issue regarding Genesis 1:1-2. Here was my question: Doesn’t the vocalization of the Hebrew of Genesis 1:1 being בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית and not לָרֵאשִׁ֣ית give more credence to it being “When God began”? JeremiahZ9 responded: The short answer is no. I wish scholars would be a bit more careful and honest. Reshit is a noun whose semantic range is quite often inherently definite. When you are talking about “a beginning” it is always “the beginning” of something. In fact, reshit only occurs vocalized with an article once … Continue reading Vocalization and Genesis 1:1

Divine Timelessness, Doctrine of God, Impassibility, logic, Metaphysics, Paul Helm, philosophy, theologyLeave a comment

Is “Timeless” Divine Action Coherent?

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This was a Paper written by Dr. Michael Czapkay Sudduth. I retrieved it from the Wayback machine and have reproduced it here. From: Philosophy of Religion Paper (May 14, 1994) Among the objections to the classical account of God’s eternality (according to which divine eternality is construed as timelessness or supratemporality) is that such a Being, a being who lacks all temporal location and extension, could not plausibly be viewed as an agent–could not coherently be thought of as bringing about various states of affairs, whether it be the bringing about the universe itself or any event within it. The … Continue reading Is “Timeless” Divine Action Coherent?

Articles, Calvinism, Divine Timelessness, Doctrine of God, logic, Metaphysics, Paul Helm, philosophy, theologyLeave a comment

Sudduth- Eternal Now

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This was a Paper written by Dr. Michael Czapkay Sudduth. I retrieved it from the wayback machine and have reproduced it here. From: Oxford Tutorial Paper, February 16, 1994 In the present paper I want to consider whether, or to what extent, the theory of divine timelessness in the classical theist tradition resolves the apparent conflict between God’s omniscience and the future free actions of human agents. Simply put: Is divine foreknowledge compatible with human freedom, if it is assumed that God is a timeless being? After setting forth the prima facie incompatibility problem based on a libertarian view of … Continue reading Sudduth- Eternal Now

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Matthew 16 and the Papacy

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The most famous prooftext for the Papacy is Matthew 16: 13 Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, He was asking His disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” 14 And they said, “Some say John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; but still others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.” 15 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” 16 Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” 17 And Jesus said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did … Continue reading Matthew 16 and the Papacy