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If God Ever Stopped Intervening In Nature....

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Dr Adequate
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08-14-2013 3:01 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by Straggler
08-13-2013 9:13 AM

Re: If God Ever Stopped Intervening In Nature....
It's hardly a new idea. For example, the catechism of the Catholic Church has this to say about it:
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With creation, God does not abandon his creatures to themselves. He not only gives them being and existence, but also, and at every moment, upholds and sustains them in being ...
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Similarly Calvin in his commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews: "All things would instantly come to nothing, were they not sustained by his power."
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06-07-2014 8:18 PM 		Reply to: Message 240 by Dogmafood
06-07-2014 7:36 PM

Re: ‘Absolut Truth’ ‘trivial’? !?!?!
What is the first predicate?
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If you are still right by the time you get to Zed then it is likely that your A was correct.
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A: "I am an elephant".
B: "I am a mammal".
Z: "I am an endotherm".
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06-07-2014 8:20 PM 		Reply to: Message 229 by faceman
06-07-2014 2:43 PM

Re: ‘Absolut Truth’ ‘trivial’? !?!?!
If truth is only objective, then we're forced to doubt the existence of the laws of logic and physics, prior to our objective perceptions of them, since we weren't always around to observe them.
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Did you mean to put "objective" in that sentence? It seems to me that it would make more sense if you'd said "subjective" instead.
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09-09-2015 10:54 AM 		Reply to: Message 614 by JRTjr01
09-08-2015 12:10 AM

Re: ‘reality’ an ‘illusion’ ???????????
This is a self-contradicting statement ...
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But you wrote it and NoNukes didn't.
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09-12-2015 12:47 PM 		Reply to: Message 621 by JRTjr01
09-12-2015 9:02 AM

Re: ‘reality’ an ‘illusion’ ???????????
I simply pared it down ...
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And completely changed its meaning.
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