The Prophetic Presbyterian & His Narrow Way

GOD is a triune personal spirit who, as to essence, is infinite, eternal, & unchangeable, & whose attributes are being (GOD is autotheos; God is a se), wisdom, power, justice, holiness, goodness, & truth. Numbers exist  independently  of the human mind.  Every integer is  unique (aseity)  Each number exists both  independently  &  perichoretically No two integers (numbers) express the exact same numerical value at the same time in the same way.  Every number is infinitely compossible by an infinite set of previous integer (by addition) & via substraction of all subsequent numbers one from the other before it (ie 5 - 2 ‎ = 3 & 1 + 2 also = 3) The intervening set of integers between 1, 2, 3 are required in order for those 3 numbers to exist.   This intervening set of integers between 1, 2, & 3 make these 3 integers inescapably perichoretic.    Each & every number “contains” the integers preced...

This is what happens when the Bible is used as prooftext material & not exposited.   Let Luke 17 speak & let John 18 speak separately & then harmonize them.  Luke 17: The Pharisees ask about when the kingdom of God would come.  This bundles together 2 propositions:  The belief of some like the Zealots perhaps that God would end Rome’s oppression via worldly means like He had done 150 years earlier, & the Resurrection itself, a Pharisaic belief that all things would be made new at the end of the age. Yeshua gives a 2fold answer that strikes a via media between these 2 propositions.   On the one hand, a time is coming when the nation & the world will long for the Son of Man to appear.  They will look here & there & point to any number of possible deliverers.  Do not run off after them.   On the other hand, For the Son of Man in his day[d] will be like the lightning, which flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the...

Objection:  Jesus never condemned slavery!  Why does God need slavery?  Reply: God needing slavery & allowing it because He refuses to infantize us aren’t convertible propositions.   What does the Sermon On the Mount teach?   Via the 3 Uses (Individual, Ecclesiastical, Governmental)…  It teaches we are not to murder, & we are not even “Raca” them with denigrating language like we find in the Antebellum South all the way to the present day.  (Matt. 5:21 - 22) It teaches that we are to replicate & restore to communities we have historically failed.  If the jackbooted Roman soldier (the person you regard as property or long ago would have) demands or otherwise requests that you release him from bondage, we are to release him from bondage (replicate) & make reparations to them (restore). (Matt. 5:41 - 48) It teaches we are to make provision for food, clean water, & clothing (shelter). the necessities of life, individually & com...

We ought to pay close attention to what’s happening in Washington DC.   The Spirit of Antichrist at work in the churches is now at work in Government.  That is to say there are startling parallels between what individuals caught up in the destruction of their faith do & Elon Musk’s “algorithm.” From the Christian Post :  1. Question every requirement “Each should come with the name of the person who made it. You should never accept that a requirement came from a department ... Then you should question it, no matter how smart that person is. Requirements from smart people are the most dangerous, because people are less likely to question them. Always do so, even if the requirement came from me [Elon]. Then make the requirements less dumb.” Adults who deconstruct question authority.  There’s a right way & a wrong way to do that.  You can do so using the Bible correctly exegeted, exposited, understood, & applied, or you can reject the Scriptures ...

  Objection:     Genesis 1:27 :   So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. God created Adam male & Eve female.    This is the created ontology of all people, insofar as Adam & Eve represent us all.    Since God created them male & female, this text serves as a prooftext for heteronormativity.  The disputant then imports this into the text of Romans 1:26 - 27 on the premise that what Genesis 1:27 says about the created anatomical/physiological &/or psychological state of Adam & Eve, the natural (meaning physical &/or psychological) state is what Romans 1:26 - 27 is referencing.   The same disputant reads my own statement about the meaning of “natural” & “unnatural” as a reference to the **moral** not the **physiological/anatomical/psychological order & accuses me of committing an illicit totality transfer.  By way of reply: ...

Does the Bible teach us the principles of sound reasoning?       Yes, it most certainly does.   Here are some examples… 5 -  Category Mistake/Error  - A category mistake involves the conflation of the properties of two separate domains.  When defenders of the tradition-bound view depart from Romans 1:18 - 32 in order to import Genesis into the text, they inevitably conflate God’s decretal will (a descriptive domain) & God’s moral will (a prescriptive domain).  By way of reply to that maneuver…   First, Paul is writing an inerrant & infallible commentary on Leviticus 18.  Leviticus 18 & Romans 1:18 - 32.   They even follow the same outline both generally & particularly.  Why would you run to Genesis to interpret Romans if Romans is commenting on Leviticus?  It isn’t enough to read “sakab” in Leviticus as “to lie down & have sex,” at issue is the thought & purpose of the behavior in 18:22.  Words...

Does the Bible teach us the principles of sound reasoning?       Yes, it most certainly does.   Here are some examples… 4 -  Special Pleading   - At its heart, Special Pleading is just plain hypocrisy.     If a disputant doesn’t play by his/her/their own rules, then that’s hypocrisy. If a gay man appeals to his biology then Greg Koukl says (correctly), “Is-Ought fallacy!” When Greg Koukl does the same thing in the  same article , it’s baptized. The Sanhedrin’s attitude toward giving serves as a stellar example.    21  Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box,  2  and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins.  3  And he said, “Truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them.  4  For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.” The Sanhedrin’s members were notorious for trump...

Does the Bible teach us the principles of sound reasoning?       Yes, it most certainly does.   Here are some examples… 3 -  Overspecification   The disputant will place a more specific construction on a verse of Scripture than the Scripture will bear. For example, a Roman Catholic will treat any favorable reference to the NT church as a direct reference to the Roman Catholic Church. A Protestant can be guilty of this too, as when he treats any reference to the Antichrist as a direct prophecy of the papacy. Contextually, the range of meaning for “natural” is abstract & moral not physical & ontological. It cannot bear the meaning the tradition-bound view employs.  Moreover, the tradition-bound view ultimately agrees with the thinking processes of the pagans described in 1:22 - 23 not God’s testimony in 1:20.   How so?  The pagans in Romans 1:22 - 24 suppressed God’s existence, attributes, & authority in favor of their own exis...

Does the Bible teach us the principles of sound reasoning?       Yes, it most certainly does.   Here are some examples…   2 -  Vicious Circularity   - Human anatomy & physiology are raised to the status due a non-arbitrary epistemic warrant.  A non-arbitrary epistemic warrant must be necessary, reasoned, & principled.  In truth, the body is unnecessary to deduce sexual ethics. By way of contrast, God’s nature is definitionally necessary, insofar as God is a necessary being, &, since God is infinite, eternal, & unchangeable in being, wisdom, authority & power, goodness, justice, holiness,& truth, sexual ethics inhere in the mind of God.   There are no other necessary minds in which ethical principles inhere.  The Bible teaches that the role of the Created Order is to testify to God’s existence, attributes, & authority (Romans 1:20).  When we use the word “natural,” in Romans 1:27 - 28 to ref...