Kelvin Smith's Untraveled Road

Virtual photographic walking tour of Nevada

Kelvin Smith's Untraveled Road

Virtual photographic walking tour of Nevada

Mapathon for Nevada

Road, city street other maps of the state and its localities.

Mapathon for Nevada

Road, city street other maps of the state and its localities.

Photography ROW

Photograph gallery by professional photographer Richard Wilkins of Las Vegas. Includes a variety of subjects including nature, events and state attractions.

Photography ROW

Photograph gallery by professional photographer Richard Wilkins of Las Vegas. Includes a variety of subjects including nature, events and state attractions.

Southern Nevada and Las Vegas: History in Maps

A selection from the historic map collection at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Southern Nevada and Las Vegas: History in Maps

A selection from the historic map collection at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

gkmcnees@comcast.net wrote:

>> > After all, what Christ said in Luke 10 is very easy to understand.
>> > It is quite hard for many to accept, because it enunciates facts
>> > which many refuse to believe.
>> >
>> > 1) God knows what one would do under different conditions.
>>
>> Which doesn't imply any freedom. Just the opposite, in fact:
>> People's wills are bound by these "conditions" they find
>> themselves "under".
>
> Another assertion. Prove it. That is, prove that they would
> not have freely willed it.

Your verse says that the Sidionese are unrepentant. And they
will remain unrepentant until/unless God takes action, in
which case they will become repentant. So their "choice
for Jesus" is entirely dependent upon God's action. These
people aren't free to decide one way or the other. If
God decides He wants them to believe, then He does
miracles there. If not, He refrains.


>> > 2) The unregenerate would repent under some conditions.
>>
>> And if your God, Who says "What more could I do", doesn't
>> provide these conditions, is He lying or just a monster?
>
> More unfounded "logic?" NO.
>
> God can't do the exact same miracles everywhere.

Why not? You said He could do anything "possible". If
it's "possible" to change water into wine in Canaan, then
why isn't it "possible" to do it in Sidon?



> There are obviously some that just
> will not repent.

So they don't have free will. Their wills are bound
by Satan and they can't repent.


> Glad to see you don't answer the argument at all, no attempt.
> I wonder why?

You wonder why you don't see the answer, I guess is what you mean.


> You know, the argument that Christ used; that He was upbraiding
> them because they would not repent, when others would have
> repented.

"Would" is subjunctive for "will". They _will_ not repent.
What's wrong with their wills? Answer: They are not free.

Bart

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(~) Responding in Faith


Readings for September 25, 2005

Ezekiel 18:1-4, 25-32
Psalm 25:1-9
Philippians 2:1-13
Matthew 21:23-32

Responding in Faith

Paul wrote the letter to the believers in Philippi when he was in prison.
The letter is often described as a letter about Christian joy. While it is
true that the letter has much to say about that virtue, it also talks
about what it means to be citizens of heaven while living here on earth.
Citizenship was an important indicati