Jabón
From Kristos Vocabulary Booster
Spanish
Noun
jabón m jabones plural
Sorry a typo below.
"Gary McNees"
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> "Bart Goddard"
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> > gkmcnees@comcast.net wrote:
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> > > I still do not agree. On the one hand some Calvinists state the
> > > man is RESPONSIBLE for his actions, but on the other hand,
> > > they also believe that God causes all his actions.
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> > This is not a logical contradiction. You're using an
> > axiom which says "A being can responsible only if he has
> > freedom." I don't agree that the axiom is a good one.
> > I can't think of any reason why it ought to be true, and
> > I can think of several examples of a person who doesn't
> > have control but are still considered to be responsible.
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> We've been through this before, to no avail.
> I find an easy way to understand the fact that God knows all,
> with our power of free will to emphasize the difference between
> "could" and "would."
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> In any given situation, where we choose freely to choose A
> or B, we "could" have chosen the other, but we "would" not
> choose the other.
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> Thus in the case of Judas, Judas COULD have chosen to
> not sin and betray Christ, but God knew that Judas would
> not do so.
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> I believe I am getting a better handle on how God's knowledge
> and man's free will, or contingent events, are not contradictory.
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> Time only exists in the mind. It does not subsist, nor is it an
> accident of anything that subsists.
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> Time does not exist for God. God knows all things past, present,
> and future.
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> He knows that the next letter I type will after the previous I is
> going to be an "t."
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> But since time is not ontological, but merely exists in the mind,
> there is no problem with God knowing what I do next, and me
> being the cause of that action.
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> But He did not cause me to type it in the sense
> of "primary" causation.
But He did cause me to type it in the sense
of "primary" causation.
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Gary
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