Don Fabrizio

[Don Fabrizio @Gattop4rdo]

quando chegarás a saber que seria bom se pudesses reter na memória a tua vida, até mesmo as partes que te possam repugnar?"

italo svevo, a consciência de zeno, trad. ivo barroso

[Don Fabrizio @Gattop4rdo]

@shelbystardust For the question ‘If A, then why B?’ to make sense, you must first show that there is an incompatibility between A and B.

What does the geographic distribution of the major religions have to do with their truth?

[Don Fabrizio @Gattop4rdo]

@julienries13 @vinedodeltexto By all means, say it.

[john milbank @johnmilbank3]

Problems with the Christian Right are things like embrace of nationalism, semi-racism, ultra-capitalism, anti-ecologism, over-disciplinary pedagogy and judicial punishment as revenge. *Not* opposing gay marriage and the trans cult and being pro family. That’s just Christian.

[Don Fabrizio @Gattop4rdo]

@Tendenc95 @TDisputations @needGod_net Suppose I’m a little slow and didn’t understand what you meant. Now, since you are an honest debater who surely wants to be understood, please answer in a way that even I can understand: Can God contradict Himself and go back on His word?

[Don Fabrizio @Gattop4rdo]

@Tendenc95 @TDisputations @needGod_net That doesn't answer it because I didn't ask whether God is subject to man's will (we both agree that He isn't, at least in an ultimate sense), but rather whether He is bound by His own decrees. Can God contradict Himself and go back on His word? Yes or no?

[Don Fabrizio @Gattop4rdo]

@Tendenc95 @TDisputations @needGod_net I'll ask it again. Is God bound by his own decrees or He can ignore them e go back on His word?

[Don Fabrizio @Gattop4rdo]

@Tendenc95 @TDisputations @needGod_net You really don't want to answer, huh? I wonder why that is.

[Don Fabrizio @Gattop4rdo]

@Tendenc95 @TDisputations @needGod_net I don't deny anything you said. But I asked you if God is bound by *his own* decrees, and you haven't answered.

[Don Fabrizio @Gattop4rdo]

@Tendenc95 @TDisputations @needGod_net Please state your position clearly. Do you dispute that God is bound by his decrees and cannot go back on his word?

[Don Fabrizio @Gattop4rdo]

@Tendenc95 @TDisputations @needGod_net Nice way of not enganing with any of the texts. Well, anyone can read them and see what they say.

[Don Fabrizio @Gattop4rdo]

@Tendenc95 @TDisputations @needGod_net That being said, if you want biblical proof see Hebrews 6:17-18, Titus 1:2, 2 Timothy 2:13, Numbers 23:19, or Psalm 89:34-35.

[Don Fabrizio @Gattop4rdo]

@Tendenc95 @TDisputations @needGod_net I answered your question by showing you don't need to quote Scripture to prove that God is bound by the rules that He has set, since that is a precondition of faith in Scripture itself. How can one believe in the word of God without assuming that God will keep his word? +

[Don Fabrizio @Gattop4rdo]

@Tendenc95 @TDisputations @needGod_net Still, if you want biblical proof, see Hebrews 6:17-18, Titus 1:2, 2 Timothy 2:13, Numbers 23:19, among others.

[Don Fabrizio @Gattop4rdo]

@Tendenc95 @TDisputations @needGod_net Of course you don't believe that. You believe that God is bound *at least* by his own word, since that is the basis of any faith whatsoever.

[Don Fabrizio @Gattop4rdo]

@Tendenc95 @TDisputations @needGod_net Do you believe that you can lose your salvation after you get to heaven?

[Don Fabrizio @Gattop4rdo]

@Tendenc95 @TDisputations @needGod_net God is only limited by rules that He himself has set. This really isn't hard to understand, but you might want to read about the antecedent and consequent will of God.

[Don Fabrizio @Gattop4rdo]

@Tendenc95 @TDisputations @needGod_net What my will affects is myself, since I can either accept or reject God's gift of salvation.

[Don Fabrizio @Gattop4rdo]

@Tendenc95 @TDisputations @needGod_net “Your will not affect God.”

Of course it won't. God's will is that everyone should be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth. That never changes.

As St. Anthony said, “To say that God turns away from the wicked is like saying that the sun hides from the blind.”

[Don Fabrizio @Gattop4rdo]

@Tendenc95 @TDisputations @needGod_net “My God” is just as capable as yours—but He is incomparably more just, since He hasn't decreed that some people will certainly be saved and some will certainly be damned regardless of their own free choice.

[Don Fabrizio @Gattop4rdo]

@Tendenc95 @TDisputations @needGod_net Are you dense? I said that free will is given by God. We have free will, and are thus capable of rejecting his grace, *because* of God's will. +