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@richbarcellos Marcellus, as in, the heretic who developed his own version of modalism (“and his kingdom will have no end” in the creed of 381 being written to reject his teachings).

So you’re saying your exegetical method was invented by a heretic 300 years after the ascension of Christ?

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@dhacker29 As in, literal dogs? Looks like the 18th century church faced strange problems. 😛

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@NamorPB Strong simplicity is basically an attempt to solve a problem that doesn’t exist.

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@NamorPB Makes sense. I think that this strong simplicity nonsense stems from wrongly considering attributes to be parts in the first place. God’s attributes are descriptions of the one God, each stating something true of him. They aren’t little objects that come together to form him.

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@NamorPB @ReformedAuthor Hey @NamorPB I have a question if you don’t mind. I gather that you affirm a certain version of simplicity while rejecting another. For my own clarity, what exactly are you affirming when you say that God is simple? And exactly which propositions that others affirm do you reject?

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@SteveMeisterVDM How so? Defining an object as “a person or thing to which a specified action or feeling is directed”, how are three hypostases (i.e. 3 real individual entities) who receive worship not three objects of worship?

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@NamorPB @darknytPB …T?

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@NamorPB Thanks

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@sheilagregoire @CovenantReform2 Did DW actually endorse any of that?

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@PatrologyVotary As for him referring to a couple of Greek words like he does, that honestly doesn’t prove much. I’ve seen many preachers with little to no greek do similar thing in their sermons - in fact I’ve done the same in my own. 😛

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@PatrologyVotary Honestly this rather seems to prove that he really *wasn’t* able to engage the Greek. Notice that his textual criticism of Phil 3:3 is actually wrong. Perhaps someone he trusted had told him that all the Greek manuscripts contained his preferred reading, and he believed them.

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@SteveMeisterVDM @adividu Huh?

“To put it in terms of the cross, who resurrects Jesus if God himself dies? The thought of a divine fellow-sufferer gives a short-lived comfort.”

Sounds Nestorian. Jesus IS God. And He himself suffered and died on the cross (in the form of a servant / in the flesh etc).

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@puritanreformed @1689Broadcast But they aren’t even Thomists. 😛

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@SteveMeisterVDM Would very much appreciate if you could help clear this up for me!

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@SteveMeisterVDM “…But the triune God is completely unified”