@postnuance Prayers for Rosie and for all of your family. We have never met, but you have been a blessing to me in your translation work. May God bless with health and answers and tangible, long-lasting answers to prayer in ways that only He can.
@ReallyOldLife Your posts (fruit) have provided clarity on "I had never heard of the press. I provide a service to others who haven't heard.
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@postnuance "We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us."
Make sure you have a good grasp of logic.
It is essential to true theology, right reasoning, and clear thinking.
This is what Augustine wrote:
"And yet the validity of logical sequences is not a thing devised by men, but is observed and noted by them that they may be able to learn and teach it; for it exists eternally in the reason of things, and has its origin with God.
For as the man who narrates the order of events does not himself create that order; and as he who describes the situations of places, or the natures of animals, or roots, or minerals, does not describe arrangements of man; and as he who points out the stars and their movements does not point out anything that he himself or any other man has ordained.
In the same way, he who says, When the consequent is false, the antecedent must also be false, says what is most true; but he does not himself make it so, he only points out that it is so.
And it is upon this rule that the reasoning I have quoted from the Apostle Paul proceeds. For the antecedent is, There is no resurrection of the dead,— the position taken up by those whose error the apostle wished to overthrow.
Next, from this antecedent, the assertion, viz., that there is no resurrection of the dead, the necessary consequence is, Then Christ is not risen.
But this consequence is false, for Christ has risen; therefore the antecedent is also false. But the antecedent is, that there is no resurrection of the dead.
We conclude, therefore, that there is a resurrection of the dead.
Now all this is briefly expressed thus:
- If there is no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen.
- But Christ is risen.
- Therefore there is a resurrection of the dead.
This rule, then, that when the consequent is removed, the antecedent must also be removed, is not made by man, but only pointed out by him. And this rule has reference to the validity of the reasoning, not to the truth of the statements."
Augustine
On Christian Doctrine
Book 2
Chapter 32
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