Jordan Osier

A senior software engineer in a Master of Divinity program who is aspiring to be a good man, a philosopher theologian, and a creator of cool things.

[Jordan Osier @TheologyInMind]

@AaronFugues @HansFiene People put infant children in swim classes. The bradycardic response is a natural reflex that helps infants hold their breath when submerged. I’m not a doctor or expert in this area, but it doesn’t seem like infant baptism with immersion is super dangerous in reality.

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@iam_shwa If you drop OSAS, it does feel that both sides share salvation by grace through faith with just different means by which one remains in faith. If I understand RC correctly, true intent of the heart covers inaccessibility of normative means of grace.

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@Exodus15_11 @owenthcarey The use of the term “Trinity” goes WAY back before Reformed theology.

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@Metaphysicmike Trinitarians would counter that the doctrine is foundational to the Christian life. Salvation is possible because God gave (Christ) and gives (Spirit) Himself for us.

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@C2Antiquity Whether that means is biblical hermeneutics, patristics, conciliar hermeneutics, magisterium, or institutionally bounded phronema… that feels like the more interesting debate.

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@C2Antiquity You can have an objectively correct interpretation of Scripture while personally fallible. A pillar can just hold up a text as truth for all to see. To avoid nuda scriptura, Prots might also posit the pillar also passes down materially sufficient means to understand it.

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@ryanalanstanley I apologize if you didn’t use AI to write the article. If that’s the case, then be aware that the style you’re using can come across that way and does trigger at least one AI detector.

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@ryanalanstanley Gavin’s opposition to EO exclusivity wasn’t the focus of the discussion. It was about its historical continuity. This article feels like you fed the transcript into AI and got a critique that characterizes ecclesiology differences as “smuggling things in”.

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@ryanalanstanley The video did seem to solidify EO exclusivism with Fr. SDY giving useful nuance that explains the diversity EO rhetoric. So it makes sense that the end of the discussion started to lay out the table for further debate on who has the better ecclesiology.

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@MarcoFoster_ @jamestalarico @joerogan The Didache would like to differ.

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@DrJayRichards @crwiley1962 “They do not solve problems.”

OpenAI’s general reasoning model just disproved the 80-year-old Erdős unit distance conjecture.

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@Jason I’m in.

[ColonelTowner-Watkins @ColonelTowner]

Man created the aircraft…God created the pilot.

One is replaceable, the other is not.

We prioritize accordingly.

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@crwiley1962 Yep. The new age will require us to get way more crisp on theological anthropology, the Imago Dei, and, more broadly, a cross-disciplinary “theology of mind”. My vote is to call that specialization, “Noetology”.

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@DrFrankTurek Classic theodicy I grew up with. I no longer think libertarian free will is coherent, so I now lean towards a “greater good” theodicy. Gen. 5:20

But I think a compatibilist could genuinely say what you posted, Dr. Turek, yet have a much different perspective on the mechanics.

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@Jarodxu7 happycapy 🚀

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@5solas My favorite analogy so far is person (Father), reflection/communication (Son), and reception/perception (Spirit). The Trinity as the self-communication of the divine essence.

Drawing from Augustine, Anselm, and Rahner.

* waiting for the modalism charge *

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That creation is modally necessary but asymmetrically dependent.

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