RE: I am an orthodox Christian, ask me a question!
August 22, 2009 at 8:05 pm
(This post was last modified: August 22, 2009 at 8:08 pm by amw79.)
(August 22, 2009 at 7:48 pm)Jon Paul Wrote:(August 22, 2009 at 7:30 pm)amw79 Wrote: Come on then JP, one more time. Succinctly explain or put forward this argument without resort to entangled definitions or theological presumptions, references, definitions and assertions. In English if you can.After hundreds of posts (253 in specific, and many from others in the thread), most of which I have spent elaborating on exactly this topic, if you still haven't gotten the idea yet, then I'm not going to waste any more time and can only reference to my 252 posts out of which at least a hundred probably deal with this.
Ha ha! Yes, I've read those 253(4 now) posts, of which the initial post was a tangled, wordy, theologically defined assertion (which you have since claimed to be "evidence"). You have subsequently spent the next 252 posts re-defining every word, idea and argument to your own ends.
I was wondering whether, since you explicitly said that "the argument from potency/actuality.....is fundamental to my understanding of God.":- you could succinctly clarify this argument - clearly you can't (or won't - giving you the benefit of the doubt).
As I said earlier on in this thread, many of the greatest ideas of all time can be expressed (and understood) in straightforward language (e.g theory of evolution by natural selection, theory of relativity, theory of special relativity, germ theory). However you seem unable to describe the basis of your beliefs in such a manner