(February 8, 2013 at 4:21 pm)Stimbo Wrote: You didn't need to use a thousand words when just two would say exactly the same thing: special pleading.
can you explain how you think this is a case of special pleading?
My understanding of the term: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_pleading
would indicate that someone looking for God to accept "Y/Z" simply because they felt sincere about it when they did it When God has commanded that we do "X" is the Special pleading here. In otherwords, We have a standard "X" and the sincere Y/Z efforts would be the special pleading in this case. Or is that what you meant?
