(January 27, 2016 at 5:41 pm)orangebox21 Wrote: Yes, of course a hammer and glue are not self-referencing, they don't have a self. Nor do they [independently] "do a job" they are used to do the job for which their creator made them. They were created for a purpose. Wait, this is getting eerily familiar.....
Yes, except we don't know what that ultimate purpose for sin is, apart from using it to punish or not punish us. Going back to the hammer analogy, the purpose is either:
- To showcase the hammer and/or to show when it's not being used, or
- Some unstated purpose. Maybe there is some other purpose analogous to "hold stuff together", but I haven't heard what that is, yet.
(January 27, 2016 at 5:41 pm)orangebox21 Wrote: I sense that our conversation may be growing to a close. I hope that isn't the case [maybe you had little time to respond], but either way I have thoroughly enjoyed our conversation.
Yeah, I was getting that impression. We've changed topic pages ago from the OP, and this has mostly been you justifying things that don't make sense to me with other things that don't make sense, and me applying terms too broadly in some cases.
