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I actually gave you some examples of limitations of his power. He does not have the power to create a god identical to himself. He does not have the power to create a squared circle. He does not have the power to make 2+2=5. He does not have the power to deny himself. As for the limits on the...

Can God not have limits? There are plenty of things God cannot do and is thus limited. God can't deny himself. He can't sin or lie. He can't create another god just as he is. He can't create a squared-circle. God has limits.

Wow... come on people.

I hope Dr. White realizes who this "some other person" is. Might be good for you to know too. Abasciano is a NT prof at Gordon-Conwell Seminary. He wrote a good article against the arguments I have been advocating. I still disagree with him, but he is a good choice for Skandeloo since he is an...

I agree with Don above. The gospel accounts are self-authenticating as are all Scripture. None of the 4 accounts have to be written by the names ascribed to it for it to be Scripture. We only know for certain what is written in the text. And the evangelists don't write their names down for us...

John, I think we are at an impasse. I think you have misunderstood me on several key points which makes the discussion go nowhere. Like I'm not saying gennao means "caused" but that to be born implies a cause/effect sequence. In every case in 1 John, to have been born by God implies a...

Here is something, though again I'm not staking my entire argument on it. While talking about the passive voice, there is always a discussion of agency. In our 3 passages, God is always the ultimate agent (I use "agency" here even though the preposition is about the source, however the source...

Forgive me, John, but I disagree. If the quote is referring to adverbial participles, then that does not bear too much on what we are dealing with here. I have answered, just indirectly. Since the verb is passive, the participle has to be nominative so it can receive the action of the verb. If...

So what grammatical structure do you suppose he is talking about? I don't think he is addressing substantival participles but rather ones that are dependent and probably adverbial. Otherwise, there participle wouldn't have a complement. So this quote (seemingly) doesn't really address the main...

I only want to deal with this quote because the rest of the stuff we've been talking about is secondary. I think you just proved my point. My case is not that on the grammar and syntax ALONE that demands the causation I'm seeing. The main thrust of the causation comes from the idea of being...

Have you read anything by Cornelius Van Til?

I highly doubt you had to do a lot of work. A 30 credit ThD is not a lot of work. I don't even want to know what your ThM consisted of. But my guess is that it was not a post-MDiv (90 credits), thesis degree. Plus you didn't have to write a dissertation for your "doctorate". Plus the lack of...

Money is tight. It'll have to wait. Ek can mean the source and cause and means (Wallace, GGBB, p. 371). So in that way, to give birth ek theou is to say that God is the means or cause of one's birth. In that way, it is agency. Let's suppose you are correct in the indicative form where time "is...

Most place the emphasis on internal proof of the more difficult reading. I get that. I can see why a scribe might opt to change it to fit more customary theological consistent renderings. I think "God' left as it is typically refers to the Father in Paul's writings.

Since both the present and perfect tense-forms have the ongoing state as part of its aspect, then I could illustrate it like this: ~---------------->==============> Being born has the ongoing result of ongoing believing. The first line represents the perfect verb's resultant ongoing action and...

I don't think I've communicated myself clearly if you think the weight of my argument rests on the present tense of the participle. My point that you quoted was not that the tense of the participle is what is to be considered. It is the participle as it relates to the verb. Again, none of my...

Actually, I was referring to this post: He didn't even spell Slidell correctly!!! And it's a diploma mill.

I don't have this book. More of the context would be helpful. But let me give it a go regardless. Some preceding points. This has not only to do with the perfect tense but also the passive voice. The passive voice can and frequently does indicate agency (see Black's It's Still Greek to Me, p...

You can't be serious. You think this passage has to do with personal regeneration???

Slidell Seminary is hardly "formal education".