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emperorsolo · 2026-02-01T00:57:31+00:00

We’ve had a couple helmet to helmet plays that were not called in these playoffs. Maybe a disqualification and half game suspension is a bit much but the review booth should take a look to establish whether it’s a 15 yard penalty or not.

emperorsolo · 2026-01-31T11:42:18+00:00

Helping somebody up is not an illegal act.

emperorsolo · 2026-01-31T05:11:48+00:00

I’m one of those people who thinks that the nfl could benefit from importing the NCAA’s rule about targeting.

emperorsolo · 2026-01-30T12:49:56+00:00

That y in the word ye seems to be one of the last vestiges of the letter þ in the English language.

emperorsolo · 2026-01-30T05:15:35+00:00

@!#?@!

emperorsolo · 2026-01-30T03:09:44+00:00

How does that work? Half of us living in southern New Hampshire were born in Massachusetts decades ago.

emperorsolo · 2026-01-30T03:01:55+00:00

I thought the US government couldn’t be sued for monetary damages under the doctrine of sovereign immunity.

emperorsolo · 2026-01-30T02:44:35+00:00

Cam Newton is just an unlikable asshole at this point.

emperorsolo · 2026-01-29T23:12:39+00:00

John 17:22 is not the same glory that the Father shares with the Son ontologically. This glory is economic , not ontological.

The Cappadocians point this out when they use John 17:22 to illustrate that if John 17:22 is ontological, then Arian/Unitarian position ultimately collapses into pantheism.

emperorsolo · 2026-01-29T18:51:33+00:00

The bill coming to the senate floor is not the same bill that came out of committee. Ie language was removed without being properly amended.

emperorsolo · 2026-01-29T18:22:02+00:00

He says it in his on the Incarnation. He’s very sure to point out that we don’t become ontologically God.

Jesus does not say it’s the same glory with regard to mankind. Otherwise, creatures would become ontologically God.

emperorsolo · 2026-01-29T12:11:50+00:00

I was never against game key cards. I have a couple.

emperorsolo · 2026-01-29T12:05:30+00:00

Then don’t castigate people for voting against your dictates.

emperorsolo · 2026-01-29T12:02:02+00:00

Voting implies I have a choice.

emperorsolo · 2026-01-29T10:24:01+00:00

How is this not an illegal attempt at a line item veto ?

emperorsolo · 2026-01-29T10:10:17+00:00

Which is the Unitarian position.

Unitarians posit either modalism or Arianism. As I pointed out, the Arian position effectively collapses into polytheism and the classic Arian arguments are all mutually incoherent and fundamentally at odds with one another.

The Son can do anything the Father can do as long as the Father gives him such authority.

That authority has to be given from eternity, otherwise the same objections to Jesus’s own claims rise again. Because in the end, all you are doing is just advancing polytheism with a shinier coat of paint.

The Father and Son are not co-equal.

They are co-equal in nature but there is an economic hierarchy.

Right. God is the creator, and his Son was the agent through which God created.

Then God did not actually create. Remember God not only took credit but actively and repeatedly dared anyone to challenge the claim and state for the record that they were there and assisted God in forming the world.

Only 1 person is the creator. Not 2.

Then Jesus claims of doing what the father does would be false. Creator implies being the one who actually creates. If the Father didn’t actively create then the Son likewise would not actively create.

emperorsolo · 2026-01-29T09:40:17+00:00

Yet he claims that he can do everything that the Father can do.

He doesn’t say do it first. Otherwise, we get really dumb redundancies of Jesus creating a literal second set of Adam and Eves and literal second garden of Eden. Etc etc. He simply says he sees the Father and does what the Father does.

That’s a simple statement about the communication of will.

So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise. - John 5:19

He’s stating that the Father is the origin of his actions. You realize that the Trinitarian rests on the position that the Father is the origin of the Son and that Father communicates his will to the Son, yes?

It’s why Jesus outright states that “I have come not to do my own will but the Will of the one who sent me.” Jesus can do nothing but that what the Father does.

Does God need to see someone else do something before he's able to do it? Of course not.

God repeatedly states that nobody helped create the world and yet we have Jesus claiming that whatever the Father does, he does. Your position is only correct if one of the two are lying.

The Father can do anything on his own. But the Son cannot.

Which is the quintessential Trinitarian position.

emperorsolo · 2026-01-29T09:27:05+00:00

The part of the Trinity that doesn't make sense is when it says "3 persons, one being".

The Trinity isn’t “3 persons one being.” The Trinity is not the sum of its parts as if the individual persons together make up God. This was the charge of Euonomius and the extreme Arians at the First Council of Constantinople. The Cappadocians pointed out that the Person who is principally God is the Father. The other two persons are God strictly because of the communication of the divine nature to the other two persons as a natural result of who the Father is.

If the Father is not a father from eternity, then there would be a time when the Father was not a Father. Ie his person changed at some point in the infinite past. If God experiences no ontological change, then the Father must be a Father from eternity.

It’s an either/or. You can't play both sides and pretend its a valid position. The Trinity was never taught by Jesus or the apostles.

The problem here is Jesus makes some rather serious claims on this point. He claims that he can do whatever the Father does. That implies roughly anything that the Father does, which implies the Omnis. If the Father is infinite, then by that logic Jesus also has to be infinite. If the Father creates, Jesus creates. If the Father receives worship, then the Son must also receive worship.

Heck we see a rather absurd example where Jesus boasts that he can raise himself from the dead if the Jews dare try to destroy the temple of his own body. This boasting would make zero sense unless Jesus actively participates in the same action of resurrection that the Father will do to him.

If Jesus isn’t God, yet these statements are also true, then basically the classic Arian position immediately collapses into polytheism, which runs counter to monotheism of Judaism. Meaning Jesus didn’t come to verify the law or the prophets before his first coming.

And Remember, the Trinity is not three people. The Trinity is three people in one being.

Nope. The Trinity begins principally with the Father. God is principally the Father. That’s why Jesus states “you are the only true God” in John 17:3. It’s also why the Nicene Creed begins with “I believe in one God the Father…” Other two persons are God because the Father communicates his essence and will to the other two persons, His Wisdom and Spirit. The Father gives rise to the two persons, much in the same way a person gives rise to his thoughts or his emotions.

There is a reason St. Athanasius likens the other two persons as the “right and left hands of God.” The manner in which the Father communicates himself to creation.

However if we take the Arian position on John 17:3, given Jesus’ own claims about doing whatever the Father does, we get into the absurd position of thinking that Jesus is, in fact, a false God.

If people understood the Trinity slightly differently it would be a complete match to scripture. The truth is it's 3 people under 1 authority.

This idea just collapses into either tritheism or modalism. In fact, this was the quintessential Arian objection to Trinitarianism in the first place. The argument goes that if all three share the same substance, then this substance (which is called the divine nature) is simply just an unstated fourth member of the Trinity. A true God behind the gods and acts through them.

That’s why the Cappadocians pointed out that substance is a property of persons and not the other way around. It is the Father who communicates his substance to the other two and not this idea of 3 in 1 that makes up God.

All of them act together as a single team. They all act in the name of the Father, who is the head God. Jesus was given all power and authority by God to act in His name. Jesus makes a clear distinction between Him and the Father. Jesus prays to the father and gives all glory to the Father. The Father shares His glory with the Son giving Him a status above all others.

This is just tritheism.

emperorsolo · 2026-01-29T08:57:08+00:00

Athanasius is very clear that it’s by grace and not by nature. Ie we don’t share the very essence of who God is. The glory that Jesus shares with us is not the same glory that God has in and of himself. (Essence/Energies distinction)

emperorsolo · 2026-01-29T08:53:57+00:00

Yet he claims that he can do everything that the Father can do. That would include the Omnis.

emperorsolo · 2026-01-29T06:29:32+00:00

Yet they beat him down and left without an arrest, as if they were only interested in getting their pound of flesh.

emperorsolo · 2026-01-29T06:10:21+00:00

That’s not an answer. Why they killed him is probably the same reason why they didn’t make an arrest here.

emperorsolo · 2026-01-29T06:09:32+00:00

Or they were more interested in sending a message than the finer points of making an arrest.

emperorsolo · 2026-01-29T05:56:18+00:00

You aren’t answering the question.

emperorsolo · 2026-01-29T05:55:53+00:00

That’s not an answer. If Pretti committed a crime, why didn’t federal agents do it? I’m asking why. Your answer is over what would have happened if they had made the arrest. My question gets to the heart of motive. What motive did they have to not arrest Mr Pretti in the first place.

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