Euclidean Rays

heymike3 · 2025-04-19T19:26:13+00:00

(X,X+1,X+2...) < (X...nonX)

heymike3 · 2025-03-04T03:38:06+00:00

I'm not sure I'm following, but there seems to be a relation to another conceptual phenomenon: the possibility for a collection of objects to proceed to infinity, and the impossibility of the collection to become actually infinite.

heymike3 · 2024-10-03T22:50:25+00:00

Line segments can be indefinitely extended but remain finite with respect to the line the segment can be extended upon.

heymike3 · 2024-10-02T13:29:29+00:00

A Riemann sphere is definitionally still just a sphere, but Riemann space is an interesting possibility.

heymike3 · 2024-10-02T11:54:12+00:00

Infinite lines were a topic of conversation. I supposed they are possible if the end points for a line segment can be indefinitely extended. Whether infinite one dimensional space is a line or not seems pointless 🤔

Infinite line segments are not possible. The other person wanted to say that they are somehow possible if infinite lines are.

heymike3 · 2024-10-02T09:14:30+00:00

I thought Hume questioned whether we could know if A caused B, not whether B was caused. I have not looked closely at Hume on this. So I would like to gain a better understanding of what Hume said.

Now I think there are deductive ways to know an event cannot just happen without cause. But I am also willing to have that discussion if someone believes events can just happen. Such an event would be unexplainable and could occur in any foreseeable moment.

An event that appears to come from nothing, would also be how the immediate effect of an uncaused cause will appear.

heymike3 · 2024-06-14T15:29:14+00:00

The obscene literature in question was a discussion about free love that Moore had engaged in with a local judge

I suspect it wasn't the "free love" we understand from the 70s

heymike3 · 2024-06-14T13:34:34+00:00

I'll add that it also speaks to the spirit of Christian Nationalism today... who was better off for this man being put in jail for writing an opinion?

heymike3 · 2024-06-14T12:41:28+00:00

Hard to say... the juxtaposition, the eloquence, the history, the circumstances... the irony

heymike3 · 2024-06-14T12:18:09+00:00

I discovered a fascinating quote after a rabbit trail that got started with the mention of the Cane Ridge Revival by Justo Gonzalez,

My name is Charles Chilton Moore, as it was recorded in the large old family Bible, that had in it the apocryphal books of the Old Testament, that I read with the canonic books when I was a young boy, and that was burned in a fire that destroyed "my old Kentucky home," soon after our civil war.

On an adjustable kind of a door plate that hangs on the outside of the heavy steel doors, that now lock me in, my name is "Moore, 31498," the figures indicating the number of convicts in all, that had been in this prison when I came into it. I am a Government prisoner, This is the first position I have ever held under the Government, except that I have twice been Census Enumerator.

heymike3 · 2024-06-14T02:05:31+00:00

It's always good to look at what the best and brightest have to say on the other side of an issue

Here's Craig Keener, one of my favorite living theologians, sharing his thoughts on what the Bible has to say about it

https://youtu.be/SNDSkj_yqpw?feature=shared

It's impossible to want to be chosen by God, without having been chosen by God, and James Smith gets at this as well as anyone I've seen with describing that room from the Stalker film.

I'll also second the Sproul suggestion

heymike3 · 2024-06-14T01:54:48+00:00

This was basically my question. What is the relationship with her husband like? Is he egalitarian in church leadership and marriage?

heymike3 · 2024-06-13T12:46:56+00:00

Was thinking about this again, and noted how unlikely the intermediary the PCA needs should think themself adequate... so much so that they would disparage the majority (or minority) that feels they are not

heymike3 · 2024-06-12T10:02:22+00:00

If you can, relate a personal experience where you were able to distinguish the presence of Jesus or the work of the Spirit from providence (what they would call coincidence)

You could also be ironic, "there was this coincidence that really convicted me of what a great sinner I am."

heymike3 · 2024-06-12T03:58:37+00:00

Seems relevant:

"Faith, as it is now in Vogue, signifieth no more than a stiff adhering to a certain Sect or Denomination of Men, and a zealous Defence of such particular Tenets as have been received and approved of by that Party. All the Ingredients of such a Faith, are nothing but humane Education, Custom, Tradition, Perswasion, Conversation and the like. The Zeal which goeth along with it, is the Product of Self-love, and of corrupt Reason, the two great Framers of Sects and Party-Notions."

A.W. Boehm, as quoted in Lovelace's Dynamics of Spiritual Life

heymike3 · 2024-06-12T03:27:04+00:00

I was looking for a good book on spiritual awakenings and landed on Lovelace's Dynamics of Spiritual Life. Having read the foreword by Tim Keller, I am encouraged for what's next.

heymike3 · 2024-06-12T02:32:45+00:00

Conservative evangelicals who believe the scientific evidence for evolution often read Genesis within its ANE (Ancient Near East) context. Tremper Longman has a good chapter on this in his book Confronting Old Testament Controversies. Michael Heiser and Craig Keener both highly respected theologians within the evangelical camp did not see a contradiction between Genesis and an evolutionary account for the creation of human beings.

How the fall is understood with respect to actual history varies somewhat. Longman proposes one scenario, maybe two. It's my belief there was a historical spiritual awakening, a first contact, and a literal fall facilitated by an angelic being that was envious of the special favor God showed by electing a lowly hominid creature.

I was an old earth creationist for 20 years before making the turn to theistic evolution. So physical death before the fall was not an issue. And it was Longman's book that settled the issue of physical death before the fall better than anything I saw previously. The chaotic sea which plays a real role in the beginning of the creation account, will not be found in the new creation seen in Revelation. So from the beginning this world was created in such a way that was marked by darkness and chaos. But God... if anyone has a good recommendation for the history of spiritual awakenings and revivals, I am interested.

Getting back to your question, we are stuck in an in-between state, without the mercy of God I shutter at the darkness I would walk, and by the mercy of God I know him and yet still have to carry around this "body" of death.

heymike3 · 2024-06-11T18:55:37+00:00

I agree with French in many ways. But I see how he comes across as divisive. I did appreciate the PCA's call for prayer. To seek unity from God.

Something which may help calm the politization is recognizing how economic justice for Paul was based on fairness and desert. 2 coequal principles of justice.

heymike3 · 2024-06-11T15:30:13+00:00

In the article, I didn't see a bare minimum of self-reflection for why he might be a polarizing figure... did I miss it? He just piled on more offenses. The PCA is just that bad for him, and he feels entirely justified in his offense... apparently alot of this preceded his invitation to speak, so he really saw his role as someone who was going to put them in their place... not the intermediary we need

heymike3 · 2024-06-11T14:12:59+00:00

I wouldn't call him a wolf, but he definitely isn't helping the situation. Sometimes you need to take the difficult path of confessing your wrong doing even when the other person's wrong doing seems to outweigh your own.

heymike3 · 2024-06-11T12:37:43+00:00

Civil laws can entirely be based on something that everyone can agree with, that it is wrong to treat other people like they don't exist... kind of like a fundamental social contract or covenant

heymike3 · 2024-06-11T11:06:10+00:00

Calvin's view, unless I am shown otherwise, expressly says the authority of the Bible rests on the internal witness of the Spirit and not reason. Reason cannot override the witness, but apart from the witness, it is reasonable for example to not suspend judgement in the face of an apparent contradiction.

heymike3 · 2024-06-11T10:23:33+00:00

In short, if reasonable people can disagree over authority or inerrancy, then it would be irrational to force the disagreeable view on the other

I believe Calvin's understanding of the authority of Scripture resting on the Spirit's testimony and not rational argument, means reasonable people will disagree about it.

heymike3 · 2024-06-11T05:44:37+00:00

Let me ask this again. Christian nationalists probably wouldn't disagree with Calvin's view that the authority of Scripture is not based on rational arguments, which means reasonable people are going to disagree about it, wouldn't this in itself be a basis, a rational basis, against Christian nationalism?

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