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3\/7\/2023 Fun interaction on Facebook on God and Logic<\/a>. Basically I posted:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There has been debate on this within Christendom no doubt and thus affected one's view on God's sovereignty, i.e. predestination vs. arminianism, various understanding of trinity, Christ's dual nature (creaturely vs. divine), apologetics <\/a>methods (i.e. transcendental vs. classical), C.VanTil & G.Bahnsen vs. WLCraig & F.Turek, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It comes down to this:
1. God = logic (it's a property of God, attribute of God, nature of God, logic = logos, etc.) or
2. God > logic (God created\/authored logic, logic is not logos, attempted archetype vs. ectype models, etc.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

#1. God cannot be and not be, God cannot lie, etc.
#2. Anthropomorphic language is prohibited to fully grasp God. God simply is (Am). Hence #1. is not applicable.
#1. Then God is arbitrary.
#2. No. Again, creaturely language.
etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But as a foundation to understand all these, I would suggest first to grasp this:
God is Truth, He is the source of Truth, He is the ontology of Truth.
-Truth itself (Himself) is not the same as understanding of the Truth
(Not talking about human mental capacity. Qualitative distinction, not in a quantitative manner)
-Understanding of the Truth is not the same as Explanation of the Truth.
-Explanation of the Truth is not the same as hearing of the Truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

German philosophy on existence vs. Dasein also helped advance this line of study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In theology there is a great emphasis on making the distinction between God's Knowledge of Himself vs. God's Knowledge of the world to avoid the risk of pantheistic switch<\/em>. (Van Til - The Defense of the Faith, Chp 3 The Christian Philosophy of Knowledge - 2. God's Knowledge of the World<\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After another google alert about running out of free storage space (11 used of 15 GB)<\/strong>, I took about 2 hours cleaning up. Downloading emails with large attachments and photo galleries to my Photo drive. Bringing the used space down from 11GB to 7GB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to fyyy.tv's response to my gmail request for links to Stephen Tong's remaining videos:<\/strong> \u8bf7\u95ee\u54ea\u91cc\u53ef\u4e0b\u8f7d \u300a\u5510\u5d07\u8363\u8bb2\u9053\u96c69\u300b\u300a\u5510\u5d07\u8363\u8bb2\u9053\u96c610\u300b\u300a\u5510\u5d07\u8363\u8bb2\u9053\u96c611\u300b \u7b49\u7b49\uff1fI was given new link to access. May the downloading project continues!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also coming across the old AAA astronomy club music by Donna Stearns wife of Jason Kendall, kept a copy in my 2008 photo archive as well in case it's lost online: UP, UP, UP IN THE SKY<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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