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Galatians 1:12 "I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ."

We get to be tortured and damned by the God of Love, I'm told.

He stated that what he taught was not the work of man. Paul is a man. If it is Paul's work, it is the work of man. "Not the work of man" implies that it is the work of God using Paul as a means of conveying His teaching.

We have nothing to be found in Paul's work that stands out as possibly divinely inspired, that it is not the work of man. We have many examples of his use of Greek philosophy and theology taken from older cultures, blood sacrifice, etc, which is the work of man. The assertion that "this...

Plain crazy.

Whether compatibalism fails or not still doesn’t relate to 'light at the eye/instant vision,' transforming human nature or achieving world peace.

As compatibilists define it. The given definition of determinism is not being disputed. I don't dispute it. To me it's just a question of whether the idea of free will as defined by compatibilists is compatible with their own definition of determinism, which I don't dispute. Given the...

Tight turn.

No doubt. It just doesn't relate all that well with the nature of determinism as it happens to be defined.

It doesn't look hopeful that we'll ever get over that sh*t. Self interest, division and conflict looks to be our business as usual.

Paul's claim that what he taught was not the work of man is demonstrably false. What Paul taught, claiming divine inspiration, is the flawed work of a flawed man.

God can be found in the places where all imaginary things reside.

Contingency and modal possibility ''In logic, a thing is considered to be possible when it is true in at least one possible world. This means there is a way to imagine a world in which a statement is true and in which its truth does not contradict any other truth in that world. If it were...

Ahem, there was nothing particularly controversial to be found in the Overview. As with Contingency, the given definitions of compatibilism and determinism were reasonable, Nothing much to complain about. Just a question of whether compatibilism is actually compatible with determinism, and...

Make way, make way, there's work to be done.