#scott oliphint

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"Christ emptied himself by becoming something that he was not previously, something that, by definition, required humility and ultimately humiliation."

Scott Oliphint

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A standard premise in most cosmological arguments is that infinite regress of causes is impossible. Perhaps it is and perhaps it isn't. Whatever the case with such a regress, it presupposes the creation of things, like causes, to regress. Just how or whether one can get from the created mode to a mode of existence and being that transcends creation, and is of its own kind, is never argued in the proof; it is merely assumed. On that line of argument, there seems to be no real move in the argument from creation to Creator, and no way of seeing how such could be done. So, we must keep the Creator/creature distinction in mind all along.

K. Scott Oliphint

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The reason God cannot square a circle is not that he is subject to some necessity outside of himself or in some way constraining his character, but because he created a circle to be a certain way, and a square to be a certain way, and thus their necessity lies in his creative hand, not in something abstract and above God.

K. Scott Oliphint