(Ron) Definition of Inerrancy

Farrell Till jftill@midwest.net
Wed, 02 Sep 1998 22:55:18 -0700 (00904820118, 2.2.32.19980903055518.0087c4ac@midwest.net) 

At 10:15 PM 9/2/98 -0400, Brian Dean wrote:

>> >> [Elf]

>> >> Um, how could he enter into the mental state of "being tempted" if no

>> >> thought of the thing which is the temptation is present? To be able

>> to be

>> >> tempted to do X to A, one must have some king of mental state which

>> >> corresponds with doing X to A, else one can't be "tempted" to do X to

>> A.

>> >> E.g., one can in the abstract understand the idea of murder as the

>> killing

>> >> of a human being, but to be said to have overcome a temptation to

>> murder a

>> >> particular person the thought of murdering that individual must have

>> entered

>> >> ones thoughts.

>> >>

>> >> Or to put it another way, not doing what one has never even thought

>> of doing

>> >> is neither good nor bad, in fact it can't even properly be called an

>> action

>> >> at all.

>>

>

>> >RON

>>   Sorry Elf, I refuse to waste my time on these demented ramblings.

>>


TILL
Yeah, right!  The ramblings made perfectly good sense to me, so I suspect
that you won't "waste your time" on them because you realize how damaging
your answers would be to the position you have taken.  So why won't you tell
us how it could be at all possible for someone to be tempted to commit sin X
if the thought of doing it never entered the person's mind?



Farrell Till
Skepticism, Inc.
jftill@midwest.net