And, of course, the pre-Trib Rapture crowd can easily explain it away by saying that as RTCs they won't need seals, being as how they'll be in Heaven by then. Which doesn't solve the problem of the Rapture not being in the Bible, but that's a separate issue.
Because God, being all-powerful, is obviously unable to communicate clearly.
I've been in that argument too. They say something about expecting "all-powerful" to mean "able to be completely unambiguous when using an imperfect, human-created language, even after translation" being "as ridiculous as asking whether He can create a stone too big for Him to lift." So I'm all, "Yeah, about that stone..." And they proceed to explain that there are several possible kinds of "omnipotence," and which one applies to God. It's a decent explanation for the more minor cases of Biblical wonkiness, but there are other instances where it just doesn't cut it. This is one of them.
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Date: 2008-11-04 04:39 am (UTC)Because God, being all-powerful, is obviously unable to communicate clearly.
I've been in that argument too. They say something about expecting "all-powerful" to mean "able to be completely unambiguous when using an imperfect, human-created language, even after translation" being "as ridiculous as asking whether He can create a stone too big for Him to lift." So I'm all, "Yeah, about that stone..." And they proceed to explain that there are several possible kinds of "omnipotence," and which one applies to God. It's a decent explanation for the more minor cases of Biblical wonkiness, but there are other instances where it just doesn't cut it. This is one of them.