Uniqueness of Christ

Originally posted by @dj2becker
😴 Time for the ad hominems.

It's simply calling you out for your behaviour and not an attempt to rebut an argument by attacking your character [which is what an ad hominem would have been]. The quality of Adam Clarke's definition is not affected by the lack of integrity you have shown in plagiarizing it.

Originally posted by @fmf
It's simply calling you out for your behaviour and not an attempt to rebut an argument by attacking your character [which is what an ad hominem would have been]. The quality of Adam Clarke's definition is not affected by the lack of integrity you have shown in plagiarizing it.

I had no idea it was Adam Clarke's definition. Thanks for pointing that out. I told you I heard it somewhere and I'm not even sure if I remembered it accurately word for word. So do you have anything of substance to post about the definition or are you going to stick with your red herrings and ad hominems?

Originally posted by @dj2becker
I had no idea it was Adam Clarke's definition.

And yet you knew full well it was not your own definition. I found it after little more than 5 seconds of Googling.

Originally posted by @fmf
And yet you knew full well it was not your own definition. I found it after little more than 5 seconds of Googling.

I have also googled it now and I see that I haven't in fact quoted it correctly word for word. There are quite a few hundred words that I have left out.

Originally posted by @dj2becker
I have also googled it now and I see that I haven't in fact quoted it correctly word for word. There are quite a few hundred words that I have left out.

dj2becker: God is "the only eternal, independent and self-existing Being, whose purposes, actions and existence spring from Himself without foreign motive or influence."

Adam Clark: God is "the eternal, independent, and self-existent Being: the Being whose purposes and actions spring from Himself, without foreign motive or influence..."

Your integrity problem runs very deep when in cahoots with your pride.

Originally posted by @fmf
dj2becker: God is [b]"the only eternal, independent and self-existing Being, whose purposes, actions and existence spring from Himself without foreign motive or influence."

Adam Clark: God is "the eternal, independent, and self-existent Being: the Being whose purposes and actions spring from Himself, without foreign motive or influence..."

Your integrity problem runs very deep when in cahoots with your pride.[/b]

Thanks for sharing your perspective.

This is the full definition that I only remembered a part of:

God is “the eternal, independent, and self-existent Being; the Being whose purposes and actions spring from Himself, without foreign motive or influence; he who is absolute in dominion; the most pure, the most simple, the most spiritual of all essences; infinitely perfect; and eternally self-sufficient, needing nothing that he has made; illimitable in his immensity, inconceivable in his mode of existence, and indescribable in his essence; known fully only by himself, because an infinite mind can only be fully comprehended by itself. In a word, a Being who, from his infinite wisdom, cannot err or be deceived, and from his infinite goodness, can do nothing but what is eternally just, and right, and kind.” [Adam Clarke in Cyclopaedia, vol. 3

Originally posted by @dj2becker
Thanks for sharing your perspective.

This is the full definition that I only remembered a part of:

God is “the eternal, independent, and self-existent Being; the Being whose purposes and actions spring from Himself, without foreign motive or influence; he who is absolute in dominion; the most pure, the most simple, the most spiritual of all essences ...[text shortened]... do nothing but what is eternally just, and right, and kind.” [Adam Clarke in Cyclopaedia, vol. 3

As much as you may now squirm and wriggle, it was plagiarism.

Originally posted by @fmf
As much as you may now squirm and wriggle, it was plagiarism.

Thanks for your perspective.