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Answering this has become so common and tedious that I place it here for reference. | Answering this has become so common and tedious that I place it here for reference. | ||
The scoffer says, "I never made any claims". | The scoffer says, "I never made any claims". | ||
What is a claim? | What is a claim? | ||
It may be a propositional statement of truth, but not always. | It may be a propositional statement of truth, but not always. | ||
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It may be a scoff wherein you claim the thing scoffed is not true. The act of scoffing is such a claim. | It may be a scoff wherein you claim the thing scoffed is not true. The act of scoffing is such a claim. | ||
When someone says they own something because they bought it, that is a propositional statement claiming that there is more to existence than time, energy, mass and chance. Ownership is an attribute borrowed from God. He owns because he created. | When someone says they own something because they bought it, that is a propositional statement claiming that there is more to existence than time, energy, mass and chance. Ownership is an attribute borrowed from God. He owns because he created. | ||
If that person then scoffs at being owned by God, they have contradicted their previous claim. Their claim of ownership demonstrates Romans 1 which says that all men know that God is God. | If that person then scoffs at being owned by God, they have contradicted their previous claim. Their claim of ownership demonstrates Romans 1 which says that all men know that God is God. | ||
Ro 1:19 ¶ Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed [it] unto them. | Ro 1:19 ¶ Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed [it] unto them. | ||
