Interesting post in the Logos Blog discussing Aristotle and truth. It lists these 3 Rules of Thought...
What's interesting about all three of these is that YHWH can and most certainly does break all three of the "rules" at will. I'm not sure theologians get that--I'm pretty sure most don't. I say quite often that YHWH is a logical God...but it isn't our logic that He adheres to, it is His own. His logic is He does whatever He wants whenever He wants. Fortunately, He does express Himself in (from our perspective) mostly dependable ways. In other words, He is internally consistent. Also fortunate, when it comes to His expectation toward humanity, He is plainly clear. When that expectation is disregarded, however, He becomes hopelessly inscrutable, which includes disregarding the "laws" above.
I read the above sentence with a mixture of reactions. It never ceases to amaze me that Christians have historically had no trepidation nor compunction about tying itself so intimately with the two "thought fathers" of the third iteration of the Beast. I realize that the fact they would, will, and continue to do this is a prophetic certainty, but the entire failure to recognize this little conceptual nugget is staggering. Of course, most prophecy is staggering, so nothing particularly unusual there.
