See, I read your comments about Tom, and I wonder. You don’t know him, yet you judge him.
Whatever his personal faith is, he seems 100% committed. Just because he refused to talk about his personal beliefs doesn’t mean he doesn’t have them. That is a fallacious line of argumentation. You really don’t know.
I don’t detect nominalism at all.
I don’t detect agnosticism at all.
I don’t detect a desire to argue just for the sake of arguing at all. Every word he said has a point. No one refuted him, ever. Brother Hart did all he could to slime him. Why is that? Maybe he exposed Brother Hart for what he is.
Brother Hart, for all his knowledge, does not make well thought out arguments - ever.
What do I suspect about Brother Hart? Well, I would say he is nihilistic. He mocks everyone’s faith all the time. Nothing in this world is real or has meaning for him. Is it possible for a person to be a Christian nihilist?
I think that Tom has his number. That is why Dr. Hart feels threatened by him. Besides, Tom was the only really interesting thing going on here. Without him, y’all can get back to your regularly scheduled, dreadfully boring disagreements with one another - because that is what Protestants do. If it’s not with the Papists, it is with the Pietists. If it’s not with the Pietists, it’s with the Arminians. If it’s not with the Arminians, it’s with the neo-Calvinists and the Charismatics and the Episcopalians and the list goes on and on.
So, who are the ones who like to pick fights again? Not Tom. He tried to intervene when y’all got nasty. It worked sometimes.
I think Brother Hart didn’t like it that everyone wanted to talk to Tom and not him.
ni·hil·ism
ˈnīəˌlizəm,ˈnēəˌlizəm/Submit
noun
the rejection of all religious and moral principles, often in the belief that life is meaningless.
synonyms: skepticism, negativity, cynicism, pessimism; More
PHILOSOPHY
extreme skepticism maintaining that nothing in the world has a real existence.
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