... and that's exactly the point, where, as a Windows user, I have to prefer an office suite that's written for Windows specifically. What do I care whether it runs on MacOS or Linux, too? I only use one OS at a time, so I'd rather have something that performs well on that OS, than wasting my time with a bloated implementation, just because, theoretically, I could use it on another OS.
With the huge prevalence of Windows OS's, there should be an OSS office suite taylored for Windows -- in the marketplace, outperforming other Windows office suites will be much more interesting than being multi-OS.
There's a number of fallacies in you're reasoning, which is probably not surprising, since you did not reason at all, but simply copy and paste. Let me just point out the most obvious ones: your first premises.
1.) If God exists, then he is immutable
Is that so? Well at least the God of the Bible is described as immutable in his essential attributes (love, grace, justice, omnipotence, holiness, etc.) but not in other details. If you claim otherwise, you're just imposing your own philosophical model -- or you need to find Biblical proof, which I would be very interested to read. In the meantime, with the immutability of God limited to essential attributes, your whole cause about the impossibility of intention breaks down.
1.) If the Christian God exists, everything that exists is part of his perfect, divine plan.
You might be quite well advised to read your Bible before making such bold statements about "the Christian God", who, according to the Bible has a perfect, divine plan, which he wishes to be carried out, but, at the same time, grants freedom to his creatures, which very often results in the very opposite.
Whether "dynamic equivalent" or not, the Greek does allow for both "man's number" or "the number of a man" here, simply because the genitival construction used in this verse is ambiguous.
BTW, if you're looking for a rather accurate English translation, you should try the New American Standard Bible (La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1995).
The greek word is "epi," and it looks to me like in/on/over/upon are all valid translations...
... because that's what "epi" does actually mean.
Besides, there is no "original Greek translation" of the New Testament, simply because the Greek is the original and not a translation.
If you don't like a free s/w project, then do not use it. No one is forcing you. If you do not like what I have written, bad luck for you. If you do like it, feel free to use it and even improve on it if you like.
Cool, if that's the way, then I'll do as you suggested: I won't be using it. Probably along with 99% of all the people. We'll just keep using the commercial software that we happen to like and you'll keep bashing us for being such ignorant people. Is that the way this is supposed to work?
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... and that's exactly the point, where, as a Windows user, I have to prefer an office suite that's written for Windows specifically. What do I care whether it runs on MacOS or Linux, too? I only use one OS at a time, so I'd rather have something that performs well on that OS, than wasting my time with a bloated implementation, just because, theoretically, I could use it on another OS. With the huge prevalence of Windows OS's, there should be an OSS office suite taylored for Windows -- in the marketplace, outperforming other Windows office suites will be much more interesting than being multi-OS.
Shouldn't somebody tell them that's "Gnu-slash-Linux" ?
I wouldn't be willing to have Windows on my computer, and you shouldn't have it on yours ...
So I'm not free to use Windows? How does that fit in?
There's a number of fallacies in you're reasoning, which is probably not surprising, since you did not reason at all, but simply copy and paste. Let me just point out the most obvious ones: your first premises.
1.) If God exists, then he is immutable
Is that so? Well at least the God of the Bible is described as immutable in his essential attributes (love, grace, justice, omnipotence, holiness, etc.) but not in other details. If you claim otherwise, you're just imposing your own philosophical model -- or you need to find Biblical proof, which I would be very interested to read. In the meantime, with the immutability of God limited to essential attributes, your whole cause about the impossibility of intention breaks down.
1.) If the Christian God exists, everything that exists is part of his perfect, divine plan.
You might be quite well advised to read your Bible before making such bold statements about "the Christian God", who, according to the Bible has a perfect, divine plan, which he wishes to be carried out, but, at the same time, grants freedom to his creatures, which very often results in the very opposite.
Whether "dynamic equivalent" or not, the Greek does allow for both "man's number" or "the number of a man" here, simply because the genitival construction used in this verse is ambiguous.
BTW, if you're looking for a rather accurate English translation, you should try the New American Standard Bible (La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1995).
The greek word is "epi," and it looks to me like in/on/over/upon are all valid translations ...
... because that's what "epi" does actually mean.
Besides, there is no "original Greek translation" of the New Testament, simply because the Greek is the original and not a translation.
Wow, I'd like that instead of that old 8 GB harddisk in my network server.
If you don't like a free s/w project, then do not use it. No one is forcing you. If you do not like what I have written, bad luck for you. If you do like it, feel free to use it and even improve on it if you like.
Cool, if that's the way, then I'll do as you suggested: I won't be using it. Probably along with 99% of all the people. We'll just keep using the commercial software that we happen to like and you'll keep bashing us for being such ignorant people. Is that the way this is supposed to work?
Okay, but even if they succeed, this is only the U.S. The spammers will just have to use an open relay in another country.
Well, it wouldn't exactly be the "rural village" with the "occasional ox cart" where they built high-tech parts for a few cents, would it?