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Mike Winger idea 2022-07-18

Philip Payne claims ancient Greek thought regarded the heart, not the brain, as the control center

Mike presents Philip Payne's version of the medical argument.

Philip Payne medical argument Plato
Mike Winger idea 2022-07-18

Payne's Plato citation backfires: Plato actually says the heart is subservient to the head/reason

Mike examines the actual Plato passage Payne cites and finds it says the opposite of what Payne claims.

Philip Payne Plato Timaeus
Mike Winger idea 2022-07-18

Second Plato quote: the head is the most divine part, and the body is its servant

Mike presents another Plato passage that strongly supports head as authority.

Plato head as divine part body as servant of head
Mike Winger idea 2022-07-18

Egalitarian scholars echo each other's errors, tracing back to Bedale's short article

Mike critiques the pattern of egalitarian scholars citing each other rather than primary sources.

Stephen Bedale scholarly echo chamber citation practices
Mike Winger idea 2022-07-18

Payne also claims most people in Paul's day believed the heart controlled the body

Mike addresses Payne's broader claim about popular belief in the ancient world.

Philip Payne Rebecca Groothuis popular ancient belief
Mike Winger idea 2022-07-18

Richard Cervin's article — the source behind egalitarian lexical claims; problematic methodology

Mike identifies Richard Cervin as the key source behind egalitarian lexical arguments.

BDAG Wayne Grudem Richard Cervin
Mike Winger idea 2022-07-18

Cervin uses only author-specific lexicons (Plato, Thucydides) from much earlier periods of Greek — not Koine Greek

Mike critiques Cervin's substitution of classical Greek lexicons for NT lexicons.

Plato Wayne Grudem Richard Cervin
Mike Winger idea 2018-12-05

Refuting the 'temple prostitution' interpretation of Romans 1 with historical scholarship

Q&A question about whether Romans 1 only condemns exploitative or temple-based homosexuality, not loving committed same-sex relationships.

Matthew Vines Romans 1 hermeneutics homosexuality Greek exegesis
Mike Winger idea 2019-02-13

Aseity (divine self-existence) and abstract objects: Mike denies abstract objects truly exist, resolving the problem

Viewer asking about God's aseity and how God can exist prior to abstract objects like the number one

nominalism aseity abstract objects
Mike Winger idea 2019-07-03

Euthyphro dilemma fails for the Christian God but was valid against finite pagan gods

Historical-philosophical context explaining why the dilemma persisted

Plato polytheism nature of God
Mike Winger idea 2021-03-12

Plato's influence on Christianity: limited and often overstated due to caricatures of ancient thought

Q2 from Tony Oshikonlu: What does Plato have to do with Christianity? Was Plato as influential on Christianity as the Bible?

John 1 Plato Philo of Alexandria John 1
Mike Winger idea 2020-03-11

Refuting Dean Odel's claim that Revelation 20:9 ("breadth/plane of the earth") proves flat earth via Greek word "platos." Problems: (1) platos means "wide/broad," not "flat" — Strongs says "broad"; (2) the passage describes a specific military march, probably across the valley of Megiddo; (3) earth doesn't mean planet here, just land.

Revelation 20:9 Greek word — breadth, not flat

Revelation 20:9 flat earth Dean Odel Revelation 20:9