“It doesn’t mean the 2nd party is a “robot” as you put it.
It means the 1st party knows how to convince and create belief in the other.”
~ ~ ~
Hi, thanks for your kind reply.
Show me how Calvinism is not amount to being a robot? God
has already chosen who is in and who isn’t.
Love isn’t love unless it is true. Why would anyone wish
to reject the gift of free will?
And that’s another thing, when did this man come up with his teaching? That should stop you. Run from Calvinism, it’s not of Christ. Calvinism was never passed on from the Apostles.
Robots are not the cursed decendants of an original robot who was once free, but freely choose to enter the curse for himself and all his progeny.
I used to be Arminian. The robot argument was my favorite rejoinder to Calvinists I knew. But one day I realized it was not an argument from divine wisdom, but from fleshly wisdom. So of course it makes sense to the mind of fallen man. But it doesn’t account for Scripture. What God reveals surely trumps any human analogy I can concoct. I should expect God to know more than I do about how he works. If I don’t like it, well, too bad so sad. So I gave up my “winning analogies” and went back to my Bible. And from that time to this, I have believed the doctrines of grace, as they are sometimes called, with no regrets.
I've already given you a good analogy. Working to convince another toward faith in something does not involve robotics.
Robots aren't cognizant. Cognizance is involved in the faith process.