Wednesday Bible Study: Deepities

The useful part

"Deepity" is a term made famous by the late philosopher Daniel Dennett for a statement that appears to be but is actually trivial on one level and meaningless or ludicrous on another. Dennett particularly applied it to the charlatan Deepak Chopra, but Chopra had an excellent role model in Paul. You can see for yourself that this is mostly gibberish but I'll just make a couple of points.

How it works

• So there is actually nothing we can do to be saved, whether you go for the faith or the works side of the contradiction Paul has already struggled with.
• 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
• No matter how faithful or sinless we are, God does not graciously give us all things.
• The passage beginning with verse 28 introduces the doctrine of predestination, which I believe I have already mentioned is embraced by Calvinism.
• If God is all-knowing and all-powerful, than he has known since the beginning of time who will be saved and he in fact decided who they would be.

What to take from it

There's a logical problem with the concept of God. The passage beginning with verse 31 -- " 31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things?

Details worth keeping

Romans 8 is essentially a torrent of deepities.