Appeal: concession
From Jay Dyer vs Pedro from Crucible Debate: Sola Scriptura and Protestantism.
- #15141:40:48upheld Pedro epainos: concession (+1)
The council upheld the call: Pedro earned 1 point.
“I totally agree. It's not a part. The Holy Spirit is completely God, so he got me there. I think I may have misspoken.”
Diogenes: Corrected on divine simplicity in his opponent's closing, he grants the point outright in his own closing statement rather than letting it pass or defending the slip.- Aristotle uphold: On the record: Pedro's opening and running position was on sola scriptura and the canon, not on Trinitarian metaphysics; conceding this side-point on divine simplicity is a genuine concession and does not touch or depart from his standing thesis. Jay's closing explicitly corrected Pedro's earlier "part of the Godhead" phrasing as inconsistent with divine simplicity, and Pedro directly grants the correction ("he got me there... I may have misspoken") rather than defending or ignoring it — a clean instance of a concession.
- Socrates uphold: Read blind, found "concession". Jay had corrected Pedro's earlier phrase calling the Holy Spirit 'part of the Godhead,' noting Trinitarian theology holds God has no parts; here Pedro explicitly accepts the correction, admits he misspoke, and restates the orthodox formulation that the Spirit is fully God rather than a part of God.
- Plato uphold: On the record: Pedro had not made divine simplicity part of his core thesis, so conceding this side point does not touch his standing position on sola scriptura; it is simply an honest correction of an earlier slip, properly counted as a concession. Pedro had said in his opening that the Holy Spirit was "part of the Godhead," which Jay explicitly corrected in his closing as inconsistent with Trinitarian simplicity; Pedro then, in his own closing, openly grants the correction ("he got me there... I may have misspoken") rather than defending or ignoring it. This is a genuine concession of a real prior claim shown wrong.
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