Appeal: explicit argument

From Plagues, Popes & Pandemonium! OPEN DEBATE! Geopolitics, Conspiracy, Theology, Film! 2026-10-05 17:50.

• #22602:23:56upheld Jay Dyer epainos: explicit argument (+2)
  The council upheld the call, but nothing on this stream goes on anyone’s record.
  “I said, God the father is a man with a body who became a god and still has a physical body. So that's not god the father. So how is it the same god when if you read the Nicene Creed, it says, I believe in one God the father.”
  Diogenes: Pressed by Trap on whether Mormons worship "the same Jesus", Jay sets out premises (Mormon doctrine makes the Father an exalted embodied man; the Creed confesses one God the Father, uncreated), draws the conclusion (not the same God), and states the link (the Creed's definition of the Father is what the Mormon Father fails), while correcting Trap's reading of what he had said.

  major: A clear premises-to-conclusion argument that answers the caller's challenge directly and carries the point in the exchange.

  • Aristotle uphold: On the record: Jay Dyer opened as host of an open forum and has held an Orthodox presuppositionalist stance against rival systems, including Mormonism; the called line, arguing the Mormon Father is not the Nicene God, is consistent with that stance and does not depart from it. He states a premise (the Mormon Father is a man who became a god, with a body), a conclusion (not the same God), and the link (the Creed confesses one God the Father). The verifier confirms both the Mormon premise and the Creed wording. It is compressed and partly a rhetorical question, but premise, conclusion and link are all present. Major severity is a stretch but acceptable.
  • Socrates uphold: Read blind, found "explicit argument". Jay corrects the caller's paraphrase ("that's not what I said") and then argues in steps. Premise: the Mormon God the Father is a man who became a god and still has a body. Premise: the Nicene Creed confesses one God the Father. Conclusion: the two are not the same God. He states the link himself ("how is it the same god"), and a live opponent is on the floor. The argument is short but complete, so it earns a minor credit.
  • Plato uphold: On the record: Jay Dyer opened as host of an open forum, declared Eastern Orthodoxy and a presuppositionalist method, and has held a running polemic against rival systems; the line applies the Nicene Creed's "one God the Father" against the Mormon Father, which fits that stance and does not depart from it. Jay states a premise (the Mormon Father is an exalted man with a body), draws a conclusion (not the same God), and links them through the Creed's confession of one God the Father. The verifier confirms the Creed wording and the D&C 130:22 premise. The attribution slip over who asked the "same Jesus" question moves nothing. The three elements of explicit argument are present, though compactly.

  The bench voted on this, and its verdict is kept as it was given. It does not vote on the calls of a call-in show now, and nothing there counts on anybody’s record.

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