Bob Ross

:fire: It is worth mentioning that one can be for free speech while being against tolerance: -- Chesterton. Just because one has to respect another's ...

The entirety of a syllogism is a mere series of assertions; but I can elaborate. I have been thinking about this more since the creation of the OP, so...

To be fair, I do think that there is a prominent sense colloquially where confused theists will explain faith in this manner; but I think if we are ir...

What is your definition of "faith"? So far, it sounds like it is "believing something despite the evidence".

Ok, so you are defining "faith" as "belief despite the evidence" and not "belief which has an element of trust in an authority mixed up"; so I think w...

This is disanalogous: your example here states multiple different arguments for why factory farming is wrong without providing an exposition of any of...

Fair enough: that is what I meant by ‘disposition’, but I get your point. By authority, I don’t mean only entities which have power or rights to judge...

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I would just clarify that faith is about trust in the strict sense of "in an authority". I could trust in the chair in that "this chair will hold me i...

I said no nor never implied such things: my definition was clear. A faith-based belief can have any degree of certitude (just like non-faith-based one...

By Jesus, I am referring to the man; and by the Son I am referring to God as the Word. For you, I would imagine that Jesus refers to the man and the S...

I know, Janus: I know.

1. It is not in God's power to be a Trinity: it is God's nature to be a Trinity. To say it is in His power is to imply that God chose to be or willed ...

I just did, lmao. If you don't think my assessment was accurate, then please provide a substantial rebuttal.

Faith is a subclass of beliefs, of cognitive dispositions about propositions, that have at least in part an element of trust in an authority mixed up ...

Sorry for the belated response! My answer was that there are three kinds of things that can be quantified over for the sake of this discussion as it r...

There seems to be a lot being said with very few words in that thread you shared; and I would worry that it is too loaded and runs the risk of being a...

I agree. I would say that it would be rational if this man is reasoning in accordance with Reason’s principles; and it is a ‘rationally free choice’, ...

??I agree; however, in your hypothetical we were hypothesizing a child which indeed had the same maturity as an adult and, consequently, my argument s...

I would argue that they would have the same culpability; for children are given less because we assume they don’t have such knowledge. If we assume th...

I agree with that, if that is what they are saying. I think one could argue that God has a propensity for graciousness; but grace doesn't override jus...

My point was that God is not the offended party like the victim: God cannot be a victim. So God may be offended, and it is right to point out every si...

I am not taking a principle of equality but, rather, proportionality. It is not that a, e.g., sin that happened for 10-minutes has to be punished with...

Religion can go hand-and-hand with philosophy: specifically theology. It doesn't always, but it can. Religion is about worship through tradition; theo...

Yes, but is this sin against God, whereof God is not the thing directly offended nor the offender, warrant eternal punishment? I don’t see how eternal...

Thank you, I will take a look.

I think this is a good point and, upon thinking about it more, I think it is per se possible that a sin could carry with it eternal punishment; but th...

This may true, but it isn't necessarily true; and I don't believe that religions were created with this in mind: they were seeking the truth the best ...

Perhaps I am misreading Acquinas, but it seems as though, even in your excerpt, he is arguing that sin is the disruption of God's order and, as such, ...

Your take is very interesting. I would say, despite it not pertaining to your take directly, I still don’t see how sin is ‘objectively infinitely bad’...

I don’t think Judaism itself dictates a 12-month purgatory (e.g., there are plenty of jews that believe in eternal punishment); and Islam is also an A...

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This seems to me to be a straw man of theology. Not all theological theories include religion; and those that do don't necessarily fall prey to your c...

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You are grossly miseducated. https://www.openbible.info/topics/accepting_jesus_as_your_savior -- Acts 17:30 -- Luke 15:10 -- Acts 2:38 -- 2 Peter 3:9 ...

I am not talking about religion per se: I am talking about theology. It may be the case that no religion has good reasons to believe in eternal punish...

Firstly, that doesn't matter: the OP is about if it would be just for God to eternally punish sinners. Secondly, Christianity crucially advocates for ...

Interesting account: I am not familiar with Judaism. The issue I see here is alluded to in your last sentence here: is it really punishment to just, e...

I went on a similar journey a while ago and came to strikingly similar conclusions. In fact, I grew up contending with colloquial arguments for theism...

I completely agree that the Bible, especially the Old Testament, does not depict God accurately nor justice; but I am wondering what reasons one may h...

This was a wonderful summary: thank you! However, how would you propose a sin carries infinite demerit? Do you agree that it doesn't?

Yes, sinning is to will against God--infinite goodness--but why would this entail infinite demerit for that sin?

Yeah, I just don't find that plausible. Just because God creates us, it does not follow that God can do whatever He wants with us (so we can't just be...

None of this even attempted to answer the OP: what we are exploring here is whether or not it is just for an unrepentant sinner to be eternally punish...

Courage, e.g., is not an emotion and requires fear which is painful: the experience machine is about pleasures (as far as I understand). Like I said b...

The experience machine doesn't give people the higher goods: it just gives people this shallow sense of hedonic happiness. The goods worth pursuing re...

That's how it works in the US, and it has worked fine.

Your thinking presupposes that the a priori modes of cognition have to mirror the natural laws; and this is simply not true. Who said that, e.g., math...

Indeterminism is a short-hand for physical indeterminism, I would say; but I get your point.