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not sure it is possible to articulate the thought about not thinking about God, without thinking about God. There may well be an infinite set of thing...

agree - and to me a more important philosophical paradox is between the Principle of Credulity, and CORNEA The Principle of Credulity: - It is basic t...

I think people should be able say whatever they believe about the Bible, and leave it to the discernment of the audience to agree or not. As is your r...

One can say whatever one wants about the nature of God, as long as they acknowledge that those ideas are outside reason - and are based on some faith ...

Hey I get to recycle this now - so how about we all just stipulate, that basis some reasonable interpretations of the Bible there are passages that ca...

or our completely human understanding of what we call "omnipotence" and how we define it, has absolutely nothing at all to do with the nature of such ...

Hello preacher - meet me the choir

sorry - got my threads mixed up - mea culpa and I slink back into my hole

Brian - so how about we all just stipulate, that basis some reasonable interpretations of the Bible there are passages that can be shown to be contrad...

Yea, but they have that in persona Cristi thing - big time job security there

My unsupportable opinion is 99% of this is for human aggrandizement and 1% for the greater glory of God. But I could be a little to cynical

ok - no argument from me - it is a personal journey - enjoy the trip

Just a slightly different take. This is from Ignatian Spirituality - It is called imaginative prayer - and what Ignatius asks is that instead of readi...

Than I think the verse to start with is John 18:38

ok. seems we are in a do loop. No worries

Not exactly sure what the objective of your position is. is it: My reading of the bible contains contradictions I can not reconcile and as such, i can...

that seems like a whole lot of word that say Aleph - null is a label for a concept to me - What am I missing ??

I understand, but if Aleph-null +1 = Aleph-null and if Aleph-null + the size of any finite set = Aleph-null is Aleph-null a number in any way other th...

are sets of any size numbers ???

that's what I said !!!

Just an FYI, the Catholic teaching is that the Bible is inherent in its purpose which is the salvation of souls. It is not a history or scientific tex...

ok , sure. Thanks

I could have pulled from all kinds of other sites, just grabbed that one. Tranfinite numbers are not, by definition infinity, They are, by definition ...

Infinity in mathematics is a mathematical concept. Same as mathematical operations. = is not a number, it is a concept, it is still math.

probably will regret this, but respectfully disagree. Infinity is not a number, it is a concept. https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Calculus/Infinite_Lim...

so how would one answer questions like how many real numbers are there between say 1 and 2, how many lines can pass through a point, without a concept...

Again to the op - infinity is not a number- it is a concept

Infinity is not a number of any kind it is a label for a concept.

Math is hard.

Jake - attached the myth of Sisyphus for you. Worth the read. http://www2.hawaii.edu/~freeman/courses/phil360/16.%20Myth%20of%20Sisyphus.pdf

Just an aside - so pardon the interruption. But just FYI the Tridentine mass is making a fairly strong comeback. Like you I am not a big fan of how V2...

Jake - just to be clear there is no Catholic doctrine that says God is Everything - that is your addition - Catholic doctrine says God is God, and God...

I want to understand Jake, and I am sure it due to my ignorance, but to me at least you are just constantly describing a state of affairs, but never p...

Not a very developed thought, but it just crossed my mind reading this. If I made an argument that man's activities had no impact on climate change, I...

Please continue then, such as ......

One can imagine all kinds of things, that does not however raise those ideas to level of supported propositions that are required to be accepted as tr...

not sure I understand your point. Skeptical theists, are theists, they believe in such a thing as God. But this belief has little to do with the philo...

I am not sure this is possible, certainly there is great empirical evidence it is not. We as creatures appear to have a need to understand why we exis...

Jake - I have seen you make this point, and I have tried to see where you are going with this. Sadly you lose me each time you make the point we shoul...

skeptical theism is not theology, it is a philosophy. It only deals with reason. It is not directly an argument for or against such a thing as God. Al...

I think a better moral question would be is picking tobacco leaves for $20 an hr, less moral than say being a nurses aide for $18 an hour if you had a...

I understand your point. Maybe my idea can be clearer if I take out God, and use some other faith based claim. Let's say I make a claim that by faith ...

Jake - thanks the thoughts. I think the natural tension between philosophy and theology is a good thing. This tension allows us to continually test wh...

I think I at least understand your point better. Let me paraphrase and see if I have it. There is an objective reality- things are But until this obje...

I agree. My only addition would be this. I believe one can believe something to be true and act accordingly based on fact, reason, or faith. With the ...

one does not follow the other

again I just stated what ST is, no clue how you got that out of it

have no clue what point you are making here

I feel no reason to defend my belief in god. The only concern I have is the claim my belief in god is unreasonable.

I am starting the position of skeptical theism that you can not make a reason based statement about the nature of god If you think that is incorrect m...