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Though that is problematic. God both is in Eternity and isn't in Eternity.

From God's perspective yes. From your perspective no.

I can't answer your questions. We'll have to wait and see. Clearly talk of "end" or "beginning" is pointless with regards to eternity.

No, you are honestly given the opportunity to do something good. Going to hell is throwing it away. Why not? You keep telling me about the NT writers,...

Life after death doesn't necessarily mean it is like this life, especially if it's not a life in TIME.

And yes, God hardens your heart by allowing you to freely choose to do evil, instead of by force stopping you from choosing evil.

We've already gone through this. Please re-read the corresponding answer. You've never addressed it.

"extend"? I thought we've already clarified eternity isn't infinite temporal duration. You're given the opportunity to play a part, do you want to was...

Nope, I've already outline why that's not the case.

No, you are not free to choose whether you WANT to exist eternally or not, but you are absolutely free to choose how you will act. That's what free wi...

Logical possibility also tells me the fuckin' electron can't both pass through the slit and not pass through the slit at the same time, but yet it fuc...

Yeah so what? :s logical possibility tells me jack shit about anything anyway. It's logically possible I'll wake up a duck tomorrow, logically possibl...

What does creation ex nihilo have to do with free will? No I don't say that. You need grace to hear about God, but you've already heard about God. I d...

If I believe whether it's possible, then maybe! X-) God doesn't have the limitations of logic, being the source of both logic and illogic.

Ah okay, I see, thanks for clarifying that. I agree with that quote, but obviously I don't think the actions in themselves of earthquakes, etc. are im...

Yes. If you can make a choice, you have free will.

Free will = possibility of making a choice, yes.

Yes I will call all your statements strawmen if you keep strawmanning. That's not under my control what you say or do. But to say for example that you...

Thanks, that looks quite detailed, will have a look soon! DBH?

I do believe in the Trinity, so I'm not sure what you meant :s Fail X-) I'm not very familiar with bipolar so I won't comment. But narcissists CAN cho...

No. Looking (actively) after a woman with lust is an action, not just a desire or an inclination. That's a strawman though. No, but I don't make claim...

Have you studied all mystics? :s

Many ways, you can't possibly expect from me a critique of that whole essay in a forum post. Ask me specific questions please.

That's a strawman right there. For Christians never meant that your free will is your ability to control what desires you find yourself having, but ra...

Sure, so? If he wants to criticise the Christian God on moral matters, then he should take the moral framework that Christians hold to, not one that h...

:s where do you take this from? He wasn't officially condemned as a heretic, some of his writings however were. It absolutely is, because the things h...

That depends it's not as simple as you put it out to be. Eckhart for example takes the Godhead to be a different referent than God. You overly simplif...

:s :s :s He tried to come up with it? Don't kid yourself, Boheme, Eckhart, Pseudo-Dyonisyus etc. have already thought through that way before Berdyaev...

And he's criticising the Christian God based on his belief that we don't have free will? :s That makes no sense, because according to the Christian Go...

Why is it immoral for people to die in an earthquake? I'd say that's amoral, but not immoral, for to claim it is immoral would be to claim that the ea...

The fact that God knows how you will use your free will does NOT mean you're condemned to a certain destiny. You still have free will and you will cho...

No, but if he wants to criticise the Christian God for allowing evil, then he cannot deny free will, cause free will is an essential aspect of the Chr...

Re the Schopenhauer essay - the only interesting thing I found there was S's support for metempsychosis, from a Christian point of view that is intere...

No, it's not at all just to act police. But Justice is part of Goodness. So if you don't believe in free will, then you refuse to accept the Christian...

I don't see a question.

More substance please ;)

Actually I think I have, it's you who is frustratingly ignoring it.

Sure, except maybe the knowledge that He's incomprehensible ;)

Sure, but the question we were talking about had to do with what the Buddha actually said, so in that case it's problematic to put stuff in his mouth ...

Direct experience + faith. I do take belief in God as properly basic (as Plantinga would say) to be honest. Atheism isn't the default position for me,...

Read it. And here's an Orthodox Saint.

No, God doesn't think from the perspective of one single human, but rather from the perspective of the whole of Creation. But even from the perspectiv...

I might as well add that this ultra-rationalism with regards to morality is quite a "modern" invention. So while you're not - say - a secular progress...

I did notice this before. But you seem to have a very rationalistic/Kantian position with regards to morality. What if true morality is - dare I say -...

Oh wow, sounds exactly like Christian theology!

It's an interesting question... Is God beyond good and evil?

He wills you to have free will, exactly. Therefore He cannot control what you do with your free will, if He did, you wouldn't have free will to begin ...

God is beyond order and beyond chaos.

So what if He knew? It was still the man's free choice that made him so. God's foreknowledge does not mean lack of free will. The "morality" you're pu...

Well to me, the value that holds most power in your life is the value that you're unwilling to sacrifice for anything else. So since you're willing to...