No, since atheism has no desire to experience God. A complete apophaticism represents a desire for God, but it doesn't work alone, it requires dogma. ...
I really thought you understood this from Schopenhauer. The categories of thought that apply to the phenomenon don't apply to the noumenon... If poor ...
I'm not sure I would affirm such a cataphatic statement about God :P - that presupposes for example that God has a nature, just like created things do...
Well one aspect of the conflict for example is displayed by the fact that Ivan uses arguments. This surprises Alyosha, because arguments for/against G...
>:O I wrote it to explain to you why Orthodoxy lacks autobiographical material with regards to mystics in comparison to the West. However, a theologia...
Sure but that's because God is the standard of good itself. The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, entirely out of His own accord. Why is it bad if H...
But did you understand it? Do you understand why Alyosha never gave Ivan a reply? Do you understand the West-East conflict that is playing out there? ...
Not at all, my moral argument from teleology holds that we all, as human beings, have the same telos, which is by no means "average", but quite the co...
Why do you think I wrote: ? No, dogmas are fixed statements, which don't necessarily use cataphatic language at all. They are however useful to practi...
No, your perspective is wrong. There is only one true perspective, and that is God's. Your notions of right and wrong are first of all corrupted by or...
Those traditions are wrong. No as in God wouldn't do wrong. What is wrong for you to do isn't necessarily wrong for God to do - that's the difference ...
Also please note that God depriving you of free will doesn't mean the same thing as me depriving you of free will. When I deprive you of free will, I ...
Nope. Creator has different rights than creatures. It would be wrong for a creature to deprive you of your free will, not for God. If it wasn't for Go...
No it doesn't sound like Descartes evil demon. But the standard of what's right and wrong changes. You keep talking about God committing wrong - that ...
Why is it wrong when God has created them from nothing and wields complete power over them, not having had to create them in the first place? Does God...
Why would it be? :s I see no necessary contradiction in God breaking the will of human beings. The only reason He does not break it, is because He doe...
Breaking the free will of his creatures is not logically impossible (like making 2+2=5 is, or creating a stone so heavy that he cannot lift, etc.). An...
Really those passages aren't so hard to deal with, if you just had access to Apostolic Tradition under the guidance of the Church. The Bible was never...
God "hardens their hearts" by not breaking their free will. God could force them to believe in Him and thus be saved, but then He would break their fr...
What does God's grace have to do with their will? God has already fully revealed Himself to them, and they have rejected Him. Yes, they could realise ...
What would cause them to regret their actions? They already know everything there is to know. So there isn't anymore knowledge that they can have - so...
They cannot repent because what could cause them to repent? If in full knowledge of God they turn against Him, then what can cause them to repent? The...
>:O >:O >:O >:O Do you have your pink flying pony with you Wayfarer? :D A religion of one's own is precisely what a religion is not - a religion invol...
How do you know there isn't a reason? Just because God hasn't told it to you doesn't mean you can just infer its absence :s Theoretically, but practic...
Calvin was most likely a heretic with a profound misunderstanding of the Bible, who rejected the authority of the Apostolic tradition. :s you asked ab...
Sure, I perfectly agree with this. This is referencing people who are fully aware of God's Love, but who nevertheless reject it and turn away from it....
An Orthodox would say that apophatic theology can't exist without DOGMA, which is a bit different. Catholicism has more spiritual autobiographies and ...
This is false under a common reading that equivocates between the two uses of sacrifice. Orthodox believers are supposed to, in English terminology, s...
>:O >:O >:O Good that I see at least you removed your insults from this comment. No, it's not at all authoritative. The Moscow Patriarchate does not, ...
No, the moral of the story actually amounts to something different. That Job is puny and insignificant, and while he's yelling at God, he doesn't unde...
Cataphatic vs Apophatic. Like who? People like Dionysus? I know he does, but the Catholic Church largely doesn't interpret him that way. You should at...
I think it certainly thinks the way St. Thomas Aquinas used the neo-Platonic works was wrong at least in the case I will illustrate below. Yes, and I ...
Not necessarily, because love may be a basic metaphysical fact of the world, in which case it would not be designed, but it would simply be there. A d...
I view God's rebukes in the same light - he is rebuking people who think they know what they're talking about instead of being humble and admit to hum...
Well we've already gone over that, and I explained what the Unforgiveable Sin is, and also why it is unforgiveable. It is not because God will not for...
They are stupid, and they should be ashamed of themselves if you want to know the truth. They think they can know the mind of God :s Give me a break. ...
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