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Well God prevented Abraham, not Himself, from breaking the Law in that case. I don't think it is coherent to say that God breaks the Law, for God simp...

Oh... I was thinking more with the man himself :P

Oh dear, I'm scared now :s :’( >:O

is it bad? O:)

Because God doesn't demand them that (therefore this premise would be false)? Human beings are bound by the moral law, and they will be judged by the ...

Incidentally, I think she may be right :-O >:O

Looking for a date son?

That's how I learned to do my current job, all by myself actually - so also true underdog >:O

>:O >:O

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greatly skilled? :P

>:)

For the same reason that good isn't just the absence of evil either :P . The fallacy there is that two different aspects of reality cannot be defined ...

Well, I'm actually a rightist, so no need for panic. Thorongil can keep the panic all to himself :P

Yes.

This is a philosophy of religion discussion... it's not placed in Ethics this topic, you know...

That's like asking why love pulls people together. It's just it's nature. But the true opposite isn't a complete absence, that's precisely my point. T...

Yes, why?

LOL! Goodnight :D

Which ones? :P That may be expensive X-)

I think Wayfarer has never really questioned his attitudes with regards to this. Apart from my last post which he has not addressed, it seems that he ...

>:) But banning me isn't instant, it takes laying the groundwork for it first, such as making sure you appear unbiased ;)

Opposite means contrary to it. If love is what brings people together, then its opposite isn't the mere absence of love, but rather hate, that which p...

I can see! And Baden seems to have taken the opportunity to try and appear unbiased >:)

Not only must it not be loving, kind, etc. but it must be the opposite of those. There's a subtle difference there. I can be unloving for example, wit...

In fact, even the above isn't very well said. Clearly the presence of X implies the lack of presence of everything else at that point in space and tim...

Agreed, but X isn't JUST the absence of Y.

Can we see red and white in the same place at the same time? Notice that the fact we can't doesn't tell us that white = the absence of red :P Not real...

No, because I don't think we can straight-jacket how God perceives. God can be angry, vengeful, jealous, distant as well as loving, kind, close to us,...

Nietzsche felt Spinoza was a kindred spirit at times, but I think that's merely an impression. If you look at their characters and what they wrote, it...

Nietzsche was a failed Spinozist, since he takes the fact that evil and good have no independent existence as meaning that they have no existence what...

For example, Spinoza would say that beating someone is definitely evil. But the evil isn't "in-itself" but rather must be defined in terms of you and ...

That's basically saying that they can't be defined in-themselves. They need to be defined in relation to, for example, the Law - or at any rate, somet...

The fact that the damned and the saved encounter the same thing is a necessity, for God is omnipresent isn't He? How could the damned escape God?! Is ...

No, he didn't say that, he just said they have no independent existence, not that they have no existence whatsoever. Christians know that good and evi...

Yes, exactly! And that fits perfectly with my conception of evil and good being defined in-themselves, and ultimately in relation to the Law (thus, as...

I don't think so. Regardless, I was referring to his methodological proceeding of defining everything in-itself rather than through another.

If we do that, then we end up in the conundrum of whether evil exists. If evil is non-being, then evil doesn't exist. So all your experience of evil m...

@"Thorongil" he didn't last more than 1 day after you asked >:O

It's too vague to agree or disagree with. It could be interpreted in a variety of ways. Some of these interpretations I would agree with, others I wou...

Would you say that you were more like a progressive or a liberal when you were young and have become more socially conservative over time as you aged ...

But can't the same be said about you? Can't it also be said that your own commitments with regards to this come out of your politics? I mean I've been...

Agreed.

Okay, that's all fine, I'm not questioning that. I'm rather interested to know if you ever considered that truth may be a "one true faith" kind of tru...

So is a philosophy forum not meant to be for people who are searching after the truth? What if this truth happens to be a one faith truth? :s I'm just...

Oh dear, they even use the same smiley face that's tied with the ellipsis. >:O

Ahh the unknown brother of Sam Harris! >:O

Yes, I can see that you can't abide it, but your inability to abide it doesn't mean that it's not true, which is what we should be discussing. The poi...

@"Erik", you should watch that video in Thorongil's post. It relates to what we were talking about before in the Post-Truth thread regarding philosoph...