Then you should repent, otherwise you're damned. Or at least, for all we know you will be. It's still ultimately up to God. Dubitable. He would have t...
And perhaps not at all. Let me ask you a question: do you think the truth is capable of being exhaustively expressed in language? If you answer in the...
Grace and mercy are not offered once. They are continually offered, since God's nature doesn't change. God's nature is goodness itself, so God can onl...
Not by itself, no, for that would be Pelagianism. God wills that all men are saved, which initiates our salvation. But we are then free to accept or r...
No, an undisclosed reason and one that is undisclosable in the sense of not being easily communicable to other people, I would say. I don't see this a...
And they're probably wrong to, as it's just lazy and welcomes misunderstandings. I'm guilty of it for sure. Regardless, I'm going to stick with what i...
How do you know that? No reason is given that we know of. There is a reason, but it will not be revealed to everyone in this life, and to those for wh...
One has to agree on definitions before arguments can be made. If we don't agree on what words like "existence" and "non-existence" entail, then we won...
In some ways, this is a misleading dichotomy. One cannot exist without the other. In any case, you want to say that Orthodoxy has more thinkers who st...
You haven't shown to me that your point is correct. Of course Catholicism has mysticism. That's uncontroversial. But when asked to prove that Orthodox...
Dogmatically? To my knowledge, it has never done so and I see no reason why it should. It would first have to be clarified what the "the Catholic Chur...
Which is what? Non-existence? That has no value and you've never experienced it, so you can't compare it to existence. The only way to find out would ...
But this is absurd. Orthodoxy doesn't get to claim a pre-schismatic figure like Dionysius as solely its own simply on account of his being or writing ...
I will not budge from thinking your statement that Orthodoxy is somehow more mystical and apophatic than Catholicism to be false. If you try and come ...
Mine is Musician Angel (1520) by Rosso Fiorentino. I like the melancholy expression on the cherub's face and the fact that he's playing a lute. My sta...
Lol. Says you. Maybe they did. I will certainly be returning to them in my studies, but that doesn't discount the fact that, for me, Kant has provided...
About what? I still subscribe to transcendental idealism, if that's what you meant by "Kantianism." As for why I think it's right, that would require ...
I could swear you did. The contents are cloudy, but I can picture it in my mind. I care less about its utility than I do its truth. I would only have ...
Probably because local governments and police forces are, in part, implicated in such dealings or blackmailed. I want to say, though, that organized c...
Think you had a quote from him. I've seen this claim before. Do you know what sources you got this from or did you just reason to this conclusion your...
No more Witty or Schop I see. I'm surprised by Aquinas in their place. An Eastern Orthodox whose favorite philosopher is Aquinas is rather amusing. Ni...
Except it's not. No one can exist before they exist, so you can't force the non-existent to exist. This is a logical refutation of your argument, show...
"But I am aware of some that murmur: What, say they, if all men should abstain from all sexual intercourse, whence will the human race exist? Would th...
If by begging the question you mean the petitio principii fallacy, then I disagree. There are plenty of arguments for God that don't commit this falla...
Either that the individual who claims to be an agnostic fails to find arguments both for and against the existence of God convincing or that God's exi...
These are not parallel schools of thought. Some are -isms relating to moral positions, others to metaphysical positions, and some to both. I put other...
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