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Your way of thinking is contingent perhaps though, although it seems logical to you. Spiritual pursuits search for higher necessary knowledge and is s...
June 02, 2021 at 05:34
Godel's theorems prove that, in the form in which we think now, mathematics is either inconsistent or has infinite propositions that can't be proven. ...
June 02, 2021 at 05:29
What I've said only would make sense to someone who has thought spiritually
June 02, 2021 at 04:48
Through God they say we can know all truth through God himself as truth. So there won't be any abstract truth hidden but all understood under truth, b...
June 02, 2021 at 04:37
In Eastern Orthodox hesychasm they believe that the seat of the soul is in the belly button. They control the breath and the heart beat (as they pray ...
June 02, 2021 at 01:24
He can prove everything I imagine. He is logical perfectly atomized into simplicity, as theists might say. So 1) God's existence cannot be disproved, ...
June 02, 2021 at 01:15
My point is that God, if he exists, knows of and knows the proof of everything. In a divine way of course. If the mystics are right who say we will fu...
June 02, 2021 at 00:19
Because you don't understand his argument for God. First he says in the 3rd Meditation that he has an idea of a perfect being. Then he says the substa...
June 01, 2021 at 23:02
False. You don't know about theology Also, please explain the difference between the argument for God in the Third meditation and the one in the Fourt...
June 01, 2021 at 22:55
You misunderstood his third Meditation. He had two arguments for God. Your rationalism will fail you. God can do anything whatsoever and at the same t...
June 01, 2021 at 22:50
So Banno proved there is not God?
June 01, 2021 at 22:46
You're thinking in a line
June 01, 2021 at 22:45
That is the argument in the 4th meditation. In the 3rd one who says the idea of God is so perfect that we can't have an idea of it without it existing...
June 01, 2021 at 22:45
Prove that Descartes meant this then
June 01, 2021 at 22:42
I think he has a flawed argument. He get's into language games. Self-reference such as Russell's paradox is about how language can backfire. If we gav...
June 01, 2021 at 22:41
You believe God is contingent (contra Descartes) and perhaps don't understand God yet, so maybe your not at the place to discuss the Trinity. You thin...
June 01, 2021 at 05:31
Did i not say "for example"
June 01, 2021 at 05:18
Descartes himself said that God was necessary, eternal, and timeless. This is the highest being conceivable and Descartes thought it must exist a prio...
June 01, 2021 at 05:07
Yes and got a 1330 on the SAT
June 01, 2021 at 04:50
Been there, done that False. A teacher can sense where a student is going without going by the students exact words for example Every word And then yo...
June 01, 2021 at 04:50
Are you in high school?
June 01, 2021 at 04:36
Wittgenstein said life is lived as the flow and game of life. Language is the game of life. However, he said if lions could talk we couldn't understan...
June 01, 2021 at 02:50
Oh youre right, there is a 6th meditation. The one explaining pain and God's design. The Meditations was the first philosophy book I ever read
May 31, 2021 at 21:00
Well I've read otherwise and I know he went to Paris to discuss his ideas in 1642 with the intellectual elite. He wrote his physics book next and then...
May 31, 2021 at 20:58
Divine love is nauseating? Maybe. But Deism leads to atheism while the Trinity as an idea can withstand doubts. If someone believes in God it is most ...
May 31, 2021 at 20:50
Descartes wrote his five meditations and Replies to Objections in 1641 and published them the next year. Ive read them many times in addition to 1) Ru...
May 31, 2021 at 14:58
I've read Descartes's full work from 1642. He had dissociative problems. And how do you know God did not divest herself of power this morning? Is it p...
May 31, 2021 at 06:26
Your idea that God can lessen his power stems from not understanding the Trinity. Your god doesn t seem to love anyone while my God love each other (s...
May 31, 2021 at 05:33
You believe you are nowhere but have a super-powerful (maybe today totally powerless) alien watching over you. Then mustn't you believe than that you ...
May 31, 2021 at 03:48
Because we are en-souled bodies, soul forming the matter into the form human eye can see. We are in a social system on earth, where we relate to other...
May 31, 2021 at 03:36
This is not an argument. God is perfectly simple, we are not. Why? Because we are bodies in the world. The soul and the body are the same thing. I've ...
May 31, 2021 at 03:33
The Trinity explains how God has an equal (two actually) to love. Otherwise a simple God would be a supreme king like Allah instead of pure activity l...
May 31, 2021 at 02:23
Well then start your two arguments on this and how they differ from the way I put them and we will go from there
May 31, 2021 at 02:20
Souls exist in the world. This is what phenomenology proves. God doesn't have a location because he is MORE simple than a soul. He is on another realm...
May 31, 2021 at 02:13
Now you have a new argument. So far they are 1) One Gospel only talked about Jesus's divinity, so he couldn't be divine 2) Many religious sects claim ...
May 31, 2021 at 00:23
The Trinity makes sense because of God's utter simplicity. In humans the soul is always united to the body as its form. Immediately after death you fi...
May 31, 2021 at 00:02
I was arguing actually that you can't prove the story is consistent. You are saying that because three Gospels don't mention Jesus's divinity the reli...
May 30, 2021 at 23:57
What meds are you on or should be on? I try to talk ideas, it is you throwing arrogant shit everywhere. To me your theology sounds very hippie and no ...
May 30, 2021 at 23:23
Setting aside all that rubbish, I'll point out to you that humans have soul (life), reason as its power, and will is element mixed into reason so it c...
May 30, 2021 at 22:53
Your idea of God is anthromorphic still because human souls have parts while God's does not. Even calling God "she" doesn't mean God is not *perfectly...
May 30, 2021 at 22:38
That is their opinion and it's self-consistent. I am not saying it's true. I am saying you can't disprove Christianity from logic. Have many times hav...
May 30, 2021 at 21:30
You don't think with faith or pre-faith. Christians nowadays believed the apostles believed like they did and they and Paul converted thousands of peo...
May 30, 2021 at 20:43
Don't forget about Ernie
May 30, 2021 at 20:35
Yes I have. Christians believe that early believers already knew Jesus was God. If a priest is to give 4 sermons to his followers, why is it odd that ...
May 30, 2021 at 20:33
To a rationalist. Faith sees things differently
May 30, 2021 at 20:12
I just refuted that
May 30, 2021 at 20:12
Rationalists critique things that in reality they don't understand. I don't like how Christians try to prove their faith is true but they have every r...
May 30, 2021 at 20:11
They aren't stupid. They see things you don't. That's how life works. But your argument was that "you would uh think that all the Gospels would speak ...
May 30, 2021 at 20:04
Of course I didn't say that. Just because you believe only in reason, that doesn't make you reasonable. People who believe in things higher than reaso...
May 30, 2021 at 20:01
Christians believe the Trinity and Incarnation were originally truths of oral tradition
May 30, 2021 at 19:40