You are overstating things. The Gospels CAN be read as consistent with themselves and Christian theology. It just not necessarily the only reading. 3 ...
You don't think there can be essential properties in God because you don't believe in something above reason. From Aristotle to Hegel, great philosoph...
There should be threads on the Trinity on this forum because it is to be analyzed by philosophy by design. It doesnt matter if it corresponds to reali...
It's not crazy to believe God exists. Jesus might have been God, might have not existed, might have been evil, might have been a lesser god, or an inf...
I don't know what you mean about rituals. I don't do rituals. But it's a surprise you've read Aquinas considering what you say on this thread and othe...
Have you read Aquinas's treatise on the Trinity or read Scotian counters to some of his finer points? No. So your claim is like an algebra student cri...
Ye. I am Catholic in a way, culturally at least. I don't like when Christians try to prove their beliefs but if they aren't doing that then I'm one of...
God is the same as his power and his love and his justice and everything about him. He is one thing. That is what monotheism is about. The Father, Son...
That's not obvious. It sounds like your more a skeptic than I am The one we live IN. That is key. Do you appreciate how old 14 billions years is and h...
How much of Hume have you read? He wrote that causality applies within the universe but not necessarily to the universe as a whole. I used this logic ...
Principles that must apply to things on earth (such that we can rewind causes to find an origin) don't apply to the universe at large. Aka, Hume's the...
Einstein knew that space expands faster than light latter in his life. They had shown it. I was questioning the idea that they can logically follow th...
Einstein said in 1905 that the maximum speed of causality was the same as the speed of light in a vacuum. Then he found that space expands faster then...
What is the speed of light outside the universe? We know its speed within it, but if the universe turns inside out the speed of light changes. So the ...
You guys analyize the Trinity with logic instead of intuition intertwined with logic. The Trinity and incarnation are high philosophical ideas and sho...
False. You said I did not do that at all. I was talking about existentialism in response to the solipsist comment. And I clarified this before your re...
All my posts had a point. You and debate tactics, gee. You debate, you don't try to dialogue That's your opinion. You can't prove it's better than ano...
Yes I mistype sometimes and autocorrect does a poor job. My point about solipsism was that we shouldn't have a doubt about others' existence but inste...
Christians say Jesus had two separate consciousness, one divine and one human. The human one prayed to unite more with the divine consciousness. His p...
I do have a specific point and have not changed my views. We know certain elements have specific effects but other things can have this as well. So we...
My last remark is to repeat that scientists analyze rays from the sun and infer what's inside it. But it could be an unknown substance inside that giv...
If you find a document from ancient times that says Jesus rose from the dead, we can infer that there were many factors from back then that could tain...
Scientific thinking is very prominent, but any number of actions can produce a pattern that seems to indicate one specific series. We are all solipsis...
As it said, we can't know for sure what's in the sun nor what happened billions of years ago. Theories fit their predictions and predictions fit their...
As I understand Buddhism, the world is real but we hold it in existence by our desires. Transcending to Nirvana finds the true world behind the appear...
Praising science is founded on philosophy, a philosophy that is new to humanity. Billions of years can erase so much that we think what appears to hav...
Let me just add: Saying 1) that we can rewind the clock of causality billions of years is the same logic as saying 2) "we know this can power the sun ...
In my opinion science only knows how to make things and cure diseases. There is no way it can know what happened a million years ago from physics. The...
Immanence and panentheism are words that refer to the divine inside, or a least along side, everything. We face a destiny we can't understand presentl...
I think we really don't have any idea what "not existing" is since we exist and becoming nothing is the strangest concept a mammal can contemplate. So...
True. You defined God as energy and if the world is enchanted and mystical then to me that makes a lot of sense. Matter is the "form" energy takes. Fr...
Humans have two minds, one which the Indians call Brahmin and one they call Atman. It is a falsehood of Atman that true love is "for another" because ...
A decade after Galileo came up with his relativity, Descartes said that motion was prior to that which moves. This was the second step towards Einstei...
Mind is not necessarily a spiritual word. Soul is. "Soul" refers to the state of your soul is terms of ethics. For me "spirit" refers to the action of...
I think the English words "God" and "soul" are very important, although I don't believe in God. I think the words are key to understanding spiritualit...
Calculus uses infinite points to describe something that is also finite in the exact same respect. Lots of things in modern mathematics seems to contr...
Many statements we make have many meanings. Contradictions are not good unless brought ("sublated") to another level. If I am in a doorway, I am both ...
We don't allow all contradictions all at once but let them flow as thought handles them organically. Nothing in thought is ever left behind. Preserve,...
I do read Hegel but a contradiction is not resolved by forcing it into place. The puzzle finds its way together on its own accord by the laws of the w...
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