"But to say for example that you don't decide what you desire, and therefore you don't have free will (in the Christian sense) is a shameless strawman...
well of you call ny statements a strawman, then we might as well finish this discussion by saying something obvious: All metaphysical talk is a strawm...
"No, you don't control the general tendencies you or your mind has. But you can still choose to give in to them or resist them. For example, if you're...
"I think that we have the freedom of choice, but not the freedom to will our will." +1 This is 100 percent true. Though I would say "We most often hav...
No it was no strawman Schopenhauer addressed. How does earthquakes fit Into God's plan? Are they a result of the fall or just something God lets happe...
"He tried to come up with it? Don't kid yourself, Boheme, Eckhart, Pseudo-Dyonisyus etc. have already thought through that way before Berdyaev." I kno...
"Why is it immoral for people to die in an earthquake? I'd say that's amoral, but not immoral, for to claim it is immoral would be to claim that the e...
Why does he hide himself? Is he Good just because he says "I am God, and I say I am good "? You say "The fact that God knows how you will use your fre...
I said according to your view, it seems like you say "NO man is really important.", then what is the purpose of God's muppet show? One part of Christi...
To start with. I believe not in Free will. There, Luther was probably right. Secondly, saying "God is still God and you just a human " just contradict...
I would really appreciate if you read and commented on the article in the link I posted. So God thinks that it is better to live a short life with fre...
Besides, you accuse me of teaching horrendous things because I claim that benevolence is recquired towards all except victims. This is utterly false. ...
Try to be honest instead. You are incredibly biased. But I guess you understand something that I dont. I would Love to understand therefore. If I say:...
It seems like God's free choice. His knowledge about it and approval of creating the world that way means he wills it. So be wants People in hell then...
All results in the world, all actions and unfortunate destinies, must have been foreseen by him who made mankind, and who, in the first place, made th...
But did God not know he would become like that before the foundation of the world? Wasn't it God who made the first free choice when he created a bunc...
Vill du veta den stora skillnaden mellan Dostojevskij och de flesta kristna (Augustine och Aquinas ingår)? Dostojevskij found älskvärda trots deras "o...
No they are guilty and unguilty at the same time. That is what Dostoevsky really means; there is Only one true sin: The failure to love. There is no d...
Yes. All are guilty. But compare Dostoevsky 's understanding of that to the understanding of Augustine and Aquinas. It is vastly different. Dostoevsky...
The whole Court of law / juridical language of the bible, at least as understood by western Christianity is in itself against life and love IMO. I can...
Moral/immoral are basically words. The whole idea that there is some sort of list that contains "moral/immoral actions" is not even half of the whole ...
I guess you know the famous reply by Dimitri Karamazov when they asked him why he picked up a knife? "Sometimes one just picks up a knife without know...
okay. Then I would say that actions can in a sense be judged by its consequences and motives, but in the deeper Course of things, the majority of immo...
That is part of Nietzsch's critique against christianity. Its judgements are in the end not Deep enough. Perhaps God and Christ goes Deep enough (prob...
I will quote Nietzsche on Dostoevsky later, but among other things he praised him as the only psychologist who has taught him something. Who understoo...
Nietzsche 's solution wasn't to let the strong burn the weak but rather to not let the weak burn the strong anymore. Nietzsche isnt someone who says w...
That is true. Zossima is wonderful. So was Furst Myshkin. Ask Nietzsche if he agreed (he did). A Force of Nature, or a Force of God, cant help being w...
Nietzsche didnt speak about a strong man burning a weak. Rather he said that the weak, the herd, always wanted to burn the strong and thé wicked. Chri...
Just listen to Beethoven. One bar of Music there contains more moral and values than the whole of Aquinas oeuvre. Do you seriously suggest Beethoven w...
Yes. There are some who should be aloud to focus on his creative vocation above all else. Nietzsche was absolutely right. Nietzsche didnt really value...
If Buddha thought that the better way to seek Nd find God is to be quiet about him and let People find out for themselves, then quite obviously, Buddh...
Yes Nietzsche called himself immoralist in the sense of being against morality of the society. Against the kind of moral that tries to surpress the gr...
You don't understand Nietzsche if you call him immoralist. He just had much deeper understanding of morality than most. You know why he broke his frie...
Yes but how can one trust something that is completely incomprehensible not only in nature but in actions as well? In the old testament we find a God ...
I Will follow Your advice. Soon haha. I will try meditation and ignore Calvin etc. But first I really want the answer to the question how it is even p...
Now I am going to fly to another country and my seat is 13. I became a bit superstitious about it and then I read this post. Have I got a reason to be...
Thank you for a very instructive and thoughtful reply. I have heard of Bentley Hart and very much appreciated what I have heard from him. I will look ...
Hmm. Do you really believe that when Christ used all those horrifying and vivid images to describe hell, that all he meant was "'hell' is 'the depriva...
Now, I would love it if you could answer my earlier question; Does God foreknow my destiny? Did he foreknow it before he created the world? Or was he ...
Love and forgiveness is a much greater source of joy. You see how easy it is to be sadistic in christianity. "Hell is a source of joy for the blessed,...
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