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In: Evil = Absence of Good => A Grave Error?  — view comment
I would appreciate to hear your reply later and see what you mean by agreeing with the fathers (which I guess an orthodox is ALMOST forced to do?). Yo...
August 13, 2017 at 11:03
In: Evil = Absence of Good => A Grave Error?  — view comment
What is meant by a natural or moral law from God? Look at the nature... We know the Church Fathers(most of them) were pathetically wrong in claiming t...
August 13, 2017 at 07:51
In: Evil = Absence of Good => A Grave Error?  — view comment
So I still just ask simply, like a child to God if I met him: "Why do you exist?"... What would he answer?(I am not counting on an answer from you"
August 12, 2017 at 19:52
In: Evil = Absence of Good => A Grave Error?  — view comment
No I am not assuming that, I am just asking God something which I can't understand... You see, it is hard to grasp the idea of something uncaused and ...
August 12, 2017 at 19:41
In: Evil = Absence of Good => A Grave Error?  — view comment
But what is the cause for something uncaused? Does God know why he is? No reason you say? Is that perhaps why he needed to create? ;)
August 12, 2017 at 19:38
In: Evil = Absence of Good => A Grave Error?  — view comment
Yet though, does he know why he is? If he has a conscious mind, if He Is He Who Is...
August 12, 2017 at 19:33
In: Evil = Absence of Good => A Grave Error?  — view comment
I haven't looked up Jean Luc Marion... I will though! Thanks! Well, so if I asked God; "Why do you exist?", would he then answer "Well... In a sense I...
August 12, 2017 at 19:28
In: Jesus or Buddha  — view comment
That is not true of John MacArthur.
August 12, 2017 at 19:25
In: Evil = Absence of Good => A Grave Error?  — view comment
I know you are joking, but seriously haha... What would he answer? He can't stop existing and there isn't a point where he didn't exist... So... Does ...
August 12, 2017 at 19:23
In: Evil = Absence of Good => A Grave Error?  — view comment
Would God be able to answer someone if someone asked him; "God, why do you exist?"
August 12, 2017 at 19:20
In: Evil = Absence of Good => A Grave Error?  — view comment
good post
August 12, 2017 at 19:19
In: Evil = Absence of Good => A Grave Error?  — view comment
. "That's also why we're judged by the Law." By the Law here, do you mean how we have treated our neighbour, mainly if we have clothed the naked and v...
August 12, 2017 at 19:17
In: Evil = Absence of Good => A Grave Error?  — view comment
"No, the actions wouldn't be considered good. Remember that with Abraham, he didn't believe God was commanding him to do evil, for he believed in his ...
August 12, 2017 at 19:15
In: Evil = Absence of Good => A Grave Error?  — view comment
"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...
August 12, 2017 at 19:12
In: Jesus or Buddha  — view comment
Yes I see what you mean, but it certainly is true that these leaders either knowingly or unknowingly try to invoke this kind of feelings of shame.
August 12, 2017 at 19:00
In: Jesus or Buddha  — view comment
Ugh... I really have problems with that guy's understanding of things
August 12, 2017 at 18:58
In: Evil = Absence of Good => A Grave Error?  — view comment
"No it wouldn't. This is precisely the difference between creature and Creator. I have no right to destroy God's creation, for it is God's, not mine."...
August 12, 2017 at 18:55
In: Evil = Absence of Good => A Grave Error?  — view comment
"What's the problem with this? God is God, He's not a human being. I find this highly incoherent, trying to judge God by the very Law (which you call ...
August 12, 2017 at 18:53
In: Jesus or Buddha  — view comment
Based on my own experience with American Protestantism and their leaders like John Piper, John MacArthur, etc. I must say that I agree with you here t...
August 12, 2017 at 18:45
In: Jesus or Buddha  — view comment
"This is a valuable insight; I think you have the key here already, within all of your trepidations and frustrations. How could personhood be the high...
August 12, 2017 at 18:03
In: Who do you still admire?  — view comment
"There is a tension between life-affirming optimism and life-denying pessimism that Christianity has never fully resolved. It's witnessed in the books...
August 12, 2017 at 17:11
In: Evil = Absence of Good => A Grave Error?  — view comment
I dont agree with Good and evil being opposites like that. That is Only how they appear to us
August 12, 2017 at 13:21
In: Evil = Absence of Good => A Grave Error?  — view comment
I see! I personally was attracted to the view of Isaac of Nineveh, and of Buddha. But I would admit that Isaac's view doesnt seem very biblical.
August 12, 2017 at 13:04
In: Evil = Absence of Good => A Grave Error?  — view comment
"Spinoza was a virtue ethicist, Nietzsche an immoralist" I know. But if you ask Berdyaev about what Nietzsche was, he would say (in fact he did say th...
August 12, 2017 at 13:02
In: Evil = Absence of Good => A Grave Error?  — view comment
Anyway, would you agree with Isaac of Nineveh's view? Or why not Buddha's view?
August 12, 2017 at 13:00
In: Evil = Absence of Good => A Grave Error?  — view comment
Okay I see, Perhaps you are right here about Spinoza. I only know that Nietzsche found Spinoza to have basically understood what "evil" is... And I ha...
August 12, 2017 at 12:59
In: Evil = Absence of Good => A Grave Error?  — view comment
And to be honest with you, dont you think that this definition of evil(Spinoza's) is a bit similar to Nietzsche's, just that Nietzsche took it even fu...
August 12, 2017 at 12:57
In: Evil = Absence of Good => A Grave Error?  — view comment
The question is, does God perceive all in the same way? That is, does he embrace the damned and the saved with the same love, as Isaac of Nineveh thou...
August 12, 2017 at 12:55
In: Evil = Absence of Good => A Grave Error?  — view comment
What it seems to me like Spinoza says, is that neither good nor evil are real, intrinsic properties. Instead, goodness or evil are concepts we employ ...
August 12, 2017 at 12:53
In: Evil = Absence of Good => A Grave Error?  — view comment
Well then you and I possibly agree here I think. If I have understood you correctly that is...
August 12, 2017 at 12:51
In: Evil = Absence of Good => A Grave Error?  — view comment
Yes exactly, so according to Spinoza Good and evil are not intrinsically real.
August 12, 2017 at 12:50
In: Evil = Absence of Good => A Grave Error?  — view comment
Well, werent you the one who claimed that hell is just a different perception of God, where one suffers instead of feeling bliss? Despite the fact tha...
August 12, 2017 at 12:47
In: Evil = Absence of Good => A Grave Error?  — view comment
"thereby denying the independent reality of evil." Denying an independent reality of evil is quite a Christian thing; Augustine denied it, and many ot...
August 12, 2017 at 12:43
In: On perennialism  — view comment
"Why do you think Christian history being bloody would preclude Christianity being true? And I'm not even claiming Christianity is true here, for the ...
August 12, 2017 at 11:06
In: On perennialism  — view comment
And to this comes more of her quotes; free to read if you want. I love them: "Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that...
August 12, 2017 at 10:37
In: On perennialism  — view comment
And regarding Simone Weil on Truth: "It seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so ou...
August 12, 2017 at 10:19
In: On perennialism  — view comment
Sorry for a Little bit off topic, but how would you view Simone Weil's view on justice quoted below? "Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another ...
August 12, 2017 at 10:17
In: Who do you still admire?  — view comment
"As Agustino is fond of saying, those in heaven experience the fire of God's love as bliss and those in hell as torment" This view is IMO the only pos...
August 12, 2017 at 06:50
In: Who do you still admire?  — view comment
"I do actually think it's morally permissible, but I'm less comfortable viewing procreation as a positive good in itself. In other words, just because...
August 12, 2017 at 06:43
In: Who do you still admire?  — view comment
Yes I apologize...
August 12, 2017 at 06:14
In: Who do you still admire?  — view comment
"The permissibility of meat eating and, despite my changing views on the topic, procreation." Interesting. You dont think procreation should be permit...
August 11, 2017 at 21:50
In: Who do you still admire?  — view comment
Sounds very good and in My view admirable. I admire the ability to follow that way that you seem to so, and to be capable to do What Aristotele said. ...
August 11, 2017 at 21:42
In: Who do you still admire?  — view comment
"Hmmm - the mystical writings is what I would recommend. Like these: Cloud of Unknowing - By Unknown Mystical Theology - Dionysus Theologia Germanica ...
August 11, 2017 at 20:46
In: Who do you still admire?  — view comment
Yes you are correct. But the question remains if it is true. You almost sound like Christian or like you Believe in it. So if I May ask; why arent you...
August 11, 2017 at 20:45
In: Who do you still admire?  — view comment
"This would be where my comparison fails, yes. It's difficult to place "profundity" on a scale, and so we're now left with comparing subjective impres...
August 11, 2017 at 20:43
In: Who do you still admire?  — view comment
One must also take into consideration, that if the religious texts of India (now I mean Baghavad Gita and The Upanishads) are possibly more stimulatin...
August 11, 2017 at 20:19
In: Who do you still admire?  — view comment
I would love it if you could give me some tips on Works by Christians that reaches the level of the upanishads according to you. I must also say that ...
August 11, 2017 at 20:08
In: Who do you still admire?  — view comment
Also true, which is then probably why God had to be incarnate. But so much of the stupidity done in the name of christianity(even though this may not ...
August 11, 2017 at 20:05
In: Who do you still admire?  — view comment
Yes I agree. Or at least more geniuses known. But I can't find much in the Christian tradition that reaches the level of the upanishads in profoundity...
August 11, 2017 at 19:59
In: Who do you still admire?  — view comment
"A cleverly ambiguous reply!" I know. That was my intention ;)
August 11, 2017 at 19:38
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