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I have constantly claimed that God as proclaimed by traditional christianity appears to me as evil. That is; God of dogmas, God of traditional theolog...
August 08, 2017 at 20:28
"God is incomprehensible, BUT we do know that He is the standard of justice and truth" But 1. God is beyond Good and evil 2. What is justice and truth...
August 08, 2017 at 20:24
No I didnt. I said that it is pointless to reason and discuss things when all you say is true and Beautiful because you pretend and claim to defend Go...
August 08, 2017 at 20:18
Of course I dont respect and love the concept of the God of which most "christians" speak. The living God? No idea, I dont know if he exists.
August 08, 2017 at 20:15
"Why would I do that? I respect, love and admire God." What happened here? I was talking about me not you. If you misunderstand so gravely what I writ...
August 08, 2017 at 20:01
"It looks ugly to you, I don't see anything ugly in the unrighteous being punished by the Living God." Me neither. If it wasn't an unending punishment...
August 08, 2017 at 20:00
"You are projecting once again." Really? Here comes the psychologist again. Well then ... At least I have something in common with St Paul
August 08, 2017 at 19:58
"Of what use is this insult?" It wasn't an insult, it was praise.
August 08, 2017 at 19:56
"No I'm not. To say God is beyond reason isn't to say God is IRRATIONAL. Hence it's not meaningless at all. Beyond reason isn't the same as irrational...
August 08, 2017 at 19:55
Your thoughts are all over the place, and it's impossible to discuss like this. Please pick a specific subject/topic and let's discuss it." actually t...
August 08, 2017 at 19:54
"We don't understand what "eternal" means in "eternal hell". You seem to understand it so very well, the rest of us not so much." Who are we? Historic...
August 08, 2017 at 19:54
That is very selfish but so what? You invite me to it. And if you werent a typical Engineer in your dryness you would have understood that I am making...
August 08, 2017 at 19:52
The thing is that you claim, based on your tradition, that God actually does send people (according to Scripture the majority) to hell, while I claim ...
August 08, 2017 at 19:40
"Yes, but we do have access to revelation. You need grounds for questioning something, and such grounds are in this case missing." I would claim the o...
August 08, 2017 at 19:23
So? That is because you dont understand that Truth can be ugly. You are too short-sighted. Yet according to me you are the one who proclaims ugly trut...
August 08, 2017 at 19:21
"You misunderstand. God is incomprehensible, BUT we do know that he is the standard of justice and truth, for there is nothing higher than God. Theref...
August 08, 2017 at 19:03
"Why? You are judged based on moral considerations" Faith? Or Works? Or both?
August 08, 2017 at 18:58
"How can it be unjust when God is the very criteria by which justice is decided? :s So let's see, you're going to judge God for throwing anyone in hel...
August 08, 2017 at 18:56
"Yep. What's wrong with that? Have you not read what Jesus Christ Himself says?! Matthew 19:28" The historical Jesus or?...
August 08, 2017 at 18:52
"If you believe your own words with regards to hell to be true, then you at least intend to attack whom you perceive the real God to be." Very true! B...
August 08, 2017 at 18:50
It was not what the Church did, or mostly, it wasn't the reason they did what they did. It took then 400 years to admit Galilei was right for one thin...
August 08, 2017 at 18:47
"Sure, but your biggest problem is dealing with your anxiety. You will conquer your anxiety by being strong - by being okay with the idea of you yours...
August 08, 2017 at 18:42
"It was right for Galileo to be tried. He had absolutely no proof that the telescope, the new instrument which he used to make his measurements even m...
August 08, 2017 at 18:36
"The existence of the power of evil in the human heart and in human history is an undeniable fact." said Ratzinger in 2008. Well the popes would know ...
August 08, 2017 at 17:30
"I'm not quite sure Nietzsche is that great either. There's a lot of things he was blind to." I know you Believe so. I am not surprised, you are even ...
August 08, 2017 at 15:48
You said before that Nietzsche believed truth to be ugly... I claim that is what you yourself believe. And now you try to tell me to be strong enough ...
August 08, 2017 at 15:35
"And out of your own fear and repulsion and weakness you invent a morality which you use to judge God by, and condemn God, just because you lack the s...
August 08, 2017 at 15:31
"because you're not strong enough to accept the doctrine of hell, and that some, maybe even you, will be damned?" Even the word "damned" stinks of lie...
August 08, 2017 at 15:28
"Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the fooli...
August 08, 2017 at 15:24
"because you're not strong enough to accept the doctrine of hell, and that some, maybe even you, will be damned?" ... I would Love to hear you say tha...
August 08, 2017 at 15:21
"For example, you protest about eternal hell and say that it makes God evil, and that everyone should be saved." Never did I say that. But the opposit...
August 08, 2017 at 15:08
"How do you mean?" In terms of greatness, depth of thought, honesty etc. Nietzsche goes far beyond what Osho does, and Steiner just tried to grasp eve...
August 08, 2017 at 09:19
What do you mean on Nietzsche's level? These men belong to a different cathegory. It is enough to look at the quality of their prose
August 08, 2017 at 08:56
"but they are on Nietzsche's level." ?!?!?!
August 08, 2017 at 08:53
I guess you are right, you know much more about him than I do. I have just heard others talk about him and he sound like a "rich lazy people pleaser" ...
August 07, 2017 at 21:23
Are you seriously suggesting I would prefer Osho to Nietzsche? The Little I have read about and on Osho, he seems like a charlatan "You Mr. Beebs will...
August 07, 2017 at 21:05
How old are you if I may ask? Have you studied philosophy at University?
August 07, 2017 at 19:54
You can find that it is Paul and to some extent John who changed the hebrew understanding of trust proclaimed also by Christ, trust as openness to an ...
August 07, 2017 at 15:55
I dont like any arguments that obsesses itself with thinking in causes like that. I would rather call it one of the weakest arguments. And plus, what ...
August 07, 2017 at 07:51
I just need to put down some time to it since it Will take quite a long post to explain my situation properly
August 06, 2017 at 20:35
Very interesting post about capitalism being communism; it is a strong argument. So Marx wasn't as wrong as one might think... Regarding Paul, I agree...
August 06, 2017 at 20:34
"What have you done to be more precise?" I will tell you later!
August 06, 2017 at 19:03
Though our modern societies, which claim to be secular, are, on the contrary, governed by secularised theological concepts, which act all the more pow...
August 06, 2017 at 19:00
It depends. Mainly on God's intentions, of which I know not anything. Let us take Kierkegaard once: For Kierkegaard, one must go first from the aesthe...
August 06, 2017 at 11:32
"We don't know how much time we have left to live. You say you have 60 more years - how do you know" I said I MIGHT have 60 more years not that I will...
August 05, 2017 at 21:31
In what way is that so, that I rather be like them? What would you do if God said you were damned and in 59 years from now Will be thrown in to a Fire...
August 05, 2017 at 21:25
Without that which I call the internal movements of the soul, how can I cope with existence? I who am ready to accept christianity as true but am inca...
August 05, 2017 at 21:20
I agree again, but I ask you, what is God's moral law? Is it that which is found in the Old Testament?
August 05, 2017 at 21:13
"It was RIGHT for Abraham to lift up the knife to sacrifice his own son when God requested it and by faith believe that God would return him Isaac." I...
August 05, 2017 at 21:12
"God is Himself the Law." The law of the Old Testament?
August 05, 2017 at 21:06