I would appreciate if you could answer my other two posts too; the one about orthodox infant baptism and this one: The problem I find is the idea that...
That is what I say. You say, "God is God, therefore he can do whatever he wills". Does that mean that he can, just for some random impulse that we can...
"Your anxiety presupposes your desire to have it your way - your will be done. If you had no concern for yourself, because all your concern was for Go...
You say in orthodoxy that baptism etc is a symbol of something internal... But that sounds more protestant to me. I have heard that orthodox say that ...
The problem I find is the idea that truth must be beautiful. If I say, "christianity is probably true", meaning that God probably became incarnated in...
"Well we've already gone over those sections of Scripture though, and I've explained them. With regards to predestination and election, your question ...
But how can you stand being in a church where most people are hypocrites? And if you say that one must have the internal movements of the soul, why th...
When our moral character is shaped according to the dictates of a universal moral power, the question of “what kind of man should I be” or "how shall ...
Well in a sense yes... I consider Don Quixote as a perfect example of how we human beings live in delusions, both internal and external delusions, tha...
I also object to the sadistic christianity advocated by nihilists dressed up as christians such as John Piper, and moral monsters like John MacArthur....
"Because it's not based on Scripture or Apostolic Tradition - in addition it also makes little sense." Please explain to me how it doesnt make sense, ...
" No, I don't think so." But we cant say "this is evil" if we dont know evil at all, right? And this must have been the Case for Adam before the fall....
If God is so completely Other as you describe him to be, so impossible to understand even the slightest, then how are We in his likeness? And wasnt th...
"Well what are you when you're trying to make God in something that you can put in your pocket, that you can bound by your understanding, if not just ...
"It seems to me that you're seeking for a "god" who will fulfil your desires, who you can control, because He's so and so, because he's a good guy, et...
"Not because of this. You don't seem to get it. God is SUPREME - He doesn't need to ask you for permission! How can you even conceive of the absurdity...
Then every moral valuation is blasphemy in a certain sense if it is made by someone who stands in a true relationship with God and it would be unchris...
So then if a man uses his own limited reason etc, the faculties thay makes us intstunctively value what is good and evil (the very thing you criticize...
"I find it curious that Nietzsche out of all people did not cure you of your weakness which perpetually demands salvation as if you or anyone deserved...
According to thé Church yes, but then you must first also accept the Curch's truth claims (That it is infallible etc.), something Kierkegaard probably...
Universalism isnt about what you know Will happen, it is about belief. Nothing in christianity is about what you know. It is about that you trust in t...
My problem with christianity is that I dont find it Good news, because the fact that God even created a world that would unfold in this way and, accor...
"Sure, but a vice is a failure to love. The person who is cruel, fails to love" But if the Only true sin is failure to love, then the Only true virtue...
"Because we should pray and hope that all will be saved, we shouldn't wish anyone to be damned." True, but Kierkegaard did not Believe anyone would be...
when you say one is cruel and one is virtous; are you saying that one is in a way better than another? I side not with Aristotle but with Dostoevsky. ...
"Why does he wonder then? Wonder only makes sense if he doesn't understand how it will happen" Wonder means amazement. He obviously believes all Will ...
No he clearly says he even believes it, and his conviction of this belief is what awakens his deep wonder "But this is precisely the point. We have to...
Following the death of Denmark’s bishop Jacob Mynster, in 1854, Kierkegaard wrote this brief reflection: "What the old bishop once said to me is not t...
For an honest and good Christian view and standpoint on Nietzsche, I really recommend David Bentley Hart : https://www.firstthings.com/article/2010/05...
and to this one might add that christianity from the beginning tried to solve these problems But in the end its followers rejected suffering, rejected...
Here is Nietzsche on why christianity had for so long been the superior world view: "What were the advantages of the Christian moral hypothesis? 1. It...
Nietzsche's critique against Schopenhauer's final rejection of life had some very valid points. A pessimist is in the end a brother of the hedonist in...
"Yes, at least not in a Christian sense. He also said he aspires to be a Christian and greatly desires to be one, but avoided calling himself one." Ex...
Heidegger seems to possess all of Nietzsche’s conceit but none of his wit or talent for self-criticism. Heidegger himself seems to be filled with prid...
Nietzsche just as Dostoevsky was an exceptional psychologist and a great diagnostic of the times. Nietzsche's famous fable in The Gay Science of the m...
As Bentley Hart, the orthodox Christian theologian said: "Above all, Nietzsche understood how immense the consequences of the rise of Christianity had...
I see... Well even though I still firmly hold fast to Nietzsche's greatness, there is no doubt he went too far sometimes. But he often also said that ...
I thinked he hoped it but he admitted in the end that he didnt have what he would call faith. He was one with high demands on what it means to be chri...
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