RE: Damned Catholics
January 26, 2011 at 4:34 pm
(This post was last modified: January 26, 2011 at 4:48 pm by dqualk.)
@Thor Yes God knows how my life will turn out before I am born.
What you are getting at is the problem of evil. I would begin a discussion about it with you but I feel that I could not adequately state it, or at least I cannot without a serious amount of work, so I am trying to avoid starting that discussion. Plus it would probably be helpful to read the bad as who have developed some interesting Theodicies. I suppose I could start a thread in the Christianity part labeled Christian theodicies... I may get around to it at some point. Or you could start one and maybe Ill comment on it to start a discussion.
@ Min
A valiant effort Minimalist. I am now an atheist becasue of your novel new arguement that I have never heard before!!!!!
not really... lol
This is called analogy and anthropomorphism. God is expressed in temporal terms. Why? Because otherwise we would not understand anything about Him, as God is Divinely Simple and infinite, and therefore our little minds cannot contain His Divine Simplicity. We see God through our own faulty lens, and then we describe Him and His "actions" the best way we know how, which is always insufficiently.
If you do not buy it that is your business and I do not blame you, I'm not mad at you, and I do not think that you are stupid.
ahem... oh and if you noticed I said nothing about free will
What you are getting at is the problem of evil. I would begin a discussion about it with you but I feel that I could not adequately state it, or at least I cannot without a serious amount of work, so I am trying to avoid starting that discussion. Plus it would probably be helpful to read the bad as who have developed some interesting Theodicies. I suppose I could start a thread in the Christianity part labeled Christian theodicies... I may get around to it at some point. Or you could start one and maybe Ill comment on it to start a discussion.
@ Min
A valiant effort Minimalist. I am now an atheist becasue of your novel new arguement that I have never heard before!!!!!
not really... lol
This is called analogy and anthropomorphism. God is expressed in temporal terms. Why? Because otherwise we would not understand anything about Him, as God is Divinely Simple and infinite, and therefore our little minds cannot contain His Divine Simplicity. We see God through our own faulty lens, and then we describe Him and His "actions" the best way we know how, which is always insufficiently.
If you do not buy it that is your business and I do not blame you, I'm not mad at you, and I do not think that you are stupid.
ahem... oh and if you noticed I said nothing about free will
