(May 1, 2016 at 7:24 am)Constable Dorfl Wrote:(April 29, 2016 at 9:00 am)Wryetui Wrote: I have some problems understanding your reasoning, if you allow me. "And the only important thing in your life is keeping an imaginary sky-daddy happy so you get to go to the good place after you die. And the only important thing in your life is keeping an imaginary sky-daddy happy so you get to go to the good place after you die.", " I have personally witnessed the misery and evil that this mindset creates. I have witnessed families torn apart by parents who believe that god will send them to hell if they don't disown their children. I have witnessed the fear of children, praying to be "good enough" so they will get into heaven instead of burning."
Can you explain to me the nature of these theologically wrong bolded prepositions? It is becoming clear to me that you do not, in fact, "hate this madness called christianity", but you have made an idea of what christianity is (in your head) and you are attacking theology based on your own idea, not the original one. Can you read this? https://blogs.ancientfaith.com/glory2god...kalomiros/
Simples, theology is wrong. It is an exercise in rationalising the irrational fears and imaginings of stone age and bronze age people. Religions and gods are human creations they reflect the nature of their creators.
"Religions and gods are human creations they reflect the nature of their creators.", I do not think you are completely wrong in this, you actually have a point, in my opinion. All the religions in this world reflect the desires of the humans worshipping them, for example, the greeks and romans who were so avid in war created a God called Marte (or its counterpart) to favor their desire of war, they saw the greatest force they ever knew, the climate, and gave it a name, Zeus, and so on with other so called deities. But what do you do when you find a God that is against human nature? How is Jesus Christ the reflection of the human nature? Human nature has a "natural" appetite for sexual intercourse and a strong sexual desire, but our God told us clearly: "Sexuality must only be for marriage, so know that everytime you feel sexually attracted to someone, and you indulge in that feeling, you are sinning, masturbation is unnatural, homosexuality is unnatural, zoophilia is unnatural, fornication is unnatural, adultery is unnatural, murdering by your own is unnatural, stealing is unnatural and so on...", what do you do when you encounter a God like this one, that goes exactly against "human nature" as we know it? In fact, He goes exactly according to human nature as it was created, pure, the human nature we have now is damaged by the sin of Adam and Eve.
Also, you are wrong, my theology does not proceed from Niceea, but from the very early moments of christianity. That is why we have the theology of St. Clement the Roman, St. Ignatius of Antioch, St. Polycarp of Smyrna, Papias of Hierapolis, Quadratus... and other hundreds of Church Fathers that were born even centuries before Niceea.
"Let us commit ourselves and one another and our whole life to Christ, our God"
- Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
- Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom