(May 12, 2017 at 12:47 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: [quote='Aroura' pid='1551714' dateline='1494607263']
You both speak as if belief is a choice, and not a consequence.
(May 12, 2017 at 12:47 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: An analogy might help. You choose to enter a movie theater; seeing the movie is the consequence of that choice.
I didn't choose not to believe. I find it silly.
(May 12, 2017 at 12:47 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Similarly, contrition and repentance open you up to receive the Holy Spirit by means of the gospel.
But those suggest that you need to open yourself up to god, which implies that you already lean that way. I don't.
Let me give you an analogy.
You find yourself in a club where there are lots of men in backless chaps, but you are either aroused by them or your aren't.
You have to be "that way" inclined.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.