RE: One sentence that throws the problem of evil out of the window.
November 7, 2017 at 11:51 pm
(This post was last modified: November 7, 2017 at 11:55 pm by Whateverist.)
(November 7, 2017 at 10:54 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Elephant in the room, you can derive God from his name in so many ways.
To do so in any way whatsoever would be absurd. Why not just yank god like a prize from a box of Cracker jacks?
(November 7, 2017 at 10:54 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: You can just assess love and it would lead you to God.
How about if I put a tax on peevishness, I'll bet that's as good a way as any to find god, right?
(November 7, 2017 at 10:54 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: You can asses evil and responsibility and it would lead you to God.
You can assess beauty and it would lead you to God.
You can assess value and praise, etc...
When your standard for justification is this low you're just, well ..
(November 7, 2017 at 11:47 pm)Khemikal Wrote: @Atlass
It's pointless to refer to the bible or what jesus says..thats not what a catholic sees as the final authority on the matter. Non sola scriptura. You want authority..you go to catechism.
Quote:1035 The teaching of the Church affirms the existence of hell and its eternity. Immediately after death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into hell, where they suffer the punishments of hell, "eternal fire."615 The chief punishment of hell is eternal separationfrom God, in whom alone man can possess the life and happiness for which he was created and for which he .Well lookey there, hell is eternal, and eternal fire...no less. Being in mortal sin at death, like being an atheist...is what get's you tossed in there...and I don't see anything about having been a rapist.
Eternal? That seems overly pessimistic. I don't see how the sin of atheism and all that