RE: On Hell and Forgiveness
September 25, 2018 at 11:29 am
(This post was last modified: September 25, 2018 at 12:31 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 25, 2018 at 11:10 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: It doesn't help that the Christian God has been defined as the greatest possible being if greatness itself has no objective basis.
Even if we grant an objective basis, we'll still run into the same sorts of troubles poly is describing. We can say that we're definitely talking about -something- specific when we use the term greater, but we're unlikely to find that the characters in magic books uniformly live up to that something even if we do.
The discussion steves trying to have is beginning to turn on internal coherence rather than basis or accuracy...which is amusing, since that's an issue of editorial skill, lol. God is the greatest because godmen defined the greatest as so and so and their god as fitting those things. This isn't entirely true, as a cursory glance of magic book makes perfectly clear.
Frankly, it would be more amazing if magic book was wholly, internally, incoherent. Many continuity compromises were made to preserve favored dogma, in any case. The grandaddies of all of them being the two borrowed ladders inherent to christianity - saddling itself with a canaanite wargod...and the assumption of pagan theological rationalizations.
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