RE: Hindu hell
January 31, 2019 at 5:49 am
(This post was last modified: January 31, 2019 at 5:49 am by Belacqua.)
(January 30, 2019 at 5:50 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: I dismissed your claim that the platonic god concept was the christian god concept, that depending on a particular shaman they were nearly indistinguishable. They are not, regardless of ones shaman. I dismissed it because it simply isn't true.
There are of course differences between what non-Christian Platonists and Christians say about the Form of the Good. Non-Christian Platonists of course deny that the Good could ever incarnate as a person. Then there are differences about, for example, whether the world has a temporal beginning, though you'll know from Augustine that this difference can be reconciled.
At any rate, the books I pointed you to will make it clear that the Christian God is nothing like the Platonic demiurge, and far more like the impassible Good which the Platonists describe, in the minds of the theologians. I understand that you are basing your version on what you've heard from Christians. Again, if you'd like to read the version that Augustine and the other theologians believe in, including Dante, the texts I named will get you started.
