(July 24, 2012 at 12:06 pm)MysticKnight Wrote:(July 24, 2012 at 12:19 am)CliveStaples Wrote: I don't understand the "God would want you to be honest to yourself" thing. God wants child molesters to be child molesters?
I don't understand your analogy.
Suppose that you're quite an evil person at your core. If God wants you to be honest to yourself, then you must act authentically to who you are at your core.
But I don't think that's right. If you're quite an evil person at your core, wouldn't a good person--divine or otherwise--want you do choose to be different? To care more for others, etc.?
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”