RE: Ask a Catholic
May 31, 2015 at 4:11 pm
(This post was last modified: May 31, 2015 at 4:13 pm by JuliaL.)
(May 31, 2015 at 12:32 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:It would help to establish your authority regarding what happens to consciousness when it goes away.(May 31, 2015 at 1:07 am)JuliaL Wrote: As one who knows where my immortal indestructible soul will spend eternity (or at least has a couple of options;)
Where did it go last night between ~11PM and 7AM this morning?
How would I know about last night? I was referring (as you know) to what happens after you die.
As it stands, you don't know what happens to your 'soul' during sleep. I have no reason to believe you have any better idea of what happens when consciousness goes away after death. Anybody can, and many do, claim such knowledge but they are mistaken, deluded or lying. You also.
(May 31, 2015 at 12:32 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:So, it's a mystery even according to your revelatory documentation.(May 31, 2015 at 1:07 am)JuliaL Wrote: What are you planning to do after counting all the grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth for the 300th time and have eternity left to busy yourself?
1 Corinthians 2:9
“No eye has seen, nor ear heard,
nor the heart of man conceived,
what God has prepared for those who love him”
I imagine you are trusting in the 'mercy of God' again that it will be something eternally lovely. Your quotation doesn't say that. Given the bipolar psychotic Abrahamic God, you should be careful where you place your confidence. He's got a history. I know you belong to a group that believes you're in for the good stuff. But He pulled the rug out from under the Hebrews more than once. Why do you think He won't again?
(May 31, 2015 at 12:32 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:Thanks, but no thanks. Catholic clerics have centuries of piling unsupported crap on piles of unsupported crap on unsupported holy writ to con the masses into supporting them. Limbo is just another bad try at wallpapering over the holes in the story. Certainly any worthy God would condemn the sophistry. Trust to the mercy of God? I expect I have a better chance of surviving judgement than the Vatican lawyers. Let's not talk pedophile priests here, it's been done to death. Let's talk about cultural imperialism of the inquisition. Auto da fe anyone?(May 31, 2015 at 1:07 am)JuliaL Wrote: Whatever happened to Limbo (the place, not the dance) and is it currently filling with gastrulae and blastulae? If not, where are all the unbaptised embryos going?
The existence of Limbo was a theological speculation about the fate of unbaptized children. The short answer is: we trust to the mercy of God. If you want a longer answer from the Vatican website, Google the following:
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat?