(December 27, 2014 at 1:07 pm)Lambert Wrote: Hi pocaracas, you are a good sport, and thank you for your reply.errr... ok, sort of...
My point was that a pair of opposites cannot be conceived to exist without the other and so it is not possible to be an atheist without denying to be a theist first.
A person that never hears about gods and beliefs of the sort never becomes a theist and is, by default, atheist.... although, I'd guess that person wouldn't be aware of such a label.
(December 27, 2014 at 1:07 pm)Lambert Wrote: And so then you can be a Catholic but you cannot be an acatholic without understanding what it means to be a Catholic. Of course you can be other than Catholic as generic protestant similar to those who walked away from the bread of life in John 6:66 as presented to them in John 6:56.I'd say you can be acatholic just by not being catholic. And you can not be a catholic even if you never hear of catholicism.
(December 27, 2014 at 1:07 pm)Lambert Wrote: You bring up too many things here for me to respond to in one post. For one, it is not possible for a Christian to have faith and have the mind of Christ as Christian. That is just a paradox and cannot be true.But a christian is simply a person who follows the teachings of Christ, or believes that said Christ died for their sins, or that he resurrected...
(December 27, 2014 at 1:07 pm)Lambert Wrote: And don't worry about my use of capitals. English is my second language and I use capitals for proper names.huh?
(December 27, 2014 at 1:07 pm)Lambert Wrote: Ok, and I was born in the South of Netherland where it likely still is against the law to put a wagon wheel on a post to attract a stork.Most everyone is catholic in the south of the Netherlands?... curious... I thought the proximity to Germany and the UK would have made you guys a bit more protestant.
Anyway... I'm from Portugal, so there... english is also my second language!