RE: Ask a Catholic
May 31, 2015 at 4:13 pm
(This post was last modified: May 31, 2015 at 4:23 pm by Randy Carson.)
(May 31, 2015 at 3:30 pm)pocaracas Wrote: RC... Roman Catholic... Also, remote control... Curious... I'm still waiting for your musings on what I wrote over a week ago...
My apologies...what post # specifically?
(May 31, 2015 at 4:11 pm)JuliaL Wrote:(May 31, 2015 at 12:32 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: How would I know about last night? I was referring (as you know) to what happens after you die.It would help to establish your authority regarding what happens to consciousness when it goes away.
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.
God has spent a fair amount of time informing us of what happens after death.
Not so much about what happens while you are asleep.
It's the former that you should be most concerned with. So, yeah.
Quote:(May 31, 2015 at 12:32 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: 1 Corinthians 2:9So, it's a mystery even according to your revelatory documentation.
“No eye has seen, nor ear heard,
nor the heart of man conceived,
what God has prepared for those who love him”
The purpose of the phrasing is to say that what an infinite God has prepared for us is BEYOND what we can comprehend.
Quote: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?
Well, I suppose that if I were a cynic, I might consider that possible. So, I can either ignore God now, and guarantee my eternal damnation or believe what God has said about the afterlife and deal with any potential "rug tugs" later.
Either way, that has to be better than simply bee-lining straight into hell.
Quote:(May 31, 2015 at 12:32 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: 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: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.
Show me some of that. Or are you merely asserting it to be true? If there is soooo much evidence, you ought to be able to demonstrate this to me easily enough.
Quote: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.
Let's talk about the facts of all three of those examples. Or would you really just rather cling to your ignorance so that you don't have to deal with the implications of the truth?
