RE: Problems understanding naturalistically the beginning of the universe
May 4, 2016 at 12:02 pm
(May 4, 2016 at 7:07 am)Mudhammam Wrote: Here's a few questions: Do you believe that your God is ontologically and morally perfect? If so, how can he have degraded himself by creating a world such as ours, which is most certainly neither? Further, what benefit could he derive and what lack could he--a perfect being--fulfill, which wasn't already supremely met in his loving relations understood by the mystery of the Trinity? Finally, how do you justify his maintaining the majority of people who have ever lived in a state of eternal torment because they fail to believe the right propositions (allegedly) about certain cruelties inflicted on an obscure first century figure?Yes, I believe that God is perfect (even if the word perfect falls short do describe Him and doesn't comprehend all that God is). You are wrong, he did not degraded Himself by creating a world like yours, this is just absurd. Our world has the potentiality to become perfect by us, by transfiguring it. Our world was perfect but the Ancestral Sin of Adam and Eve brought death and corruption into it, and was ultimately Him who ent His Son so that His divinity can unite to our humanity in His person so we can be divinely transfigured.
I did not understand this part: "Finally, how do you justify his maintaining the majority of people who have ever lived in a state of eternal torment because they fail to believe the right propositions (allegedly) about certain cruelties inflicted on an obscure first century figure?"
"Let us commit ourselves and one another and our whole life to Christ, our God"
- Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
- Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom