(March 18, 2019 at 7:55 pm)fredd bear Wrote:(March 18, 2019 at 7:49 pm)Peebo-Thuhlu Wrote: At work.
I think, Gae Bolga, that the Christian asserts their diety is 'All good'.
Though, how they can square that away with their diety also creating/instigating evil and suffering etc?
Yah, seems quite contradictory to me.
Funny, that in 2000 . That the problem of evil remains such an embarrassing paradox for Christians.
I quote Epicurus again, because I think he's pithy:
“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
― Epicurus .
(March 18, 2019 at 7:32 pm)Peebo-Thuhlu Wrote: At work.
Uhm.... given the dates... isn't it that the Christian's took inspiration from the classical Greek philosophers?
If they did I'can't think of any examples.
I don' want to be flippant, because I don't know. Not wanting it to be true is not good enough.
I'm open to any ideas, backed up with evidence.
Augustine of Hippo basically stole all his ideas from Plato. The whole idea of the soul comes from Greek philosophy and their concept of psūkhḗ, so much so that even the idea of Cartesian dualism is essentially a bastardisation of Platonic thought. Interesting to note that, like with excommunication, judaism didn't have a concept of a permanent soul until after the jews had to live in subjugation to christianity. Everything in catholic thought, and most of protestant thought derives from Augustine's larceny.
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