RE: Why did god create evil?
November 30, 2011 at 11:27 pm
(This post was last modified: November 30, 2011 at 11:28 pm by Epimethean.)
You are utterly incorrect that Ovid had no ability to read and understand the Greek philosophers. I am not sure where you think you are going with this, but Ovid was fluent in Greek as well as other major languages-as he had to be. You say you taught yourself Egyptian hieroglyphs. That has zero bearing here.
By the by, your contention of "iudex" meaning only "god" is violated by your own suggestion of allegorical defenses. You are seriously cherry picking and manipulating here. This subject material (philology and the Classical languages) is the stuff of my degrees. As for your "application" of Theagenes, it is more than a bit disingenuous, as the very same sources you used to get his name went on to say about him:
"All that he wrote is lost to contemporary history.Information about his life has been available in the existing documents written by his contemporaries,and of those of future generations,these having felt his influence."
Cut this shit out. You are taking both sides, then neither, then bouncing back and forth and none of it is compelling.
By the by, your contention of "iudex" meaning only "god" is violated by your own suggestion of allegorical defenses. You are seriously cherry picking and manipulating here. This subject material (philology and the Classical languages) is the stuff of my degrees. As for your "application" of Theagenes, it is more than a bit disingenuous, as the very same sources you used to get his name went on to say about him:
"All that he wrote is lost to contemporary history.Information about his life has been available in the existing documents written by his contemporaries,and of those of future generations,these having felt his influence."
Cut this shit out. You are taking both sides, then neither, then bouncing back and forth and none of it is compelling.
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