CATHOLIC GENERAL
Ask question, give answers, be kind to one another, and above all assist one another in living the virtuous life.
>OVERBIN, which is still in progress
http://pastebin.com/NVcvpAEP
>Remember that you can donate money to help the Assyrian Christians picking up arms to defend themselves and fight off ISIS.
http://www.restoreninevehnow.org/
>IN THE NEWS
Pope's family synod: No changes, but everything has changed
http://news.yahoo.com/popes-family-synod-no-changes-everything-changed-182929101.html?soc_src=mediacontentstory&soc_trk=tw
As a barrier goes up dividing Jews and Palestinians in Jerusalem, more deaths ensue in Israel
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/As-a-barrier-goes-up-dividing-Jews-and-Palestinians-in-Jerusalem,-more-deaths-ensue-in-Israel-35628.html
Texas cuts Planned Parenthood from Medicaid
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/19/politics/texas-planned-parenthood-medicaid-cuts/index.html
Hajj pilgrimage: more than 700 dead in crush near Mecca
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/24/mecca-crush-during-hajj-kills-at-least-100-saudi-state-tv
Also, have some solid modern Christian music and music with Christian themes. All from different artists and different styles. These are some recommendations from /mu/ and anons here. It's in no way comprehensive though.
>Marvin Gaye's "God is Love"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA7C815I104
>Om's Pilgrimage Album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK6wJUNirbs
>Sufjan Steven's Seven Swans Album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVkgtdAWLGo&list=PLZqsyBiYZFQ3ErFCewScrmeG9xfsPI8ga
>mewithoutyou - Sun and Moon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mor7syiTSE
>Young Oceans - ONLY YOU (TOKEN MAINSTREAM ADDITION)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imEvd1ck4fs
>Bobby McFerrin's Joshua
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DRketdk07o
>Psalter's Magnificat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfOrC827FKg
>Janelle Monae's Victory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ6wkOO_MEA
>Johnny Cash's God's Gonna Cut You Down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht7mxF9XZiA
Here is my usual hymnal selection
>A nice Latin hymn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRi1GDoaQu4
>A nice Coptic hymn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL1lxH7s3Cw
>The Lord's Prayer in Swahili, done in song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJiHDmyhE1A
>Hail Mary in Latin, done in song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihNVhFA_X3I
>Hallelujah Chorus done suddenly in the public
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp_RHnQ-jgU
>Quality Icelandic hymn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4dT8FJ2GE0
Not today, /pol/?
Well that's disappointing.
>>54045439
>>54045698
Archdiocese of Galveston Houston Reporting
Just started day 2 of no fap
>>54045953
We live after all. Howdy. Good luck to you, man.
>>54046078
Got any tips?
Also I need some scripture on anger
>>54044843
If I become a papist can I fuck little boys or is that frowned upon?
Will you be united with you're waifu in heaven?
>>54044843
How do you diffuse situations where liberals basically try to kill you for opposing something they like?
tbh you cant convert these people. Especially with a DUDE WEED majority
>>54044989
No Skillet? Ok.
>>54046501
> implying
http://shoebat.com/2014/05/06/sexual-abuse-protestant-churches-catholic/
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/29/protestants-abuse-catholics-methodist-church
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/29/protestants-abuse-catholics-methodist-church
>>54046630
Skillet is shit m8
>>54046508
>Will you be united with you are waifu in heaven?
What?
>>54044843
I would like to know if many Polacks don't support the current Pope. If so what can a Catholic do?
>>54046272
http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/52328953/#52331939
As for scripture:
Ephesians 4:26-31
Proverbs 29:11
James 1:19-20
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_5:44
>>54046501
Frowned upon, sinful, and damaging to yourself and others.
>>54046583
The way I was raised in evangelization but to evangelize by example. Basically be witness and testament to the value of Christian teaching and that will work wonders in itself. It would be simply people catching the triumph over sin.
Important is to grasp your view precisely, as some people screw up Catholic social teaching in some things.
Something specific you wish to discuss?
>>54047016
Many /pol/ Catholics are mixed on the pope and the traditionalists are against him and more conspiracy tier at times.
>>54046508
I'm discerning with the Congregation of the Marian Father of the Immaculate Conception. I want to be a priest in their order. I recommend you all look them up. Super orthodox, awesome devotions, really interesting mission. Good stuff.
Anyone else ever felt called to the clergy?
>>54047222
>implying mai waifu is a thoughtless dogmatic drone
>>54047166
Cool thanks m8
>>54047166
>Something specific you wish to discuss?
Well I live in secular socialist hell hole that is Hongcouver.
And if you disagree with ANYTHING they believe you don't make many friends
>constant asking who I would vote for
>attempt to avoid situation
>Constant irate yelling about democracy and why I should vote
>Say conservative
>legit looked like they wanted to behead me on the spot
But this happens with the faith too.
>"going to the pride parade anon?"
>"no im busy"
>"Oh well you should go because etc etc."
>he notices the cross on my neck
>"Oh anon, you christian?"
>"Ya roman catholic"
>The dude spent the next 10 minutes screaming at me.
Im not even confrontational but if you say ANYTHING against them they try to kill you.
To put it into context im in university so there's that.
>>54047362
Sad times when we agree persecuted again
>2015
>christian
kek
>>54047501
I think the funniest part though is they then say they are more tolerant than anybody else.
>>54047501
Are*
Thanks phone
>>54044843
And with that I gotta go to work tomorrow, so I'm going to sleep
I'd participate in your threads allot more if you made them earlier in the day
Anyway night Catholic bros
>>54047575
>falling for the bait articles
>>54047575
>a God with all power
> all knowing
Seems legit
Take it away boys
>>54046859
You're waifu. It isn't hard to understand anon.
>>54047222
Truth. I have actually become closer to God because of mai waifu. We talk together about the bible in my dreams. I always get kind of sad when I am about to wake up but she says not to worry and assures me that she will be waiting for me in heaven.
Should I consider that a sign from God? Or is it just a dream?
Just recently started getting involved with my campus' Catholic Student Center. It's amazing what a community like this can do for a person. Praying for all you brothers.
>>54047245
From time to time, though I am the worst as a public speaker. I hear that being interesting in monasticism after reading The Seven Storey Mountain is simply cliche but I suppose I'm not very original.
>>54047362
>I'm in university
That makes sense now.
Well shit. I'm not quite sure. It would be easier if I know the situation more clearly (their complaints and such) but with what i know I can only say to live the Christian life despite. This, in itself, can diffuse many situations. Take the /pol/ video of that blonde atheist going crazy over that sign-carrying Christian. By the atheist being the key aggressor and the christian simply standing there being normal sympathy lies on the christian for many bystanders. Now imagine if that christian was to be loving and living the normal Christian life of charity when that goes on. It makes the atheist position of seemingly righteous anger simply hard to pull. They forget to love even their enemies and I wouldn't recommend you make the same mistake. Surely you're conservative because you support their views and you can defend them but despite that try to drill in the lesson to them to love all people despite their differences. Surely there is more to friendship than whether you agree to the same solutions to social issues or not. Remind them of that. You discuss the issues themselves on your time.
As for social issues, I'd recommend looking into Catholic Social Teaching if you are not big on it already.
>>54047628
It's cool, man. Have a great night.
>>54047501
That's not persecution. It's not even a slap on the wrist. That's just people disagreeing with you the poster. Free speech means that we have a right to tell the other person that their beliefs are insane, backwards, and make you an inferior human being. If someone exercises that right they are not persecuting you, they are being rude which may or may not be necessary ruddness.
Getting your feelings hurt is not persecution that's how fucking SJW think. Bohoo.
>>54048515
Thank you for the advice.
But in many cases progressives have as much of a "convert or die" mentality as Muslims do but don't have the balls to shoot you.
>>54048638
That's actually a sound comparison you could make to make your case.
>>54048638
They just have the government corral everyone else, such that anything that happens that they don't like is punishable by violent government force.
It's the same thing.
when is the next apocalypse?
>>54044843
FUCKING POPE WORSHIPING SCUM
>>54049131
Eventually.
>>54049131
No clue.
>>54049185
At least you bumped the thread.
>>54044843
What's your opinion on orthodoxy?
I'm Atheist and I laugh in your general direction! Imagine handicapping yourself educationally! GOD isn't real you fucking child! Grow the fuck up.
Richard Dawkins has already disproved religion! How about getting a real education and fashion sense instead of walking around in your dress preaching about a false GOD!
To be honest, I can't believe religious people still exist. Richard Dawkin has disproved religion so many times in intellectual debates (not that you know what that means), that it's a shock you haven't all committed suicide.
>>54049312
THIS! SO MUCH THIS!
>>54049312
at least someone on \pol\ is educated LOL!
>>54049312
You're absolutely right.
>2015
>Believing in a god
HA!
>>54049312
WHY ISN'T EVERYONE ON POL LIKE YOU?
>>54049312
Hello sir! I am also educated, want to discuss evolution together?
>>54049312
Most religious people are unemployed anon.
>>54049312
>>54049325
>>54049342
Forgot your proxy fag
>>54049312
I don't agree with leddit upboating but we need to upvoat this
>>54049312
You're so fucking right
Bing bong.
>>54049312
I can't imagine being religious in this day and age.
>>54049312
>>54049325
>>54049342
>>54049355
>>54049369
>>54049394
>>54049418
>>54049431
Here are the replies you ordered. Please stop.
>>54049312
HURR LOOK AT ME I AM A STOOPID RELIGIOUS HAHAHAHA!
>>54049312
uPVOTE
>>54049485
Laughed harder than I should have
>>54049312
/pol/ is full of idiot religious cucks.
>>54049528
I know, but I didn't think it was this bad.
>>54049539
You do now my fellow anon!
>>54049485
>Hurrr look at meeee im educatid and write in caps making christians for a laugh
Kill yourself faggot.
>>54049280
Generally I'm partial to it in that the serious differences deal little with the salvation of individuals. All the issues that split Orthodoxy and Catholicism are related to church structure and very minor theological issues. I hold that they are wrong in their differences, of course, but that their differences do not spoil the good they do have. There are many brilliant minds and good people in Orthodoxy despite their issues.
>>54049312
At least you're bumping.
>>54049551
Yeah, thanks to you.
xD
>>54049578
Do you protest against churches in your area too?
>>54049604
Yes I do! Good to see a fellow freedom fighter in this cancerous thread
So Canada's new Prime Minister is a Roman Catholic, he's called himself "devout" before.
But get this, he's totally pro-abortion, and he banned pro-lifers from his party.
All the while he talks about how bad it is to require Muslim women to remove their niqab when swearing the citizenship oath.
His cardinal once wrote him a strongly worded letter.
If the hierarchy had some bones he would be excommunicated, or at least barred from communion. But his father (the one who brought in abortion) was given a Catholic funeral in the best church in Canada.
The Catholic pro-life movement in Canada is going to face a lot of opposition coming up. They have a traitor PM, and a hierarchy who won't stand up to him.
I'm honestly a little happy. The Church here needs some persecution like our brothers and sisters around the world. It will clean out the chaff and we can start building again after.
>>54049636
Absolutely anon. I can't imagine allowing more churches in my area. I'd sooner have mosques!
>>54049564
>I hold that they are wrong in their differences
And let me guess - that'd be because of your commitment to dogma?
>>54044843
I wish to convert, but need evidence that the Catholic church is the one holy and true church of God.
I am not sure what is more particularly convincing about Catholicism as opposed to Eastern Orthodoxy, Protestantism or even Gnosticism.
Please state your case.
>>54049658
I don't think I'd rather either out of choice! xD
>>54049672
>I wish to convert, but need evidence that the Catholic church is the one holy and true church of God
There is no 'evidence'. They just assert they are.
>>54049687
>>54049658
>>54049636
>>54049604
>>54049578
You atheists are worse than vegans.
>>54049757
I'm vegan
>>54049757
Not vegan but want to be. Fuck off you ignorant drone
>>54049790
Holy fuck! me too
>>54049790
Oh god. Can you be any more annoying?
>>54049757
Vegan and proud
>>54049790
>>54049807
>>54049820
BROFIST VEGAN BROS! XD
>>54049312
>all those replies to yourself
>>54049312
You know it's fucking refreshing when another britbro is a militant atheist.
I stand with you
>>54049312
Almost one of a kind in this shitstorm of a country
>>54049312
You idolise Dawkins too? Nice man
Which one represents Matthew?
>>54049807
>ignorant
Im not an atheist but nor am I devout.
You on the other side consider yourself educated and smart just because you're an atheist although there is as much proof that God exist as there is that he doesn't. Basically you're the same thing as devout christians only you're more annoying. The vegans of religion.
>>54049312
Imagine being religious in 2000 + 15
>>54050001
>being this fucking stupid
Religiouscucks
>>54050001
Is this religious dude serious? Fuck off back to church you mug
Also samefagging is pathetic.
>>54050001
The worst part is that you actually believes the shit you're saying
>>54050051
You didn't even read it, right?
>>54050001
There's always stand firm religious dudes out there. Unfortunately for you, you're one of them.
>>54050062
Samefag? We just all dismiss religion with logic.
>>54050086
Any arguments?
>>54050062
Surprised when there's more than 1 militant atheist defending the white race?
>>54049709
>>54049672
Pretty disappointing honestly, the thread continued without so much as a serious reply or even the vainest attempt to justify that claim. I suppose that answers my question?
>d-dont ask us to tell you why, a-apostate
Eat shit tbqh guys
>>54049979
you idolise the pope too? nice man
>>54050062
Worst part of 4chan is you
>>54050181
Fuck off you cunt! He's a vile pedophile
>>54050181
Go away Americuck. This is atheist thread now
>>54050181
Just leave the thread.
>>54050229
this man i agree
>>54050167
the thread was derailed. Everybody left
>>54050167
That's what happens when your justification for belief in something is the assertion that it's true... because it just is. You don't end up with the most intellectually stimulating of conversations, if you even have them at all.
>>54050320
>Religious people
>Intellect
Fucking lol
>>54050320
Can't believe you came into this thread expecting intellectual conversations
>>54050320
You're out of your mind
>>54050363
This
>>54050320
Do yourself a favour and put this as your background picture
>>54050346
Just kidding guys. You can have your thread back.
>Devout Catholic here
>>54050346
>>54050363
>>54050374
>>54050394
>samefagging this hard
New or retarded? Place your bets, boys.
>>54050487
>>54050532
Well shieet muhfuggha
>>54049659
That backs it up, of course, but no. From everything I'd read of the historical and theological debate on the subject the Catholics were in the better position theologically.
>>54049672
That's a hilariously large and detailed question. I will do the full arguments injustice by summing them up but I'll sum them up despite so you at least get the gist.
It was known throughout early Christianity (unanimously) that Jesus had apostles from whom authority had been given to teach the faith. This is how we have the authority to declare a scriptural canon and form church structure. It was also unanimously known throughout early Christianity that those apostles passed on their authority when establishing successors. This is also found in scripture, though only partially. From this we can grasp the importance of apostolic succession and apostolic authority as part of the church. The main branches that assert claims to apostolic authority are:
>Coptic
>Orthodox
>Catholic
With Protestantism being opposed. Protestantism upholds a focus on the Bible as the final and ultimately the only authority on the faith and, on the question of how best to interpret it, Protestantism promotes the idea that God will guide true believers to understanding it correctly. This is unfortunately the reason for the creation of thousands of Christian sects. Second, the concept of scripture as final authority is found no where in the bible so the position is extrabiblical in itself. Further, how we know the Bible to be canon when we scrap the authority that made the canon is inconsistent. Moreso when we see the figurehead at the start of the Protestant Reformation - Martin Luther - removing books from the Bible as an appeal to the Jewish canon in that age, ignoring his lack of authority to make such a claim either way. I could go further but from this we can see how fucked up it is.
part 1/2
>>54050929
"It's true because people have held it as true" isn't logically different than "it's true because it is/it's true because I say so". They're all intellectually bereft.
>>54050487
That shitposting was just obnoxious.
And I'm fucking Australian.
>>54050929
Coptics are simply a splinter group that come from one bishop that disagreed with the church's position on an early council about the nature of Jesus. As one bishop has no authority over the faith compared to the church body on authoritative decisions we can make the assertion that Coptics are also fucked up, albeit in a lesser way.
Orthodoxy and Catholicism is a much more challenging discourse but largely their split is over church structure and innumerable minor theological issues. Thankfully because of it we can fairly say that both can fairly lead people to Christ despite their differences. For the sake of discussion I'll focus on purely the church authority disagreement. When all the apostles got successors that ensured successors for the position that apostle was in. Of those offices, both Orthodoxy and Catholicism assert that Peter does in fact have primacy over the other offices but the core split is over whether the primacy is purely honorary (the Orthodox position) or has mechanical function in the church structure (the Catholic position) and that man in the office of St. Peter is called the Pope. As the authorities given to the apostles are laid out in scripture, which specific ones given to Peter, none of which simply honorary in practicality, it is safe to assume that the Catholics make headway in the discourse. There is much in the way of historical criticism on the matter - Orthodoxy referencing an old saint referring to "Holy Sees" rather than "Holy See" to make the assertion that all the apostolic offices were equal in status and the like. The Catholics also drag out the writing of old saints to give their view too and each make their own scriptural cases. Orthodoxy/Catholicism is honestly one of the most complex theological debates you'll get. However I would say the most damning evidence is pre-schism examples of the office of St. Peter acting over the other bishops (such as Victor I threatening to excommunicate another in an office.
>>54050929
What is your career?
can i get an explanation on this image, i figure this is the place to ask
Can I get an explanation of the Filoque clause from both sides, Catholicism and Orthodoxy?
>>54051361
In school currently, in between ideas.
I'm a philosophy and anthropology hobbyist, which is how I know this stuff though.
>>54051075
What literally all the christians were supporting for the first nearly 1500 years is not the full argument I make. How we know things as scripture and know our canon depends on understanding authority.
>>54051494
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Filioque_controversy
>>54051435
it's like, ancient anime.
>>54051435
>we wuz kings and shit
That is all you need to know
>>54051526
I've read through this and don't understand how the Catholics made the decision to refine/reorganize the trinity?
>>54051526
>How we know things as scripture and know our canon depends on understanding authority
So what understanding of authority gets you around the part where you're asserting something as incontrovertibly true and yet that assertion is somehow not intellectually idiotic and absurd?
>>54051075
It gets even nuttier when you realize that there was no united opinion at the start. There were all sorts of different ideas. In some early Christianity Old Testament god is a seperate entity who is evil, in some Jesus is not God just a prophet and "son of God" just means someone that is adopted into the family we are all sons of God, in some Jesus is a Gnostic teacher, in some Jesus is a half God. There were tons of theological desputes about very core things (some of the apostles seemed to be have believed that Goys could not be Christians).
Even the formation of the bible itself, who's Gospel went in, who's gospel went out, and minor changes to the text over the years had disputes.
The official answer is that the holy spirit guided all the disputes and wars to ensure the correct party won out. Which is just a thinly veiled way of saying "might makes right"
>>54051845
I don't accept at all that the earliest Christians were magically perfectly unified on doctrine. But I can pretend that they were for argument's sake, because *even if they were* it doesn't make a single lick of difference logically.
>>54051588
what?
>>54051435
Someone put three images together and added the words "before", after" and "way after to them.
The better question is do you actually think something is going on there?
>>54051360
The other problem is that you are in correct in saying we know that Jesus appointed apostles. We do not know this, objectivily.
All we know is that decades after Jesus several differnet people wrote texsts. These writers claimed to be the disciples of Jesus and they claimed Jesus made them their successors.
It takes a leap of faith to believe that they gave us the truth at all or that the texts were even written by who they say they were (which some historians doubt). Actually proving what Jesus said and whether the bible was actually written by his disciples is a nearly impossible historical task. At best we can make educated guesses.
And this whole thing really makes the religion seem retarded. Why would Jesus allow the shadow of doubt to fall over the entire core of his religion? Bart E. Erhman theorizes that Jesus thought the world would end in his life time which is why he never asked his discipels to write anything down. Is he correct? Fuck if I know, we will probably never know.
The fact is that if Jesus actually wrote things down himself and gave us some proof that could seperate his own papers from people just using his name for them, than things would be a lot easier. Christianity's making are very typical, following the same structure you would expect from "false religions". An all knowing all powerful God should be able to do better. Our current methods of preserving knowledge are superior to the methods used by a supposed God. Which would imply that we are superior to this so called God.
>>54044989
Too add some.
>Dies Irea (Day of Wrath), Gregorian Chant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fMHms5Cvsw
>Bogurodzica (Mother of God) Polish Knight Chant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP6atcBlO_w
>>54052244
well the posture is quite similar, im not religious, its quite interesting. i've no idea the context which is why im asking
>>54051435
The first one is Isis nursing Horus Behudty. She is a personification of the pharaoh's authority. In lore, she births Horus which is the protector god for the pharaoh. Isis in early Egyptian culture was also a symbol used in the culture for the ideal woman. The statue is of her famous motif of her breastfeeding baby Horus.
The second and third and early and late paintings of Mary and baby Jesus.
The connection here is both that the Egyptian motif is continued in Mary/Jesus but, as the filename suggests, that there is a gradually "whitening" of the figures in the motif. The former is hardly a connection as a mother breastfeeding and a mother cradling are both everyday things and not the same thing and the last point about whitening fails because:
>Ancient Egyptians weren't black
>There are older pictures of Mary that are much lighter in skin tone
>Mary and Jesus are not Isis and Horus
>>54052376
There are literally hundreds of thousands of artistic depictions of women holding children throughout time and across continents.
>>54052294
>All we know is that decades after Jesus several differnet people wrote texsts
May I just add to this that the texts give completely different numbers of and names of the apostles.
>>54052430
hm, well it's just interesting to say the least ;-)
>>54052566
About as interesting as putting together three pictures of men kneeling in front of pots in the same position is. Which at least for me is not very.
>>54052423
why are these kind of pictures already posted by americans. being an evangelical makes you stupid ?
>>54052658
*always I mean
>>54052423
I posed the question because to me, in reality just as you mention Egyptian motifs are continued in Christianity. And like I said I'm not religious so it's interesting when I find a pattern/s/similarities. It makes me wonder why the need to seperate from the origin. Just as Judaism/Christianity/Islam have done.
the pope is a piece of shit. if you follow the pope you are a heretic.
follow your own heart to christ. if you need popes and bishops and priests, you are trying to hard
>>54052928
retard
>>54052928
I don't like the word 'heart'. I think it generally refers to something you *don't* ever want to follow.
>>54044843
Catholic circle jerk thread? Catholic circle jerk thread
>>54052423
Hey Wolf would you be able to tell me your opinion on Kant as well as comment on the arguments/claims made in pic related?
Good evening Catholic general, good to see this up Wolf. I was feeling like one of these.
>>54052928
My own heart led me to Christ. And my own heart then further lead me to the one true holy apostolic church, whom the pope is the leader of.
>>54053161
Sup Australia.
>>54053201
howdy prac
>>54051526
As a matter of curiosity, do you understand why I raise the questions that I do?
>>54051602
Painfully difficult answer but this would help you the most
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06073a.htm
The "Historical Importance" section is important to you, but I'm sure both would be very helpful.
>>54051709
When am I doing that? When I assert that Christ gave authority to his disciples? We have record of it in the scripture and extrabiblical citations from disciples of those apostles. Further, that there would be hundreds of Christians just after the time of Christ's death and they would be centralized under the apostles would show that there is legitimacy to those historical claims.
>>54052658
African historical revisionism is largely American, from what I recollect. It makes sense that Americans partake in that subculture the most. I can't remember if that's precisely true though.
>>54052294
>It takes a leap of faith to believe that they gave us the truth at all or that the texts were even written by who they say they were (which some historians doubt). Actually proving what Jesus said and whether the bible was actually written by his disciples is a nearly impossible historical task. At best we can make educated guesses.
All our best historical arguments point towards this, as I said to Praceteom in this post, but you are correct that we have but witness reports of events and people giving their own lessons in scripture. What we do bank on as legitimate is the claim to church authority. From it we have the basis for establishing the faith and understanding it with some authority. This is separate from scholasticism's authoritative claims - which functions akin to simply natural religion. We may not grasp things immediately word-for-word but we can grasp the ideas behind them and by grasping at least the church authority we have room to grasp the rest of Christianity authoritatively.
part 1/2
>>54053486
part 2/2
>Erhman
I would say he's wrong and likely pulling out that idea that Jesus taught people the end was coming within their biological generation.
>why didn't Jesus write himself
Do you not think that Jesus spending his time writing things down in full would be counterproductive to the notion of the life of Jesus being one made for example-giving? Why do you think a body of text with "some proof" of its authorship would be more powerful than establishing a leadership of people throughout generations that can teach authoritatively? Surely you know from Protestantism that simply have a body of text leads to many different understandings. You fail to grasp the capability of humanity.
>>54045953
Good luck. I'm past day 712.
But I commit premarital sex... So I guess I'm just as bad as before starting no fap
>>54053486
>All our best historical arguments point towards this
This is pure falsehood.
The gospels were written by second or third generation Chrisitians in a language Jesus and his original followers didn't speak.
Even evangelical scholars only try and suggest there was a really awesome chain of transmission.
It is not mainstream thought among biblical historians, most of whom are Christian, that the actual original apostles wrote them.
>>54053554
Why use masturbation as a way to ween yourself off of sex?
>>54053486
>When am I doing that?
You ascribe to Catholic dogma. Dogma is the assertion that some thing or things are incontrovertibly true. When you ascribe to dogma you're making that assertion.
>Further, that there would be hundreds of Christians just after the time of Christ's death and they would be centralized under the apostles would show that there is legitimacy to those historical claims
That doesn't show legitimacy in the slightest. It just shows (if it even does that) that the ones who knew most of Christ were the ones who were doing most of the initial work. Which is obvious and not indicative of anything.
>>54053757
*why not*
Wolfy are you SSPX or FSSP or anything like that?
I really dig the priest at High Mass because his sermons are great but it's just really hard to follow what's happening.
>>54053757
>>54053848
I originally gave up masturbation because I felt like giving up was the right thing to do. I wasn't good at giving up until I got into my current relationship. Then I decided I'd give up to stay true to the relationship. Eventually after a number of months my girlfriend and I started having sex. And now at 2 years, we still are and I still haven't relapsed on fapping. In my personal scenario it seems counter-intuitive to give up sex with fapping
>>54053534
If you wanted to say Jesus was just a mortal without magical powers than I could see why you would say he never wrote anything down. It is not uncommon for thinkers to have their work recorded by other people. Conjuring books out of thin our is something he is able to do correct (otherwise he isn't all powerful). Likewise you would expect that if he was all knowing he would know the way to write his ideas in the method that would have the least incorrect interpretations. He would know exactly how future cultures would interpret anything he wrote. He could even have commentary texts that describe HOW to interpret his work. Again he would be able to conjure these tomes in an INSTANT and he could make as many as he needed. He conjured a ton of fucking fish so why not books?
This would actually save a lot of souls because many church divisions and heresies would never happen. He could have even prevented the Reformation by making it expressly clear how his church would be organized.
>>54053757
>>54053848
Thats what I've been trying to do lately. Trying to get off both of them. Currently at once a week on the day I'm going out with the mates for the night, so that I have a better chance at turning chicks down when they try shit with me.
Last time I brought a chick home with me I felt shit for about four days after, because even when I brought her home I had thoughts of how God wouldn't want this. But I was two weeks free of masturbation and lust really got to me.
>>54054045
>protestant detected
You're living in mortal sin and aren't even embarassed to announce it to the world.
You and your girlfriend are disgusting.
>>54054210
Everyone is a sinner m8.
>>54054210
Catholic actually.
I'm not afraid to tell the world because though I feel shame for my actions, I recognise that we all sin. I only hope that our lord forgives me. But at the moment, I'd rather he forgives you for your blatant disrespect. Because at least I can recognise my sin, but you seem to fail to do so.
May God have mercy on your soul.
>>54052851
The patterns are neat - not really dismissive of any religion immediately either - but I find drawing the parallels and then stating they are explicitly connected is a very strange jump. As I said, a mother cradling a baby and a mother breastfeeding a baby are common everyday concepts all historical cultures share. But as I said the cross-cultural connections are super neat and telling of multiple things.
>>54052928
>Just do what you think is what Christ wants
>not these trained experts on the subject
>>54053161
Yo.
The comment on Kant is misplaced.
>says Kant's claim that existence is not a property of something but a state of being (existence is not predicate) dismisses Aquinas' arguments
>Kant's claim that existence is not predicate is actually his refutation of the ontological argument by Anselm
>Aquinas was also against ontological arguments
The poster is simply mixed up. Kant did actually do succinct arguments about Aquinas' Ways but he (by no fault of his own, this was a common mistake for his time) failed to grasp the concept of "necessary being" as was used in the arguments. He had a commendable and radical refutation but simply screwed up at grasping the core term that his refutations rested on. However, Aquinas and Kant would be at odds outside of his Five Ways. Aquinas supports the notion of a separation of essence and existence while Kant clearly doesn't. That's it's own discussion but it doesn't weigh on Aquinas' Ways which was the central point.
The comment on Hume I don't support whatsoever. Hume, from my experience reading his work directly, feels more like a brilliant sophist rather than simply a brilliant thinker. Particularly when dealing with Aquinas and the scholastics he shines in not grasping causality the same way that the logicians he criticizes do and fucks it up pretty severely because of it.
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>>54054528
As for Kant's categories that is mentioned this falls into my mentioning of "necessary being". Kant actually confused the ontological argument and the Five Ways' thinking by assuming that the latter was based on a logical/ontological equivocation of the term 'existence' like the former. In fact, Kant has misread the Five Ways; St Thomas begins from an a posteriori premise and not in any a priori understanding of the word 'existence'. The anon references Aquinas' Fifth Way as being not a posteriori argument when it simply not the case. Kant miscategorized Aquinas, accurately categorized Anselm.
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>>54054410
Not me.
I don't even believe free will exists.
>>54054539
Without diving into technicalities, not recognising you're a sinner is a sin because it doesn't recognise that Jesus died on the Christ for the forgiveness of our sins.
Saying you don't sin means you don't believe he died for a purpose, and not for your salvation.
>>54054528
>The poster is simply mixed up
He's not. It's commonly applied both to Aquinas/Aristotle/Paley as well as to Anslem/Godel. Depending on your readings it flies in key places. The most common out is simply to go with 'no that's not what they're saying'.
>>54054611
Of course he died for a purpose. For the Romans to show how badass they were to troublemakers. The same as the other thousands and thousands of people that were were crucified by the Roman Empire.
>>54054539
Going by how sin is defined, I very highly doubt you're not a sinner. It's not impossible, but it might as well be for anyone who has the mental capability to read and write.
>>54054611
If you wanted to prove him wrong you'd have to prove free will exists. If we live in a deterministic universe than whether or not he believes in Jesus is predestined. Calvinism can work here but not other forms of Christianity.
Free will does exist, I believe, but not in the same way Christ-fags think it does.
>>54054538
Does Aquinas deal with Ship of Theseus in the same way as Aristotle?
>>54054522
Nice way to excuse yourself from all responsibility.
Way to treat your "girlfriend" like a whore instead of a wife.
If she got hit by a meteor tomorrow she'd go to hell because of you.
Fuck me actions have consequences.
You haven't taken communion in years, how can you call yourself a Catholic! LEL!
>>54054774
If god is real I've never done anything he didn't make me do.
>>54054822
You're free to believe that.
Reported
>>54054853
Actually it is entirely a result of my original genetic compostion and all of the outside influences I have been exposed to.
WOLFSHIEM: from the last thread (a few days ago)
Following Billy Kangas[1], I agree that Penal Substitutionary Atonement is indeed nonsensical, which makes me wonder whether the people who believe it are just reciting the clichés that their instructor taught them.
Futhermore, I have made a modern abstraction of your religion, tell me if I am close to understanding it (reductively of course, since I have spent precisely 0 seconds
reading The Bible) and where can I improve it:
1. God designs some software
2. God's software doesn't seem to work quite as intended (God wasn't concentrating that day)
3. After some time God realises the bugs are causing insidious errors. soon there the number of errors will grow out of control
4. God creates a patch (codename ``Jesus") to remedy these errors
6. The Jesus patch reigns in the error rate to an acceptable level by instructing God's software how to execute properly
p.s. this didn't increase my belief in your god. it strengthened my belief that Christianity is a blueprint, designed by Smart People, for a meaningful life and afterlife
...where afterlife := what remains of you once you're dead (e.g., memes (in the sense of Dawkins), children, community...)
1. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/billykangas/2014/01/how-this-simple-question-turned-me-catholic.html
>>54054911
You're free to believe that.
Vacuous statements will remain vacuous regardless of whether you think they are or not though.
>>54054948
>since I have spent precisely 0 seconds
>reading The Bible
Oh man, you're missing out. Ever heard of the story of Abraham and his son? It was bad enough that this god’s idea of the “best” in man is a willingness to murder one’s own child on demand. It is inconceivable that any kind being would ever test Abraham’s loyalty that way. To the contrary, from any compassionate point of view, Abraham failed this test: he was willing to kill for faith, setting morality aside for a god. A decent being would reward instead the man who responded to such a request with “Go to hell! Only a demon would ask such a thing, and no compassionate man would do it!” But the Bible’s message is exactly the opposite. How frightening. It was no surprise, then, to find that this same cruel god orders people to be stoned to death for picking up sticks on Saturday (Numbers 15:32-36), and commands that those who follow other religions be slaughtered (Deuteronomy 13:6-16). Indeed, genocide (Deuteronomy 2:31-34, 7:1-2, 20:10-15, and Joshua, e.g. 10:33) and fascism (Deuteronomy 22:23-24, Leviticus 20:13, 24:13-16, Numbers 15:32-6) were the very law and standard practice of God, right next to the Ten Commandments. Instead of condemning slavery, God condones it (Leviticus 25:44, cf. Deuteronomy 5:13-14, 21:10-13). And so on. All fairly repugnant.
>>54055006
>Vacuous statements will remain vacuous regardless of whether you think they are or not though.
Well, at least you are honest.
>>54054948
>>54055058
I could go on at length about the many horrible passages that praise the immoral, the cruel, as the height of righteous goodness. It does no good to try in desperation to make excuses for it. A good and wise man’s message would not need such excuses. It follows that the Bible was written neither by the wise nor the good. And the New Testament was only marginally better, though it too had its inexcusable features, from commands to hate (Luke 14:26) to arrogantly sexist teachings about women (1 Timothy 2:12), from Jesus saying he “came not to bring peace, but the sword,” setting even families against each other (Matthew 10:34-36) and approving the murder of disobedient children (Mark 7:6-13), to making blasphemy the worst possible crime (Matthew 12:31-32), even worse than murder or molesting a child. It, too, supported slavery rather than condemning it (Luke 12:47, 1 Timothy 6:1-2).
Worse, its entire message is not “be good and go to heaven,” itself a naive and childish concern (the good are good because they care, not because they want a reward), but “believe or be damned” (Mark 16:16, Matthew 10:33, Luke 12:9, John 3:18), a fundamentally wicked doctrine. The good judge others by their character, not their beliefs, and punish deeds, not thoughts, and punish only to teach, not to torture. But none of this moral truth was in the Bible, and the New Testament had none of the humanistic wisdom of the Tao Te Ching which spoke to all ages, but instead drones on about subjection to kings and acceptance of slavery, while having no knowledge of the needs of a democratic society, the benefits of science, or the proper uses of technology. It even promotes superstition over science, with all its talk about demonic possession and faith healing and speaking in tongues, and assertions that believers will be immune to poison (Mark 16:17-18).
>>54054778
At this point I've already recognised that you're not even Christian. So there's no real point in discussing this with you, but, I will in the hope that perhaps I can help bring you closer to the lord in time.
I don't try to excuse my actions nor doubt the gravity of them.
You intially assume that my actions are forced upon my girlfriend and it's not mutual. This is misguided.
To think that I treat her like a whore make the implication that sex out of wedlock is appropriate behaviour with another woman, so we can already see your attitude to the issue is biased as you believe it's excusable in some instances and not others.
Perhaps we would go to hell, however I rather maintain hope for salvation, after all, religion is a belief. If God wishes neither of us acceptable to be in the kingdom of God, then I shall take my punishment so I can spend an eternity regretting my lust and greed for consuming me.
Actions do have consequences. You're 100% right. Do you believe you don't sin? It would be interesting to hear your response. Because if you ever picked up some scripture you'd realise that Jesus asks us not to chastise peers who sin, as we are all sinners. We need to love and respect one another regardless. Which I assume you don't enact.
I take communion regularly, so nice try, but you're only showing how childish you are.
>>54055065
Determinism is the vacuous assertion m8. If you assert your actions and thoughts, as well as any other events, are simply determined, then you're making a vacuous statement.
>>54054522
>>54054167
but the issue is that premarital sex in your context is a mortal sin whilst masturbation is a venial one. As a Catholic this is a very serious distinction. Have you discussed this problem with your preist or in confession?
You and your girl are both in danger
>>54055169
One of those was me Kiwi bro, not the Aus bro that you were initially responding to.
>>54055153
Cause and effect is vacuous and simply declaring sin is real is somehow sound?
>>54055169
I recognise the distinction and it is something that weighs on me heavily.
But I would feel just as terrible moving from sex to masturbation on the basis of a technicality. I stand naked before the lord and he is to do with my soul as he pleases.
>>54055101
lel
Let me get this straight. You're a Catholic who doesn't go to confession, takes communion, and bangs his girlfriend who's on birth control?
Bro, where did you get the idea there's some gray area on committing mortal sin, and repeatedly with full intention and knowledge?
There's no purgatory for that, it's straight to H E double hockey sticks.
I go to confession weekly so I can take communion. Generally priests won't even hear the confession of someone like you, who has full intention of committing the same sin after mass kek
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>>54054528
Thank you for responding but what of that posters comments relating to Kant and teleology?
Also how does one get around problems like those posed by Parmendies and Zeno or Elea? For i feel a sense of unease when a rational deduction is used to prove the existence of God when that same method can be used of proving the impossibility of movement and change,
> my experience reading his work directly
Which works specifically It seems a bit much to write him off as a sophist just because of some isseus with scholasticism.
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>>54053694
We can date the finalized versions of the gospels (Sans John, for its own reasons) to late into the life of the apostles or just beyond them. The "just beyond them" historians note to be the asides seen in through the gospels where they try to illustrate to the reader the prophetic connections of specific events. Writing asides doesn't change what I said. And note the implication of me dating only when the FINAL version of the text was made. Also note that while the gospels are anonymous the author of John make a hard reference not to his personal identity but his position was an apostle.
>>54053917
Nope, standard Catholic, albeit unbaptized because of my own plans.
This may help
http://www.sanctamissa.org/en/faq/newcomers-to-the-traditional-latin-mass.html
>>54053768
Ascribing to dogma does not mean you base all arguments about it on that. I just went into discussion about it that was entirely about looking into things critically.
>That doesn't show legitimacy in the slightest.
It doesn't?
If I were to bring you to a country that you know the world events of nicely and literally everyone in the country said that whatever man was the president is that not evidence of the fact that he is? It's not complete proof in itself, of course, but it still is evidence to legitimacy. And you're completely ignoring the other evidence I gave you.
>the scripture
>all extrabiblical sources on the topic
>the unanimous agreement about apostolic authority of all Christians for nearly 1,500 years
None of this is evidence for you?
The very fact that institutional power was given to people is ignored because they're just "doing most of the initial work". What gave them the authority to do the work?
>>54055436
>>54055339
The north rendered such destruction to the south during the civil war, that it still hasn't recovered, especially economically.
>>54055444
>>54055287
Where do you get this assumption I don't go to confession?
I'll take your word for it that you go weekly, I implore you to tell your priest that you betrayed our lord by not acting in a manner towards a fellow sinner as Jesus requested.
I hope next time you're in prayer in front of the altar you give this some serious consideration. The lord does not let anyone into the kingdom of God who could not forgive the sins of those around him.
I pray that you will learn in time.
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>>54055355
Haha, but this is mistaken. Behold - a short paper I ended up turning into an MS paint image!
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>>54055422
Shouldn't really be taking this bait, but this is kinda why we have judgement day and all that. To make sure that those who use their free will to do evil don't make it into heaven.
>>54055542
>>54055539
>>54055557
>To make sure that those who use their free will to do evil don't make it into heaven.
Whoops
>>54055578
>>54055596
muh jewish spinoff
>>54055608
why doesn't the vatican lead by example and show everyone kindness and christian values, by accepting refugees
>>54055613
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>>54055438
>Ascribing to dogma does not mean you base all arguments about it on that
I'm not implying you do. I'm implying any that you *do* based on dogma are necessarily based in unjustifiably bad logic.
>If I were to bring you to a country that you know the world events of nicely and literally everyone in the country said that whatever man was the president is that not evidence of the fact that he is?
Of course it's not. Everyone in the country to have a policy wherein they're supposed to blatantly lie to outsiders about who is in power. This is really basic logic dude.
>but it still is evidence to legitimacy
If popular belief and sentiment is all it takes for something to be legitimate, then Hitler was a pretty legitimate guy.
>>54055617
What is Pope Francis for $150?
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>>54055464
I don't even get that. What does the priest tell you? Do you confess about the sex and birth control and he lets you take communion?
I gotta hear this.
You trying to find a loophole and confess, take communion, then mortal sin the rest of the week?
Hey, there are thousands of priests, maybe he says that's cool.
You're also inducing others to sin by bragging about it, and a few more I don't care to list
>>54055660
muh original sin
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>>54055578
'Whoops' what?
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>>54055669
>by bragging about it
Never mind mate, I won't even bother continuing to talk to you about my journey with the lord.
May you have a good week, and lord have mercy on your soul. You need it just as much as me.
I genuinely fear for you and I don't know who you are. You are caught up in some high levels of delusion that I believe your image of God has become faded.
Through prayer, reading scripture and following the teachings of the lord, perhaps you can stoke the flame of the Holy spirit in you.
>>54055438
>None of this is evidence for you?
I think Scripture indicates something else entirely, and I can argue exactly why.
>all extrabiblical sources on the topic
The ones which have internally demonstrated themselves fallible in one sense or another many times throughout history, and the ones which are literally just people just as weak and fallible as myself saying and writing things?
>the unanimous agreement about apostolic authority of all Christians for nearly 1,500 years
Which means absolutely nothing to a logician?
>What gave them the authority to do the work?
You don't need authority to evangelize. You can *literally* just *DO IT*. It's an obligation of *EVERY* Christian - there is no authority to it *WHATSOEVER*.
>>54055799
no really, what does the priest say, or are you lying to me?
what are you afraid of?
>>54054124
>If you wanted to say Jesus was just a mortal without magical powers than I could see why you would say he never wrote anything down. It is not uncommon for thinkers to have their work recorded by other people.
As I've mentioned a few other times to other anons the mission of Christ was to give us salvation while involving humanity directly in it - giving us an example to act upon. Sitting around and writing a body of text simply the best way of showing this. Especially because text is manmade and thus struggles with its own faults like the ability to read and the ability to interpret correctly and things like that. Again, how is writing a body of text to survive generations better than forming an institution that can make claims authoritatively that can survive generations? If we have a body of text we struggle with the faults of Sola Scriptura. If we have a human institution we can work together to handle simpler issues.
>the least incorrect interpretations
You either doubt the capabilities of man or truly overstate the ability of the manmade concept of written language.
>commentary text
Commentary texts are era-specific. Try to read Aquinas' commentaries and you struggle with the meaning of his works and his form and stuff. Of course you could say "God could make the best one" and then I'd point you to my above point and my question of its value over an institution.
>This would actually save a lot of souls because many church divisions and heresies would never happen. He could have even prevented the Reformation by making it expressly clear how his church would be organized.
However you put yourself in a situation where you have the faults of Sola Scriptura that broke Christianity into thousands of sects. You only ignore this reality because you appeal to God making a situation where this isn't the case.
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>>54055499
congrats on solving the problem of evil, we can put that age-old issue to rest now
>>54055893
You want to actually make an argument? Because so far as I've been able to ascertain the most common response to that counterargument is to ignore it.
>>54055438
>albeit unbaptized because of my own plans.
pfft
>still has original sin
>could die at any moment
>will spend eternity in hell if so
Top kek, the fact that avoiding damnation isn't enough motivation to get baptized shows how much you actually believe in your jewish cult
>>54055972
What's to argue? You nailed it. Take it to Harvard and assume the head of the phil department (or theology if you want)
>>54054689
>>54054689
>He's not
?
Existence as specifically a property is not something any of the Five Ways are dependent on. Other things of Aquinas' are but not that. Thus it is misplaced to mention "Existence is not predicate" to Aquinas' arguments.
>The most common out is simply to go with 'no that's not what they're saying'.
Dealing with modernity reading scholastic thinkers that's sadly the case more often than not.
>>54054775
Ship of Theseus? You mean the thought experiment?
>>54044843
>>54044989
I missed you Wolf,
Have a couple really good books;
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0615445306?keywords=if%20protestantism%20is%20true&qid=1445329537&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/Catholic-Church-Built-Western-Civilization/dp/1596983280/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1445329604&sr=8-1&keywords=how+the+catholic+church+built+western+civilization
http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Lies-About-Catholic-History/dp/0895559064/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1445329604&sr=8-2&keywords=how+the+catholic+church+built+western+civilization
That first one has a really good story about a trilingual heresy, it basically proves that the Catholic church wasn't trying to keep the bible under-wraps, and they would make as many translations as they could.
>>54056016
First mover not Five Ways. Read the post again - you're confusing "existence is not a predicate" with the category arguments of Kant - not the same ideas are applied to both.
>>54055438
Thanks Wolfy!
Nobody around me at mass could figure out what was happening. We were all looking at the pictures in the Misal to figure out what they were doing.
I have a question for you. As people take communion at the rail, then get up and return to their pew, when is the correct time to walk to the rail and kneel from the line of people in the center aisle?
Do you wait for everyone to take communion and the rail is empty before filling it? Or do you line up behind the people taking communion, then move forward after the last one has taken it?
Latin mass is cool but nobody knows what to do kek
>>54056086
"Existence is not a predicate" is Kant too, obviously. I'm just pointing out that he uses it in regard to Aquinas's first-mover-based-argument, while applying the categorical distinctions as a critique of five ways.
>>54056011
You sure got me bro.
>>54056163
>>54056016
*other five ways
The conflations.
>>54049312
This britbong,man
>>54055850
By the time the Gospel writers went to make their writings they had already filled the text with human error. Paul wants the religion open to everyone, James wants it restricted to the Jews. Jesus either did not make this clear enough, someone forgot an important issue, or someone is lying. There are tons of minor consistency issues (did Peter's rooster crow 3 or 1 time? Did Jesus exorcise 1 or 2 men in the pig story?) which at minimum show that the writers had trouble remembering what happened.
Apart from that it becomes hard to separate Jesus from his disciples. As a historical example it's very hard to tell exactly what Socrates taught and when he is just acting a mouthpiece for Plato. The same problem happens with Jesus.
But perhaps the biggest reason of all Jesus should have wrote his own texts was that most of his teachings were not preserved. Think about how LITTLE of Jesus's teachings are actually preserved. The Buddah's teachings fills several volumes the size of the New Testament. Jesus would have given hundreds of speeches and had thousands of private conversations. When reading the bible it's actually amazing how few direct quotes we get from Jesus.
>However you put yourself in a situation where you have the faults of Sola Scriptura that broke Christianity into thousands of sects. You only ignore this reality because you appeal to God making a situation where this isn't the case.
The biblical case for apostolic succession is vague, this is why they were able to get away with it. As Protestants point out the word Pope, nun, bishop, or cardinal never appear in the bible. In texts where government or priesthoods are set up, descriptive, non-allegorical language is used, usually with extensive detail.
Also does Aquinas deal with the Ship of Theseus paradox in the same way that Aristotle does?
>>54056016
Yes. The thought experiment is troubling for the Aristotle/Aquinas idea of objects transitioning rigidly from one state to another.
The reason this is important because the whole universe can be described as Ship of Theseus. All matter is constantly decaying or changing, just like the ship. Cells in the body die, animals evolve through micro evolution, even at the atomic level there is decay. It's a very important thought experiment.
Let's take your idea of an ice cube transitioning from one state to another (ice to water puddle) well when exactly does it stop being ice and become water? When exactly does the seed stop being a seed and become a tree? This is also relevant for evolution, how many micro evolution's until species A is B?
This also relates to Heraclitus who tried to solve it with his philosophy of constant change.
>>54056016
just incase my post got lost in all the pictures
>>54055357
>>54056566
When does a person become bald?
Really, modal terms aren't interesting to discuss. Any people who utilize them in arguments aren't helping themselves.
>>54055499
Angles have free will but dont seem to sin and suffer as much as humans, why not make humans along the same lines?
Why would God make a more sin prone being than necessary?
>>54056377
>which at minimum show that the writers had trouble remembering what happened.
And if they were perfectly the same, you'd be claiming that there was a conspiracy. In the real world you WOULD have slight differences in stories.
>>54054948
Oh hey! I was disappointed i missed your post last time. Good to have you back.
Now I'd say you're wrong on your grasp of Christianity but forgive me if I fail to apply it neatly to your programmer analogy:
1. God designs some software
2. To accomplish said software free will must be coded in
3. Some things in God's software fail to execute their design goals properly due to free will
4. Those design goal failures lead to larger issues in the overall program
5. Patches come in waves as the program develops when the program can stand it
6. God designs a final patch (codename "Jesus") that will have lasting effects towards remedying these errors.
7. The Jesus patch and its lasting effects function to aid the free will in escaping continued errors and allow the object "humanity" in the software to return to a pre-error state to some degree.
Note that this is from a Catholic point of view (which is shared by pretty much all groups in the apostolic sects of Christianity). I'd say the only thing I'd be missing in the explanation is working in the notion that God's programmed ends for things are arbitrarily placed. Christianity holds that those programmed ends are innate to the person despite whatever socialization they have - "written on their hearts" as scripture says - and that these ends are good for the person involved. It's the whole "inner peace" thing.
There really isn't much focus on the afterlife compared than life on Earth in apostolic sects though it's definitely recognized. The big focus on Heaven and Hell in Christianity was a slightly pre-modern idea where theologians separated from our 1000+ years of connecting philosophy and theology and making claims that God rejects reason and so we don't need to assume that God's will is anything more than an arbitrary divine command and thus all we could confirm by the faith was scripture, which would lead us only to the promise of Heaven and Hell.
Anything else you're curious of? I could help.
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>Angles have free will but dont seem to sin and suffer as much as humans
I'm not sure this is the case. I simultaneously don't know how you could be sure this is the case.
