/lit/ - Literature

>>19461369
>evidence points to
>it is argued
Anon...

Plato didn't see God's light directly, just speculated about it. Moses did experience God face to face and talked to Him like a friend.

"AND that you may learn that it was from our teachers—we mean the account given through the prophets—that Plato borrowed his statement that God, having altered matter which was shapeless, made the world, hear the very words spoken through Moses, who, as above shown, was the first prophet, and of greater antiquity than the Greek writers;"
- St. Justin Martyr

>>19406924
>greatest thinker
>broo bodies are evil! we will be like... spheres man!!!
>also satan is saved and we can fall again in the eschaton!!!

>>19363178
>God says to Adam, don't do X or you will die
>Adam does X and becomes mortal
>"nooo you see he was forced! god is responsible! the snake was right! adam didn't know! god evil!"
Honestly this type of atheist people and argumentation existing is the best argument for atheism and evolutionism.

>>19265794
>that was deceived by Satan very early on
okay then where is the undeceieved church which has unbroken lineage from Christ? Christ's body is not invisible, it is a real body, so there is a real church the apostles constantly warn to not separate from. Where is it?

>>19207917
For Christ mainly.
I have dropped most exciting or fictional literature. I will from now on maybe only read a few Japanese picture books in my life.

>>19055278
>Sayings of the Desert Fathers,
>Nag Hammadi

>>19011050
>Goodness, Beauty, Perfection, Intuition, Faith are all emanations of God's essence
>emanations of God's essence
OH NO NO NO

>>18970193
>conflict, flux, and revolution
>natural state of all things

>paul was a gnostic
>Jesus never met Paul

Filioque is simply false and a misunderstanding of true Christology.

>>18724466
Lost opportunity to call it CCRUWU - Fanged Noumenyaa~

>unironic Christian apologists

>>17946951
>do they even go to church
I have church services Wednesday night, Sunday morning, and then two shorter chapel services Wednesday morning and Friday morning. Before the funnyflu I also did a second service Sunday morning.
> to be fair I am doing Biblical studies

>all these people misinterpreting Scripture
you hate to see it

>>17493571

>>17307838
The soul IS ex nihilo in creationist theological systems; not sure what your point is here. Belief in an immortal soul that persists after death, without a doctrine of metempsychosis, means your soul was poofed into existence for the sake of your corporeal tenure. Either that or it had been stuck on line waiting for a body since time immemorial, when God had poofed it into existence but neglected to incarnate it.

>>16852378
Yeah and proclus is dumb
>>16852365
Cope.

>>16754362
>So the entire goal and endpoint of this religion is to strive to NOT EXIST. Until then, we are stuck in life after life of suffering, potentially for all eternity? So, in that case it would be better to never have existed at all?
Plato describes philosophy as preparing for death. Christ says his kingdom is not of this world. Guenonfag says Brahman pilots you like an Evangelion. If what bothers you about Buddhism is its sobriety regarding birth and death you aren't ready to study any religious or non-modern philosophical system.

>>16662583
agree but only because public reading of scripture meant that Christians understood "you" as "you all" (something lost in going from Koine Greek with noun declensions to English without these declensions).

>>16605729
>mfw planning to live in a Seminary campus town for grad school
feels good to be a /theology/ chad

>>16569419
>making up context
>has never studied hermeneutics or the context regarding Scripture
you project your own lack of knowledge of context onto me

alright guys, serious question: how popular do you think foot fetish is? Would most readers be weirded out if I spent a page or two to describe the handling of a woman feet?

>>16396328
I discussed this with an engineering student who was attending my pre-seminary. We more or less came to conclusion that only an abstraction can be used to describe the Trinity, since all real-world examples inevitably become heresy.

I personally liked the one involving infinite sets. Where if you have
[.5, 1.5, 2.5, 3.5, 4.5...]
[1, 3, 5, 7, 9...] and
[2, 4, 6, 8, 10...]
these are all infinite sets, but are not each other. The only issue with this explanation/visualization is that one could interpret "different infinite sets" as different gods, but considering that these are equal infinities, I think that problem can be more or less avoided. In Scripture, we see The Lord described in terms that could only be categorized as "infinite terms," such as eternality, pure good, infinite power, infinite presence, infinite knowledge, etc. If the fundamental concept behind "God" is infinity, then using math seems to be the best way to explain the Trinity to me. All three are God (infinite), but they are not each other (not overlapping infinite sets). This sorta ties in with the idea of God as the greatest being, where if all three are the greatest/infinite, then all three persons of the Trinity are God without being each other.

is pirating anime a mortal sin? please answer this