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Here is what I had written before it was pruned. I would like to ask you to criticise and develop my considerations about suffering and perfection.

The perfection of suffering is glory. The solution to the problem of evil is the following three-step formulation: katharsis/purification by confession, repentance, and the askesis it necessitates; theoria/illumination by the vision of God; and perfection/theosis, union with God, which destroys the idea of evil and is the proper end of every person and all of Creation.

Propositional arguments can help a person understand the logical entailments of perfection. God is infinite and therefore finite by virtue of omnipotence. You can let such a notion help you remember your death, which in the superior understanding is an act unforgetting/anamnesis, seeing that forgetting is also an activity of the mind. Pascal's wager may help you see this without paradox.

Anti-Christian arguments are always assertive because of their incompleteness. A Christian can acknowledge that limitation presumes the infinite and thereby be humble and fulfilled even within reason.

I'm an Eastern Orthodox Christian catechumen.

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No. The hate of love is love.

Happy first day of Advent brothers, let's keep the oil topped in our lamps through repentance, prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, so that we can be ready for the coming of the Lord. Love you all!

I have 2.

1. The Light of the World - William Holman Hunt
2. Saint George and the Dragon - Gustave Moreau

1/2

Jesus on neuroscience and "the problem of consciousness", the fact that brute matter is responsible for the sprouting of human consciousness, that the human "soul" is a gift from the flesh:

>29. Jesus said, "If the flesh came into being because of spirit, that is a marvel, but if spirit came into being because of the body, that is a marvel of marvels.

>Yet I marvel at how this great wealth has come to dwell in this poverty."

Gigantic red pill: https://hegelsbagels.net/posts/what-is-happening/

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Let us adjust our accounts before the day of accounts. Let us seek God, now that we can find him; for the time shall come when we will wish, but shall not be able to find him. ”You shall seek me, and shall not find me.” (John vii. 36.)”Before judgment,” says St. Augustine, ”the Judge can be appeased, but not in judgment.” By a change of life we can now appease the anger of Jesus Christ, and recover his grace; but when he shall judge, and find us in sin, he must execute justice, and we shall be lost.

—St. Alphonsus de Liguori

So you're telling me that all I have to do to inherit eternal life is believe in this guy and keep the commandments?

That seems too easy—why doesn't everyone do this?!

Talk about your favourite authors, ideas, and whatnot.
Personally I'm searching for recs on prayer/meditation, and how to get into it.

Thanks.

Welcome.

Recommended books:

The Cloud of Unknowing - Anonymous
Meditations on the Tarot - Valentin Tomberg
Saying of the Desert Fathers - Benedicta Ward/Metropolitan Anthony
The Interior Castle - St. Teresa of Avila
Theologia Mystica - Dionysius the Areopagite
From Whom God Hid Nothing - Meister Eckhart
The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism - Bernard McGinn
Jesus, The Last Great Initiate - Edourad Schuré
The Imitation of Christ - Thomas A. Kempis
Magical Christianity: The Power of Symbols for Spiritual Renewal - Coleston Brown
Patterns in Magical Christianity - Nicholas Whitehead (Coleston Brown pseudonym iirc)
Experience of the Inner Worlds - Gareth Knight
A Practical Guide to Qabalistic Symbolism - Gareth Knight

And if I we are discussing bibles for study, I humbly suggest this:
https://books.wwnorton.com/books/978-0-393-34704-3/

These are from a chart that's been going around for some time, though its resolution is so awful that I didn't even bother with it.
Feel free to discuss whatever regarding Christian literature or the state of the church, just be civil.