极速赛车168官网 Comments on: Presentism and Infinite History

极速赛车168官网 By: Jim the Scott

Thu, 02 Sep 2021 14:18:00 +0000

Wow 90% of the board has disappeared? That blocking function is awesome. We should block all Gnus as they are uneducated and lack the ability to critique any version of Theism more sophisticated than Young Earth Creationism and Fundamentalism. Plus they don't even know how science works much less philosophy. Which is boring to Catholic Theistic Evolutionists. Philosophically minded Atheists are an order of magnitude more challenging.

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极速赛车168官网 By: Jim the Scott

Wed, 01 Sep 2021 19:57:00 +0000

When, therefore, Moses grew in knowledge, he declared that he had seen God in the darkness, that is, that he had then come to know that what is divine is beyond all knowledge and comprehension, for the text, “Moses approached the dark cloud where God was”(Exod. 20:21). What God? He who “made darkness His hiding place”(Ps. 18:11), as David says, who also was initiated into the mysteries in the same inner sanctuary.

When Moses arrived there, he was taught by word what he had formerly learned from darkness, so that, I think the doctrine on this matter might be made firmer for us for being testified to by the divine voice. The divine word at the beginning forbids that the Divine be likened to any of the things known by men, since every concept which comes from some comprehensible image by an approximate understanding and by guessing at the divine nature constitutes an idol of God and does not proclaim God.

-St Gregory of Nyssa

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极速赛车168官网 By: Jim the Scott

Wed, 01 Sep 2021 19:55:00 +0000

For language to have meaning, there must be intervals of silence somewhere, to divide word from word and utterance from utterance. He who retires into silence does not necessarily hate language. Perhaps it is love and respect for language which imposes silence upon him. For the mercy of God is not heard in words unless it is heard, both before and after the words are spoken, in silence.

Thomas Merton

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极速赛车168官网 By: Jim the Scott

Tue, 31 Aug 2021 21:52:00 +0000

“In Silence, God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.” ~ Thomas Merton.

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极速赛车168官网 By: Jim the Scott

Tue, 31 Aug 2021 21:36:00 +0000

God by nature is always one and alone, substantively and
absolutely, containing in Himself all-inclusively the totality of sub-
stantive being, since He transcends even substantiveness itself. If
this is so , there is nothing whatsoever among all the things to which
we ascribe being that possess substantive being. Thus nothing what-
soever different in essence from God can be envisaged as coexisting
with Him from eternity - neither the aeon, nor time, nor anything
which exists within them. For substantive being and being which is
not substantive never coincide.

St Maximos the Confessor.

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极速赛车168官网 By: Jim the Scott

Tue, 31 Aug 2021 21:33:00 +0000

Just as evil is a privation of good, and ignorance a privation
of knowledge, so non-being is a privation of being - not of being in
a substantive sense, for that does not have any opposite, but of being
that exists by participation in substantive being. The first two priva-
tions mentioned depend on the will of creatures ; the third lies in
the will of the Maker, who in His goodness wills beings always to
exist and always to receive His blessings.

St Maximos the Confessor.

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极速赛车168官网 By: Jim the Scott

Thu, 12 Aug 2021 01:10:00 +0000

极速赛车168官网 By: David Nickol

Wed, 11 Aug 2021 21:48:00 +0000

极速赛车168官网 By: Jim the Scott

Wed, 11 Aug 2021 21:41:00 +0000

In reply to WCB.

I answered all this before in detail (& so did Mark) and you just ignored my response then you repeat yerself. Really this gnu troll persona of yers is ugly and it sucks up the oxygen from real Atheists who can make substantial arguments.

Go back to yer imaginary rational and moral rat friends and let the adults discuss religion.

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极速赛车168官网 By: WCB

Wed, 11 Aug 2021 20:48:00 +0000

In reply to Jim the Scott.

So, when the Bible claims God IS merciful, God IS compassionate, we cannot take that as true because Jim The Scott says so? We cannot say that by being merciful or compassionate God takes on moral obligations to us, his creations? Nobody that can reason is going to believe you.

Psalm 145:8-9
The Lord is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and great in mercy. The Lord is good to all, and His tender mercies are over all His works. Psalm 145:8-9

Psalm 145:8-9
The Lord is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and great in mercy. The Lord is good to all, and
His tender mercies are over all His works. Psalm 145:8-9

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