It's sad. Sad because the faith is so misunderstood, reduced to merely a story of "avoiding punishment and gaining reward." Sad because the Reformation turned reason and faith into opposites, not sisters, the two wings of Saint Aquinas' "two winged bird." Sad because the pride that leads these people will never allow them to experience the peace that surpasses all understanding, mystical union with the divine, and the true freedom from being ruled over by the Logos instead of by our disordered drives, desires, ignorance, and mere circumstance.
Let us pray for them, that they might be healed. That they might recognize that we are all worthless singers, and yet that "God loved us even when we were sinners." Let us pray that the words of Joel be fulfilled, that we should see God's Spirit poured out on all flesh.
Let us not have anger against them, but only welcoming love. For but by the grace of God we would remain unrepentant sinners as well, for we too are trapped in this fallen world.
Our minds are to be temples to the living God. Our souls joined, "in Christ, as Christ is in the Father" (John 17). We are given the example of Mary, a perfect vessel of the Logos, the Theotokos. Let us pray that we might be like her, perfectly responsive to the commands of God.
Glory to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, both now and then and on to ages and ages amen.
>We are given the example of Mary, a perfect vessel of the Logos, the Theotokos. Let us pray that we might be like her, perfectly responsive to the commands of God.
There's a book for that.
Amen.
I pray that one day the mystical prophesy of the 'Enlightenment of Conscious' becomes that of a reality for people to stop being ignorant, if not there I say stupid, to what is truth.
I'm just chilling bro. I want you to be healed, as I have been. I'd be a jerk if I encountered so many sick souls and didn't at least recommend the Good Doctor down the street.
>Thus, a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but what is worse, as many masters as he has vices.
Saint Augustine
You are free from righteousness, but not from bondage.
By no means. I am merely pointing out that slavery to sin — to lust, addiction, pride, ignorance, shame, etc. — can be worse than physical slavery. "The Spirit gives life; the flesh is of no use." (John 6:63)
Of course, perfection takes time and willingness to endure. Those who are to be refined in the refiners fire (Zechariah 13:9) must endure a purgation of their fleshly desires. We are clay that must be reformed, from vessels of dishonor to those of glory. (Romans 9; Isiah 64:8, Psalm 2).
Ignorance can still bind the faithful, but their hearts may still be refined. The fleshy reading of the Word is less profitable than the Spiritual, the anagogic (Origen, Erasmus). People who look down upon the simple are merely slaves to vanity.
A slave cannot, by definition, be free.
Legally, sure. But in ways the drunkard, incontinent master can be less free than his mature and upright servant, no? Our society focuses too much on freedom from external constraints, too little on man's degradation into a beast. Plato and Aristotle were right to focus on reflexive freedom, self determination, first and foremost. And the Patristics develop this wonderfully, as does Hegel (another brother in Christ).
I have read much of what Nietzsche published and I am left with the impression that he did not have a firm grip on Plato or the later Platonists.
What I don’t understand is if god is all powerful and all knowing why does he get jealous or mad or surprised or anything? Why does he torture so many people and punish them if he already knows everything that has and will happened?
In the Bible “god” acts so emotional. Why would an all powerful god have emotions.
The sign is a subtle joke. The shop is called "Sneed's Feed & Seed", where "feed" and "seed" both end in the sound "-eed", thus rhyming with the name of the owner, Sneed. The sign says that the shop was "Formerly Chuck's", implying that the two words beginning with "F" and "S" would have ended with "-uck", rhyming with "Chuck". So, when Chuck owned the shop, it would have been called "Chuck's Feeduck and Seeduck".
It's sad. Sad because the faith is so misunderstood, reduced to merely a story of "avoiding punishment and gaining reward." Sad because the Reformation turned reason and faith into opposites, not sisters, the two wings of Saint Aquinas' "two winged bird." Sad because the pride that leads these people will never allow them to experience the peace that surpasses all understanding, mystical union with the divine, and the true freedom from being ruled over by the Logos instead of by our disordered drives, desires, ignorance, and mere circumstance.
Let us pray for them, that they might be healed. That they might recognize that we are all worthless singers, and yet that "God loved us even when we were sinners." Let us pray that the words of Joel be fulfilled, that we should see God's Spirit poured out on all flesh.
Let us not have anger against them, but only welcoming love. For but by the grace of God we would remain unrepentant sinners as well, for we too are trapped in this fallen world.
Our minds are to be temples to the living God. Our souls joined, "in Christ, as Christ is in the Father" (John 17). We are given the example of Mary, a perfect vessel of the Logos, the Theotokos. Let us pray that we might be like her, perfectly responsive to the commands of God.
Glory to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, both now and then and on to ages and ages amen.
>We are given the example of Mary, a perfect vessel of the Logos, the Theotokos. Let us pray that we might be like her, perfectly responsive to the commands of God.
There's a book for that.
Amen.
I pray that one day the mystical prophesy of the 'Enlightenment of Conscious' becomes that of a reality for people to stop being ignorant, if not there I say stupid, to what is truth.
stop being a slave anon
>begins to seethe
i guess you were born that way
I'm just chilling bro. I want you to be healed, as I have been. I'd be a jerk if I encountered so many sick souls and didn't at least recommend the Good Doctor down the street.
Nah, you'd be a jerk if you offered your unsolicited advice to everyone you met.
>Thus, a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but what is worse, as many masters as he has vices.
Saint Augustine
You are free from righteousness, but not from bondage.
Are you really justifying being a slave?
By no means. I am merely pointing out that slavery to sin — to lust, addiction, pride, ignorance, shame, etc. — can be worse than physical slavery. "The Spirit gives life; the flesh is of no use." (John 6:63)
Of course, perfection takes time and willingness to endure. Those who are to be refined in the refiners fire (Zechariah 13:9) must endure a purgation of their fleshly desires. We are clay that must be reformed, from vessels of dishonor to those of glory. (Romans 9; Isiah 64:8, Psalm 2).
Ignorance can still bind the faithful, but their hearts may still be refined. The fleshy reading of the Word is less profitable than the Spiritual, the anagogic (Origen, Erasmus). People who look down upon the simple are merely slaves to vanity.
Legally, sure. But in ways the drunkard, incontinent master can be less free than his mature and upright servant, no? Our society focuses too much on freedom from external constraints, too little on man's degradation into a beast. Plato and Aristotle were right to focus on reflexive freedom, self determination, first and foremost. And the Patristics develop this wonderfully, as does Hegel (another brother in Christ).
I have read much of what Nietzsche published and I am left with the impression that he did not have a firm grip on Plato or the later Platonists.
A slave cannot, by definition, be free.
Why are you seething? Just turn the other cheek.
What I don’t understand is if god is all powerful and all knowing why does he get jealous or mad or surprised or anything? Why does he torture so many people and punish them if he already knows everything that has and will happened?
In the Bible “god” acts so emotional. Why would an all powerful god have emotions.
Because he's a israeli woman, the god of Christians.
Still waiting for someone to answer this…..
The sign is a subtle joke. The shop is called "Sneed's Feed & Seed", where "feed" and "seed" both end in the sound "-eed", thus rhyming with the name of the owner, Sneed. The sign says that the shop was "Formerly Chuck's", implying that the two words beginning with "F" and "S" would have ended with "-uck", rhyming with "Chuck". So, when Chuck owned the shop, it would have been called "Chuck's Feeduck and Seeduck".
>Be atheist
>God lives rent free in your head
Defeats the purpose doesn't it?
No one would have a problem with God if Christians didn't exist.
Still a gay mindset to have.
Nah, destroying christians is good for the world. They only exist to protect israeli interests.
How so?
Well, good luck I guess
Don't need it, we have God, your existence is a hindrance to the expansion of consciousness.
I think you don't know what you are replying to lol. It happens to the best of us.
Talking to you israeli slave boy.
Never said I was Christian but case in point
Good luck however.
How is that case in point you delusional retard, you aren't God, he doesn't exist.
Only brown people are still christian
weak bait
Kind of true.
For example only 5% of Brits regularly go to church. If it wasn't for immigrants it would be 2%
I'm Christian, so I guess I'm brown.
Do I get the brownie points of being black?
Nietzsche was a mistake
>mfw I spam the brown people cult of jeebus 24/7 on a chechen mma techhiques forum but I'm the victim when I get told to fuck off
how is THIS not a seething thread? Holy shit I swear some of you are born with half a fucking braincell.
That’s what Christians do nonstop. Always crying about atheism or some bullshit.
Why can't Jesus protect your pussy from bad feelings when you see opinions you don't like?