Quite decent; God bless you. (And bring you to Himself, I can’t resist adding.)I apologise unreservedly. I did not read all the page, only the sections I posted. My views are not represented by this and I retract those references. Apologies for any offence caused it was not my intention.Lesson learned.
I’m open to it if he’s out there. Unfortunatly I don’t think ‘he’ is.Quite decent; God bless you. (And bring you to Himself, I can’t resist adding.)
You can’t prove or disprove anything with science. Even after you “disprove” a theory, you could discover that the reasons behind its disproval were faulty.
Since most people have talked about the possibility of a soul and the dualist school of thought regarding an afterlife, I’ll provide a few materialist questions to consider.
On the contrary, Gareth, this is an excellent topic of discussion. The only thing that would “destroy” it would be if you would leave it. Without you hear, i’m sure it would be like a dead corpse whose soul has moved on.I’m open to it if he’s out there. Unfortunatly I don’t think ‘he’ is.
I feel bad about that, I can’t continue this thread now, I’ve destroyed it with that dumb post.
The really funny thing about believing in life after death, is in a wierd form of pascals wager, you’ll never know if you’re wrong only if you’re right…
and I’ll never know unless I’m wrong…
it is what it is I guess.
OK. Let me rephrase that. Galileo had the wrong idea about why the earth revolved around the sun. The right idea did not arrive until 200 years after Galileo’s death. Happy now?
Well, that is the debate among Protestants. Seventh Day Adventists take the same view as Jehovah’s Witnesses, that when you are dead you are dead like a dog. God, they say, will resurrect the dead so that they will live again. The time between death and resurrection, they cease to exist.I do
Gotta love that ol’ chap.
I was wondering, though, doesn’t the Bible show a more holistic view of man… that man is not man without his body.
Especially it seems so in the Old Testament.
What is the rightful place of Greek philosophy in Christian theology?
- CB
Are not all things which have opposites generated out of their opposites? I mean, such things as good and evil, just and unjust, brightness and darkness, heat and cold—and there are an innumerable other opposites which are generated out of opposites.
This holds universally of all opposites, i believe. That is to say, for example, anything which becomes greater must become greater after being less. And that which becomes less must have once been greater. And the weaker is generated from the stronger and the swifter from the slower. And the worst is from the better and the more just from the unjust.
And this is true of all opposites. Would you agree, CB?Yes Socrates, I agree, that there is no darkness unless we know what light is, and that there is no evil except we know what good is. Neither can we say anybody is unjust unless we know what it is to be just.
Interesting question. The answer i think might be discovered by answering Socrates’ question to the religious sage Euthyphro. The question went something like this:
Gareth when you think about your car, it is obvious that it did not make it self. You realise that everything has its place,chase frame seats steering wheel mirrors lights wheels engine gear box electrical system breaks, and so on. without any of these parts it is incomplete. And you also know that somebody had to have designed it, and thought about it and planed every step, drawn up a blue prints so that the equilibrium of every thing was precis. What I’m getting at is that no matter how many millions of years you wait these parts will not make themselves and come together as a whole. No it needs someone to design and build it.