The "God can't die" argument

[StrawberryJam]

I simply object to the comparison Windfish. Your faith is not observable by the telescope, microscope or any other ways one can use to know with certainty.

It is an absence or suspension of rational means available to us to know the physical world around us.

I try to understand this supernatural world spoken of here. I have been through many intensive training sessions. I still continue to go to Mass. I watched as I saw the faithful go partake of the sacramental of ashes and I thought about this again. I have done this, and for some reason I feel I was lied to.

Paul tells us that we are all to know your God.

I can tell him that I gave it all I could to try to give it a go.

How could he be so certain?

 

[Windfish]

I simply object to the comparison Windfish. Your faith is not observable by the telescope, microscope or any other ways one can use to know with certainty.

It is an absence or suspension of rational means available to us to know the physical world around us.

I try to understand this supernatural world spoken of here. I have been through many intensive training sessions. I still continue to go to Mass. I watched as I saw the faithful go partake of the sacramental of ashes and I thought about this again. I have done this, and for some reason I feel I was lied to.

Paul tells us that we are all to know your God.

I can tell him that I gave it all I could to try to give it a go.

How could he be so certain?

Slow down, buddy. Where is all of this coming from? I was confused because I was wondering what your comment had to do with the discussion or Catholic Dude (i.e., “Catholic Dude, the lens on my telescope is not smeared with vaseline.”) So now I am twice as confused.

It is true that you won’t find empirical verification for the truth of the Faith, and as long as your attitude is geared toward that being the only criterion for determining truth, you will probably continue to suffer from spiritual dryness. For what it’s worth, I know where you are coming from. I know how your intuition about your everyday experience does not seem to match up with the truth of the Faith, and I know how stranded that discontinuity makes you feel. I think God let me experience it so that I can identify with skeptics. All I can say is that, the more I studied critical thinking and philosophy, the more I understood how self-defeating and limited that kind of outlook is - even in holding it I was being intellectually dishonest. Still, though, it is easy to lapse into it since we are, after all, material creatures in a material world, our nature separated from God because of Original Sin. It’s tough, strawberryjam. It’s tough, and I commend you for hanging in there - my willpower pales in comparison to yours.

 

[Scaun]

Defining death first would be useful.

 

[kbachler]

I was watching a video where a Christian was talking with a Muslim and the Muslim argued that Christian theology contradicts itself in sayinig Jesus is God and that Jesus died on the cross, as God can’t die.

What is a good reply to this?

The reply is that Jesus did not die, He is alive today. Jesus allowed His earthly body to be put to death, so that it could be raised, thus demonstrating that He is beyond this Earth and God.