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  1. John D. Brey

    Lets try this another way: if you have faith the brain creates the mind, and that mind depends on brain, can we please see your logic and evidence?

    In his book, The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins proposed that thought's that proliferate outside a person's mind are equivalent in some sense to genes in that they, "memes" (a word he coined to make mind-products rhyme with "genes") can mix with other meme's, like genes mix with other genes...
  2. John D. Brey

    Lets try this another way: if you have faith the brain creates the mind, and that mind depends on brain, can we please see your logic and evidence?

    In his book, The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins proposed that thought's that proliferate outside a person's mind are equivalent in some sense to genes in that they, "memes" (a word he coined to make mind-products rhyme with "genes") can mix with other meme's, like genes mix with other genes...
  3. John D. Brey

    Lets try this another way: if you have faith the brain creates the mind, and that mind depends on brain, can we please see your logic and evidence?

    Why couldn't we say that a lack of evidence ---in this case ----is perfect evidence? In other words, just show us a mind gallivanting around after its brain has died? Then again, we could say, borrowing Dawkins' lingo, that if memes are in fact disembodied mind, then when someone like St. Paul...
  4. John D. Brey

    Basically for Jews

    Your first sentence is difficult to parse. But I think it's clear that Jews don't believe Messiah has come yet. So they're faithfully awaiting his initial arrival and unveiling. Thus, it will be quite a surprise for them when their Messiah arrives only to realize then, that his revelation is his...
  5. John D. Brey

    Basically for Jews

    I can't parse your statement with any certainty? But if you're implying that it's peculiar that the Jewish messiah seems to be so late appearing for Jews, then that same oddity would seemingly apply to Christians expecting the return of Christ? Why has the Jewish messiah, and the Christian's...
  6. John D. Brey

    The Mutilators of Philippians 3:2-3.

    Whereas at first there's a willingness to simulate a quasi-referential relationship between the sign of circumcision versus the fulfillment of circumcision, later, when the facade of the attempted simulation is uncovered, and here, in what Rabbi Hirsch relates as the very sin qua non of Jewish...
  7. John D. Brey

    Ignosticism

    Ironically, the rather famous Catholic scholar, Jean Luc-Marion, turns this definition of Ignosticism around to serve theism: What disqualifies the attempts of theoretical atheism is found not in the weakness of their arguments, but in the senseless ambition that arguments, whatever their form...
  8. John D. Brey

    Western Materialism

    The picture of science of which I have so far only hinted may be sketched as follows. There is a reality behind the world as it appears to us, possibly a many-layered reality, of which the appearances are the outermost layers. What the great scientist does is boldly to guess, daringly to...
  9. John D. Brey

    The Mutilators of Philippians 3:2-3.

    I can't really quote from Jesus or Moses since they're dead. All we have are statements from them written not by them, but by others. Originally I thought you were questioning the interpretation I gave of Philippians 3:2-3? I noted very different verbiage in the list of Bibles you gave. The...
  10. John D. Brey

    The Mutilators of Philippians 3:2-3.

    Whereas representation attempts to absorb simulation by interpreting it as a false representation, simulation envelops the whole edifice of representation itself as a simulacrum. Ibid. p. 6. A"simulacrum" is the quintessential idol: Simulacra are copies that depict things that either had no...
  11. John D. Brey

    The Mutilators of Philippians 3:2-3.

    Paul's calling the purveyors of the traditional exegesis of Genesis 17:10-11 "mutilators" isn't intended as a simple pejorative. Paul is seeing a particular form of Jewish exegesis very much in the light Jean Baudrillard was seeing a world of signs and symbols not anchored by a transcendental...
  12. John D. Brey

    Is it possible that the Bible involves exaggeration? (and King Solomon)

    . . . At least you listed them in proper order since there's a mountain of unbelief in the way of the truth of the second two. When a person is able to move that mountain of unbelief through faith the other two will be seen to be true. :cool: John
  13. John D. Brey

    The Mutilators of Philippians 3:2-3.

    A chok, isn't a tautology since whereas a tautology is a phrase that's grammatically elusive in that it seems to be saying something, for instance, "He descended down," when it's not, since the verb "descending" incorporates the concept "down," so that "down," is a tautological redundancy that...
  14. John D. Brey

    The Mutilators of Philippians 3:2-3.

    Pointing out the tautological insignificance of the idea that those who circumcise are the circumcision ---and then implying that Jews simply don't have to worry about the lack of meaning to the sign of circumcision since they're Jews ----would, as strange as that sounds, in fact have a...
  15. John D. Brey

    The Mutilators of Philippians 3:2-3.

    So what's the problem in these verses that causes Jewish tradition to turn the literal meaning of the Hebrew upside down and inside out leaving the tautology that inspires St. Paul to call these exegetes mutilators of the text and flesh? Where the literal Hebrew is made clear, there's a clear...
  16. John D. Brey

    The Mutilators of Philippians 3:2-3.

    Properly exegeted, Genesis 17:10 says: This is my covenant which you shall guard . . . every man among you, i.e., the circumcision המול . . .. Every man among you, i.e., the circumcision, shall guard the covenant. But how? You shall cut, scratch, mutilate נמלתם the flesh of your...
  17. John D. Brey

    The Mutilators of Philippians 3:2-3.

    It is striking that in our verse the milah itself is called "brit," implying that the very act of circumcision constitutes fulfillment of the covenant. In the next verse, however, milah is called "sign brit," a sign of the covenant, implying that the fulfillment of the covenant entails more than...
  18. John D. Brey

    The Mutilators of Philippians 3:2-3.

    Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the mutilators of flesh. For we are the circumcision, we who worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. Philippians 3:2-3. Paul reveals that in the Hebrew text of Genesis chapter 17, there are...
  19. John D. Brey

    The Mutilators of Philippians 3:2-3.

    Circumcision is not simply an incision of the male sex organ; it is an inscription, a notation, a marking. This marking, in turn, is the semiological seal, as it were, that represents the divine imprint on the human body. . . The opening of circumcision, in the final analysis, is transformed in...
  20. John D. Brey

    Basically for Jews

    . . . Just in case you haven't surmised . . . I'm a Christian through and through. In no way am I ashamed to say I've dedicated my life fully to Christ. John
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