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  1. lovemuffin

    RF Radio Left Hand Path Shows

    ***** MOD NOTE ***** Please keep in mind Rules 1 and 3 in this thread: 1. Personal comments about Members and Staff Personal attacks, and/or name-calling are strictly prohibited on the forums. Speaking or referring to a member in the third person, ie "calling them out" will also be considered...
  2. lovemuffin

    A definition of "determinism"

    "absolute randomness" appears to contradict the part of the definition wherein the antecedent causes insure that things will be exactly what they are and nothing else. I understand that you are probably trying to incorporate the apparently random (stochastic) nature of quantum events, but if...
  3. lovemuffin

    Thanks! long time no see. Hope you are doing well

    Thanks! long time no see. Hope you are doing well
  4. lovemuffin

    Gospel of Thomas

    I'm not sure if you are confusing the GoT with one of the other "Thomas" texts, but there are manuscript copies of fragments of the text to like 200 c.e., and the Nag Hammadi find is from the mid-fourth century, I believe. According to the wiki page there are writings that reference it from the...
  5. lovemuffin

    Starry's Blue (Da Ba Dee Da Ba Die)!

    Nothing is better than world peace A veggie pizza is better than nothing Therefore, A veggie pizza is better than world peace
  6. lovemuffin

    What is Christianity morphing into?

    As you said, this general topic has been done ad nauseum, so I'm hesitant to drag another thread into it, although if you were interested I would probably be willing to do a one-on-one debate with you about the assertion that the Bible provides no support for the idea of Jesus' divinity. These...
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    What is Christianity morphing into?

    Technically, the church councils that elaborated the doctrinal ideas referred to in the Trinity predate the RCC in its modern form. They were prior to the great schism. The trinity owes its formulation mainly to the cappadocian fathers who were neither roman nor latin, although of course, given...
  8. lovemuffin

    What is Christianity morphing into?

    I might say "zero comprehension" is a perfectly adequate expression of the apophatism of the trinitarian doctrine if we use a technical enough definition of "comprehension" ;)
  9. lovemuffin

    What is Christianity morphing into?

    I personally think the most useful description of orthodox trinitarianism would be something like "qualified monotheism". There is certainly some sense in which the trinity is not a perfectly singular monotheism, hence the longstanding controversies, but at the same time the doctrine elaborated...
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    What is Christianity morphing into?

    I think demographically the volume of anti-trinitarianism on RF does not really reflect the demographics of Christianity globally. It just appears that people belonging to certain groups are more active on the forums. For example if you look at the recent Pew survey, the size of the trinitarian...
  11. lovemuffin

    Thought Crime

    To elaborate a bit on what windwalker is saying, I think as with many reasonable observations, the observation that habits of thinking affect actions and ultimately our state of being is certainly one that is not absolute, and requires some qualification and discernment. Taken to an extreme, it...
  12. lovemuffin

    Of course it doesn't mean that sometimes disagreements aren't real, rather than semantic. But...

    Of course it doesn't mean that sometimes disagreements aren't real, rather than semantic. But erring on the side of believing we probably aren't that different encourages more communication and less hostility, which seems good to me in any case :D
  13. lovemuffin

    language is tricky, but also fascinating. I like to err on the side of overestimating how much...

    language is tricky, but also fascinating. I like to err on the side of overestimating how much of a disagreement might boil down to hearing words differently than the alternative.
  14. lovemuffin

    Jon Stewart on Caitlyn Jenner and media portrayals of women

    I saw this clip from the Daily Show about media reactions to Bruce Jenner's transition to Caitlyn Jenner, and thought the point being made about our culture's treatment of women was especially sharp and well made. I thought it might be of interest.
  15. lovemuffin

    What does it mean to walk by Faith?

    "Sight" is a primary metaphor for knowledge, so I think you're right that what is being contrasted is faith and knowledge. But I think it would be injecting too much of a modern perspective, especially one conditioned by arguments about theism and atheism, to think that the object of faith or...
  16. lovemuffin

    Gospel of Thomas

    If I'm understanding you, I think the argument you're making is that the wording of the Gospel of Thomas would have been too closely associated with very specifically gnostic ideas about metaphysics, and about the nature of salvation and "knowledge", in order to be made orthodox. I think it's a...
  17. lovemuffin

    Gospel of Thomas

    At the risk of beating a dead horse, my original reply to you was to clarify that the quotes you posted, wherein the child Jesus kills people, do not originate from the Gospel of Thomas. Does my post make sense now?
  18. lovemuffin

    Gospel of Thomas

    There's no doubt that "mystery" and esotericism are important to the "gnostic" tradition, but "mystery" is also a staple of Paul's writing, and also appears in the gospels. Cf. Strong's Greek: 3466. μυστήριον (mustérion) -- a mystery or secret doctrine
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