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  1. Notthedarkweb

    Is Saint Paul more authoritative than the Gospels?

    So there are two questions going on here, that imo ought to be separated. One, is St. Paul more historically representative of the early Nazarene community than the Gospels? Two, ought St. Paul be as authoritative as the Gospels? The answer to the first one is obvious, the genuine Pauline...
  2. Notthedarkweb

    Satan, Lucifer and the Devil

    As pointed out, there isn't much scriptural assertion for this proposition, but with the powers of Sin and Death, Satan (entering in Rom 16:20) is intended by Paul as a challenger to God's sovereignty, which is probably the earliest attested instance in Christian thought of Satan as a sort of...
  3. Notthedarkweb

    Anybody want to deny the Democrat party isn't socialist now?

    Well, the judgment would be correct in the case of Republicans.
  4. Notthedarkweb

    Anybody want to deny the Democrat party isn't socialist now?

    Even accepting that Marxist schemata necessarily lead to authoritarianism (I don't believe they do, though Lezsek Kolakowski was probably right that Stalinism was a legitimate instantiation of Marxism), anarchists and non-Marxist socialists like the followers of Proudhon criticized Marx for his...
  5. Notthedarkweb

    Anybody want to deny the Democrat party isn't socialist now?

    What Democratic Party member supports the abolition of Capital as a social category and the abolition of all its concomitant entities (like the state)?
  6. Notthedarkweb

    Anybody want to deny the Democrat party isn't socialist now?

    I mean Steve King was pretty openly white nationalist lol
  7. Notthedarkweb

    Anybody want to deny the Democrat party isn't socialist now?

    The Democratic Party is a coalition of various groups, not a unitary entity. Some people, like AOC, are self-described democratic socialists. Others, like Tim Ryan, are not. The Democratic Party as an entity, is not socialist, since nothing in its platform says so.
  8. Notthedarkweb

    Theistic Hindus: The problem of evil

    Indian ethics has a very underdeveloped notion of moral patients, I will admit. Though for the moral agent, compassion is a quality that ought to be developed irregardless of situation as a virtuous habit, which is what a lot of rthicists seem to lean on in order to support helping others be...
  9. Notthedarkweb

    The Thorns of Truth

    Sure, but that's not what I'm asking.
  10. Notthedarkweb

    Theistic Hindus: The problem of evil

    Can you elaborate?
  11. Notthedarkweb

    Skeptic?

    Yes, you might just be an eliminativist about many folk concepts and a physicalist in ontology.
  12. Notthedarkweb

    The Thorns of Truth

    Is the question about the reliability of truth or about what relation Christians qua Christianity have with truth?
  13. Notthedarkweb

    Theistic Hindus: The problem of evil

    The problem of evil is generally explained in the idea of karma, which is the deterministic pattern of cause-and-effect imputed to a self through its performance of agency, resulting meritorious (punya) and demeritorious (papa) actions. The way it works is that the moral agent undertakes a...
  14. Notthedarkweb

    Gods limitations

    Idk about the Latin Church Fathers (with whom I have relation, honestly), but you might look into the work of John Scottus Eriugena, who has a sort of panentheistic metaphysics. He is a medieval, though. I have heard Eastern Orthodoxy has panentheistic work, though I couldn't tell you about it...
  15. Notthedarkweb

    The Subjective and the Objective

    Don't think this is obviously true. As Gangesa points out in opposition to the Advaitin and Prabhakara positions, when we perceive the world, we don't do it in propositional attitudes of "I am aware of this chair", but in the bare propositional form "this chair exists", and that self-reflexive...
  16. Notthedarkweb

    liberal Protestant Christians

    As a member of the ACC, these views are actually exceedingly rare, (obviously, assuming the ACC is similar to the ECUSA, though I have seen no evidence indicating otherwise) and with the exception of John Shelby Spong, I don't really know of anyone outside divinity departments who holds this view.
  17. Notthedarkweb

    A Gnostic account of the world (in brief)

    I mean, as I said, I don't accept rational theology as a basis for theology in the first place, so I am not really interested in your proposition. But yeah, it is off-topic.
  18. Notthedarkweb

    A Gnostic account of the world (in brief)

    I don't think you and I are disagreeing on this, frankly. If I don't accept the Quran as a basic criterion or epistemic authority (which I certainly don't) for speculative theology (which I dislike in the first place), it would not be very useful in convincing me bar religious revelation.
  19. Notthedarkweb

    Gods limitations

    No, the RCC and the churches descended from the Magisterial Reformation explicitly reject panentheism. I am sure some Radical Reformation churches probably accepted the idea, though.
  20. Notthedarkweb

    A Gnostic account of the world (in brief)

    Yeah but that's what I am saying. Like this is pure speculative theology, and you either reject it with respect to your own belief in scriptural authority or you don't.
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