Post by FilmFlaneur on May 29, 2019 17:43:37 GMT
Please quote where I require there be unanimity. I was only making the point that other views exist on some occasions. It might be observed, however, that it is likely harder to convince the sceptical of supposed general religious truths when the religious can't even agree on them among themselves ... especially when they are those who might be best expected to know!
I’m only concerned with accuracy.
That would be the point really. There can be no 'accuracy' in matters transcendental since knowledge of anything is hard to obtain and views vary about matters supposedly understood. But one imagines you really know this, which makes one wonder why you are so exercised by the prospect here - and why, in effect, you are attacking the messenger rather than the message.
Some dude
Some dude. St Augustine (and St Aquinas too, come to that.) LOL
saying sin doesn’t exist is not automatically the same weight as scripture that sin does exist unless proven otherwise. .
The point is, my friend (for those who care) that in this understanding, we are made absolutely responsible for our actions.
"Existence is good, so evil does not exist except as the lack or deprivation of some good that a being should have. We can therefore only recognise evil in the context of a prior understanding of the good of any being. If evil were completely annihilating of the good then it would have to annihilate itself because it depends upon the good of existence to manifest itself as lack... From a metaphysical perspective, Aquinas asserts that the world is better for having evil within it, because evil serves a greater good... For Aquinas, God's goodness is beyond all definitions of the good, and we cannot hold God to account by our moral standards. Of course the world could be other than it is, but that would be a different world, and this is the world God created."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/mar/12/thomas-aquinas-question-evil
This is admittedly a pretty subtle and intellectual idea from the great thinker(s) but there it is.
I hope that helps.
But if you want to continue pretending that all of Christendom believes the same in order to create a pretend contradiction then you are just being you.
If all Christendom believed the same then, er, surely there would be no contradiction. Have you thought this through?
In the meantime I know which dudes in this spat carry most weight ... should I be inclined to worry any more about it.