/lit/ - Literature

>>6677928
That's actually not true.

>>6675980
Burroughs is sin incarnate and I in no way approve of his lifestyle, but he's still an excellent writer and critiques society in a unique way--no just drugs and sex, but society in general through these lenses.

>>6677907
Depends on the signifier.

>>6677887
Christian morality is what is right and wrong insofar as we are limited by being human beings, not God. And even at different points in development, human beings have different capacities, that's why there were multiple covenants with different laws. Christ commented so much on divorce laws under Moses.

Hell is not a matter of dong wrong as separation from God. God gives us a rough guide to being more like him because that brings us closer to him. Being less like him is what sin is. We can't possibly gauge on our on what is more or less like him because from where we are the analogy is so approximate as to be totally abstract, we can only depend on him to tell us.

That which is signified

>>6677825
God can't even have a morality, except as Christ's human element. Morality is an extremely rough approximation of a guide to being like God, and the reason it is so rough is because of how very roughly we are like God, despite being made in his image.

>>6666155
He's pretty much the only significant example, and his trial wasn't during any Islamic golden age of science.

>>6666145
It's literally the body of Christ, bruh.

Human are limited to one person per being, God is not.

>>6662659
Goes directly against the Bible, sacred tradition, and the Nicene Creed, so no, it is not.

>>6661742
They keep records of all baptisms down to the godparents. If were born into another church, but received into the Roman Catholic Church, there would be a record of that. You also have to confirmed to be a monk anyway, I assume, and there are records of confirmations.

>>6661746
They have to do that, since only Roman Catholics are supposed to be getting Communion. Anglo-Catholics don't have closed communion, but we still keep such records, and with good reason: imagine if someone became a bishop and it came out that they were never even confirmed in the Church? Committing yourself to the Church is very serious, you need sponsors for baptism, and you need to take vows in front of the congregation for the bishop to confirm you. Plus, it even says in the Bible that there is ONE baptism for the remission of sins, a record is good to keep track of that. Protestants, if you'll excuse me, tend to do "drive-through" baptisms to go with their fast food communion.

>>6661210
Because secularism doesn't offer a decent critique of society, and doesn't provide any spaces outside of the state or market.

>>6660729
Christ went to hell when he died, so yeah.

>>6660925
Reactionaries overlap with Christians, but Christians here aren't inherently reactionaries. I advocate worker control of the means of production, as does WOLFSHEIM even though he mostly posts on /pol/.

>>6659528
He considers it "post-term" abortion.

>>6659628
Christian philosophers disagreed considerably with each other, and John Milbank is almost defined by his dislike of Duns Scotus. Come off it, ,m8

Peter Singer supports infanticide--not just abortion, but infanticide. But eating meat is objectionable

>mfw liberals
>mfw analytic philosophy

>>6659008
He was in the limbo of the patriarchs. Those were saved during the Harrowing of Hell

>>6657114
>Oh ok, in that case, what is your take on the whole "why does god allow bad things to happen to good people?" debate?
Creation is an extremely complex machine, the elements which come together to make bad things happen might be individually integral components for the machine's function. We don't have privy to God's perspective. But rest assured, God knows and empathizes with how you feel, since he had to go through the same thing himself on the cross..

>>6657091
Well, actually God the Son is more than God a s human aspect, since Christ, the Word, was begotten, made flesh, by Mary at a specific date, whereas God the Son is eternally begotten of the Father and was with God and was God from the beginning.

>>6657078
Suggestions are illegitimate assumptions about the imperfection of creation.

My Church doesn't consider reasoning about the will of God to be heretical, and that includes debates about God's will. In fact we consider reason to be one of the "three legs of faith", along with sacred tradition and scripture.

>>6657065
>Everyone is allowed to put letters into the suggestion box.
But apologetics aren't allowed?

>>6657039
>you're refering to the original sin of illegitimately obtaining moral knowledge, I guess? Well that's another thing I'm not buying into. Eating those damn apples was the right thing to do.
No, I mean sin, period. Heaven is to feel a love more intense than the most passionate romance for and from every living thing, hell is the exact opposite and feeling of infinite emptiness, shallowness and loneliness. Every action which contributes to making the world more like the former is virtuous, whereas the latter is sin.

>>6657035
Christ fulfills the new law as per Isaiah. But also don't forget that Christ is 100% human and 100% divine. While the human can be a paragon of humanity, the divine is staggeringly beyond humanity and can only be described in human terms analogously.

>>6657026
>muh univocity of being
Plz go

>>6657027
If you are a Christian, please try not to be so uncivil.