/lit/ - Literature

>>13826692
>>13826674
both right

why does the rational bring so much destruction into the world?

>>11525609
Yeah kind of. Jay Dyer who I recommended earlier uses the analogy of knowing a person. As you spend time with a person you will learn what they are interested in what they have done and what their opinions and views are but no one can ever really know another person's essence because we only know other's by their actions and words. The only person whose essence I know is my own. The same principle holds true to God. We can know God by what God has done, we can know God from what he has told us about himself, but we can never know God's essence like we know our own essence and much less than we can know another person because God's essence is completely unknowable and foreign to us. Even in the resurrection when we achieve theosis and literally partake in the divine nature of God, we will never interact with God's essence because it transcends us and is above and beyond any kind of comprehension or reach.

>>11439223
Check out Jay Dyer's youtube channel. Some of it is a bit tinfoil hatish but he seems to back up everything he says pretty well.

This video is a good short talk on a book by St. Maximus the Confessor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx0khK_Qe1w

>>11401761
How do you get to the ineffable One? Who mediates your epistrophe back to God?

>>11334036
Evil (or sin) isn't created by God but rather the privation or absence of God. Evil exists not because God exists, but rather because human free will neccesitates the ability to deviate from God's will.
To use a shitty overused metaphor, we would never say that a flame radiates darkness, on the contrary a flame radiates light which is the opposite of darkness. The darkness doesn't exist because the flame exists but rather it exists where the flame is not.