/lit/ - Literature

>>18638428
>breaks their worldview
Maybe the case for uneductated, closed-minded papists.

>>16407765
>this of course destroys Christianity
No you're just describing standard Christian belief. I think you would be hard pressed to find Christians that don't believe that God exists outside of time and knows everything that will happen. Churches only differ on how exactly that works especially in regards to salvation, and whether or not it is compatible with humankind having free will, or to what extent mankind is responsible for our own sin. This is one of the most widely discussed things in the religion it is not something people shamefully tuck away hoping no one questions it. Read Romans 9:11-24 or 1 Corinthians 12:2-3

Also Begome Calvinist

>>15888888
The digits messiah has arrived

>>15645281
Graced and breadpilled

>>15050777
Based trips, but be warned that if your IQ is high enough this endeavor will always lead to Calvinism

>>14881477
Calvinists are extremely based
t. Elect

>>14218545
>Please, I can't stop crying.
Heh.

What is the best way to enjoy God, anons?

>>13843158
Graced and chastepilled

>>13837159
Wrong idiot Daenerys is Arthur.

Playing guitar is hard, I would probably be a lot better if I actually sat down and. played.

I am also struggling with even building a system of morals and values.

>>13723091
not bad
>>13723107
author really jumped the shark with the catgirl one; real shame, since the others are so brilliant

>>13598152
>Everything in this model reduces the human condition to mere chemistry, making all choice and consequence purely deterministic and with no consequence or meaning
Where is life’s meaning? Do I say you can’t be happy and still enjoy the pre-determines life for you? Instead you seem to want to resent and “fix” what is given, which seems to be an insult to god.

>You are advocating for slavery
All life is slavery, unless you are persuaded in suicide. I simply advocate for an updated programming of the human mind.

>convincing PCs that they are really NPCs is wrong and evil
Am I hurting you?

>It ignores lived experience and synergy of whole producing greater phenomena than its constituent parts
Which is what exactly? As far as I’m aware, humans exist solely for the purpose of the universe reaching higher states of “consciousness” or self-realization. It’s trying to solve itself through means of a program, and we are only a small part of that program.

>This was the same justification that was used to shoot dissidents in-between the eyes because they were merely "a pile of cells"
Get your moralizing faggotry out of here.

>It's the same justification to strip agency and opinion from people and convince them that nothing they do is meaningful so just "give up" to whatever is demanded of them
Science has already stripped any meaning whatsoever of a meaningful existence. Your attachment to ego and the sweet belief that your something “more than human” is clearly inflicting pain on your existence. Relax, take the redpill, and accept your predestined life

>>13527531
Calvin is graced and breadpilled, have fun
Read some of his biblical commentaries if you want to take a break from Institutes at some point

>>13467857
>legal fiction

>What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
>For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
>So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
>For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
>Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
>Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
>Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
>Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

Imagine not being a hyper Calvinist in Anno Domine 2019

>>13119177
>When the creation is given free will to choose

Any Calvinists on this board? How do you reconcile election with practical life? I was raised Calvinist but lapsed after becoming super pessimistic about predestination

Mediocrity has infected every aspect of my life like an incurable disease. I grovel in it and my it my home. My parents were mediocre, I am mediocre, and my children will be mediocre. Always at the bottom of the totem pole and never knowing how much they are held back by those around them. Back to the bottle for me, goodnight

>>12395882
>what does being a jew have to do with being a snake oil salesman

>>12233106
Calvinism is the only logically consistent Christian theology.