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Nobody likes your thread. Stop making it.

>make a post titled refutations of non-dualism
>complain about people believing in doctrine which actually has logical thought behind it
>I know
>let me just post 20 quotes from the bible about idolatry and nothing to do with non-dualism
the absolute state of the christkike retard.
shut the fuck up you absolute brain dead idiot

Sneed

>>18855033
4chin christ-tards take refutations or argumentation against christianity to be proof of its validity, for some reason

>>18855243
>argumentation against christianity to be proof of its validity
This but unironically.

Not this retarded jehovah nigger again. Mods should ban him for making these threads every day

So when are you renaming this thread "refutations on Idolatry", Shlomo?
Literally nothing you posted says anything about non-dualism, you literal nigger.

(Acts 17:28)
>"For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’"

(Isaiah 45:7)
>"I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things."

Christianity, especially Orthodox Christianity, is inherently of nondualistic nature. But of course a dogmahead like yourself could never understand, because "haha idolatry idolatry haha idolatry idolatry".

Remember lads, slide, sage, and sneed.

>>18853822
Based 22
He probably thinks "hahah, that will show them pagans, they're seething because I called them out on their idolatry!" despite no one "defending idolatry" or him saying literally anything about nondualism. The absolute state of Jehova's Niggers.

>>18855033
Based 33

>>18855361
>Wanting der eternal trjanny to do his job
You're asking for too much, anon

>>18855818
>inherently of nondualistic nature
How so?

>>18855033
No no no it's refutations ON non dualism, he never bothers to fix this grammatical error

Baste.

Western religion has completely abandoned its faithful and Western philosophy has become incoherent. I don’t think this even disputable at this point. It’s no wonder that they look to the past and to the East. Perhaps they simply look too far back and too Far East.

>>18856139
Because the only properly eternal principle is God, everything else is secondary. Evil cannot exist outside of it being a corruption of something good, but the good is required first to exist for it to be perverted or deteriorated. The idea or qualities of something categorically "evil" derives from the self-corrupted Will, a deficiency of the Will to aspire to the higher good, the highest good, even, (God), and instead descending into a system of self-worship that posits itself and its judgment as being higher or superior to God. But the positive goodness of God is first required for such a thing to even have the possibility to manifest. Everything derives from God by necessity, even evil, because evil cannot be co-eternal with good or with God. Else you become a Manichaean or some shit.

Reference Augustine and Origen as some of the earliest exegetes for better words than mine.

>>18857003
This doesnt prove non dualism (the notion that all distinction is illusory).

>>18857003
>Origen
Wasn't he condemned for pushing false views?

>>18857022
Fragments and statements were condemned, not the whole of his teaching. And furthermore, of those fragments many were discovered to be interpolations from other writers that were inserted into his text.

>>18857012
>(the notion that all distinction is illusory).
That's not what non-dualism is. Non-dualism is not monism.

>>18857057
>discovered
by who? If by some gay scholars and not the Church, then is irrelevant.

>>18853813
The rhetoric for monotheism and nondualism pretty much sound identical to me. Both revolve around an obsession with one metaphysical principle and explaining away the nature of evil.
Arguments for Buddha nature and Thomist privation of the good are nearly identical.

>>18853813
cope

>>18857057
>Fragments and statements were condemned
Which ones? Do we know that those not condemned are true? Should we really be recommending noobs someone who could lead them astray easily?

>>18853822

So when will you stop being a Tranny and an Atheist?

>>18857921
Sadly it seems like only at the Day of Judgement.

>>18853822
Ugly tranny

>>18853822
Nobody likes you

>>18853813

>>18857255
Cringe

sneed

>>18857003
The professor answered, "If God created everything, then God created evil since evil exists, and according to the principal that our works define who we are then God is evil". The student became quiet before such an answer. The professor was quite pleased with himself and boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth.

Another student raised his hand and said, "Can I ask you a question professor?"

"Of course", replied the professor.

The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?"

"What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?" The students snickered at the young man's question.

The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat. Every body or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (-460 degrees F) is the total absence of heat; all matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have no heat."

The student continued, "Professor, does darkness exist?"

The professor responded, "Of course it does."

The student replied, "Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present."

Finally the young man asked the professor, "Sir, does evil exist?"

Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course as I have already said. We see it every day. It is in the daily example of man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil."

To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love that exist just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light."

The professor sat down.

The young man's name -- Albert Einstein.

>>18853822
i like it,the nondualism scam must end

>>18855818
I love those verses, if you're interested, here's a view on the Isiah one from John of Damascus.
>Go to chapter 19 - https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/33044.htm
>John - a rigorous philosopher, celebrated chiefly for his systematization of all previous patristic thought in On the Orthodox Faith, the first great work of Christian ‘scholasticism’.
His view is identical with the one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodoret
exposed somewhere, but I can't remember the source.

>>18861902
samefagging

>>18857075
>monism
What's that anons, can you educate me?

>>18860601
>principal