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In reply to the discussion: Am I being immoral by believing in a transcendent creator? [View all]Htom Sirveaux
(1,242 posts)127. Or the creator is always creating, so no shift needed.
The "one frozen image" idea is entailed by the relationship between time and change. No time, no change. So a universe that was eternal would be a universe with no time and no change, and therefore not the universe we live in.
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cbayer
Jan 2014
#15
It's not a false statement. It is merely a matter of what you read and how you read it.
cbayer
Jan 2014
#19
I should have been more specific as I was referring to the aiding and abetting bit.
cbayer
Jan 2014
#35
You started threads on all these topics and received a very diverse set of responses
cbayer
Jan 2014
#72
I've pondered why you think a link to that post somehow supports your position...
trotsky
Feb 2014
#106
How about starting with what exactly it is you think you've been accused of? n/t
trotsky
Jan 2014
#33
I have been accused of not standing up against the Bastardization of my religion.
hrmjustin
Jan 2014
#36
I don't make light of people who have been harmed by people who follow my religion.
hrmjustin
Jan 2014
#44
OK, you realize that's not the same as what was said in the OP or claimed by cbayer, right? n/t
trotsky
Jan 2014
#40
I have been accused of sitting on my high horse and not getting my hands dirty.
hrmjustin
Jan 2014
#46
Mypoint wS only that I have been accused of not standing up to conservative Christians.
hrmjustin
Jan 2014
#56
No, what I asked you to explain is how that is equivalent to the statement that...
trotsky
Jan 2014
#63
You zre giving no comfort to them. I believe in the same tenets of death and resurrection as them
hrmjustin
Jan 2014
#9
I feel that transcendental Christianity is similar to parts of Fundamentalism.
Brettongarcia
Feb 2014
#135
If you believe that the imaginary being is ordering you to do bad things.
Brettongarcia
Feb 2014
#117
What do I support? Strictly speaking, a liberal and/or transcendental "belief" might seem harmless.
Brettongarcia
Feb 2014
#128
"Arising" implies a beginning. "Eternal" means no beginning, therefore no arising.
Htom Sirveaux
Feb 2014
#87
Crusader: sounds good. Even Liberal Christianity supports Fundies, Evangelicals, indirectly
Brettongarcia
Feb 2014
#90
Fundamentalists read liberal theology and transcendentalists as backing them?
Htom Sirveaux
Feb 2014
#95
Many fundies dislike "liberals." But as long as one "acknowledges" "God," or "Christ," then ...
Brettongarcia
Feb 2014
#97
Certainly backing them to the point that even lib theology affirms the fundamentals: "God" exists
Brettongarcia
Feb 2014
#108
I'm citing lots of sources; including academic ones. Why don't YOU find some citations?
Brettongarcia
Feb 2014
#112
Philosophy and religion have some overlap; cosmology, ethics/morality, and so forth. I do both.
Brettongarcia
Feb 2014
#115
Most think the Bible stresses blind "faith." But I say the Bible finally backs evidence, "science"
Brettongarcia
Feb 2014
#123
Good observation: to me the Bible backs Science, even OVER traditional belief
Brettongarcia
Feb 2014
#129
Reading the Bible? Watch the double meanings/semantics. Cf. "Bless those who curse you."
Brettongarcia
Feb 2014
#133
I'd say that liberal Christianity has SOME usefulness; a balance between conservatives & Reason?
Brettongarcia
Feb 2014
#119
Agreed. I am most sympathetic to a Liberal Christianity that leans most toward reason
Brettongarcia
Feb 2014
#121