Sun 8 Nov, 2009 04:16 pm - [QUOTE=xris;102469]So by your reasoning you actually dont know if god made us imperfect or not[/QUOTE]
No, I don't have knowledge as such. I don't presume to know the mind of God or the... (view)
Sun 8 Nov, 2009 10:21 am - [QUOTE=xris;102457]So we are not perfect, is there a reason why god cant make us perfect, is he incapable?[/QUOTE]
That's a very good question.
For starters, I don't think he wanted to... (view)
Sun 8 Nov, 2009 09:18 am - Personally, I'm a moral absolutist, which means that I believe there are absolute truths. That is to say, there exits truth which is indepedent of opinion. Plato differentiates them with the... (view)
Sun 8 Nov, 2009 09:04 am - [QUOTE=xris;102451]A simple question ,why did god make us imperfect and then expect perfection?[/QUOTE]
First, you have to explain what you mean by perfect?
God is perfect, anything less than God... (view)
Sun 8 Nov, 2009 08:55 am - I'll give my personal opinon:
[QUOTE=Yogi DMT;101937]Why would he plague us with the ability to think outsides the confines of the religion's teaching?[/QUOTE]
I assume that God gave us... (view)
Sun 8 Nov, 2009 08:07 am - [QUOTE=VideCorSpoon;102425]Which is why I stated that though Plotinus was selective, he still had a degree of deference for him. No one said he didn't. [/QUOTE]
Sorry, perhaps there was a... (view)
Sun 8 Nov, 2009 07:35 am - To expand on the above - We can say one of two things about the Physical Universe (Plato's Sensible Realm):_
i) That is it infinite
ii) That it is finite
First we have to clarify what we... (view)
Sat 7 Nov, 2009 09:12 pm - This starts with an assumption - that the universe is eternal.
If we mean the physical, material universe then that's a big assumption and you need to question what exatly "eternity"... (view)
Sat 7 Nov, 2009 08:42 pm - Hello, I'm a 30 y/old Scot who is a Traditional Catholic who is interested in Plato. Aside from that, I've also dabbled in some Neo-Platonism and Peripateticism.
I look forward to... (view)
