ritualistic
It is redundant in the sense that it has Tradition and meaning... I might be so off
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- Sep 2023
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Notice that all three are different terms. Someone could talk about the Morning Star without realizing it is the same thing as the Evening Star, and they might not realize that both are names that were used to refer to Venus. It took work — work on the part of astronomers — to reveal that these names all refer to one and the same thing. I think a similar thing can be said about God and love
Could this relate to or be true to the Trinity?
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I know that to most people who describe themselves as theists, I would be viewed as an atheist, and most people who are atheists would think of me as a theist.
Perception is key in this argument which I think is so interesting, for the longest time I had thought of the two, theists and atheists are so separate and argumentative.
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Does atheism reject that there is anything that is holy or sacred, where this means there is nothing that is whole and healthy and nothing that is worthy of being set apart or revered?
Good question
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let me just say that they think proper worship of the cosmic Logos involves living one’s life in a rational way. So, in other words, exercising one’s own logos, or reason, in a way that imitates the divine Logos.
I hope I am not wrong in saying this but is this the same idea that we have with "natural law", or "divine demand"? If so, how did one distinguish what is "rational"?
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I hate that it has become so ingrained.
Is "Jack" speaking about the idea of gender through the comment "They are gods of men" or is he speaking about the ingrained idea of gods and there relation to humans? Whatever that relation is?
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“Whereof one cannot speak…”
I had to look this phrase up to get a better understanding of what it meant/ means and I am still a little lost. From what I looked up it means that one should not value predetermined knowledge or ideas and instead value what is being taught or expressed? Let me know if I am way off...
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Within this corporate body, the individuals are united in such a way that they are transformed into members (metaphor to limbs, hands, legs, etc.) and Christ was their head, i.e., the logos: the creative, ordering wisdom.
Bishop Baron...
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When they gathered together, the disciples who had previously (following Jesus’s death) been dispersed and in a state of despair had an experience that God was not with them in the physical way Jesus was, but was with them as them, present in spirit (life-giving breath of the community itself). As such, they no longer despaired but felt their original hope radically transformed, taking on a new dimension and object.
I would like to examine this further because I think it is a struggle for many now still...
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ipso facto
"the very fact or act"
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The precepts of “natural” law are the prohibitions revealed by reflecting on our very nature.
Look up Natural Law videos... our group did
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The disciples of Jesus recognized that through his teachings and his behavior – or their experiences of them – they were renewed and felt hopeful. a. They felt this way even though they did not know, understand, or in some cases even anticipate that he was “the savior of the world,” as later Christ-followers would put it.
We agree...
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Concerns about purity and piety are often misplaced.
We are having trouble distinguishing what this means, too vague for our understanding
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It is permissible and even good/necessary to transgress social boundaries and norms in some cases.
Our group discussed the idea of human implications of what social norms are versus what God identifies as "social norms"
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