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10/7/08 6:13 PM |
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I think you meant "false dilemma", Neil.Neil wrote: "As for the Crusades, you apparently think Christendom should have surrendered to Islam." Strawman, Lance. Opposition to the Crusades does not imply one prefers surrender to Islam, although for my part, I think medieval Islam might've been a bit more tolerant of Biblical Christianity than medieval Catholicism, which did not merely kill, but also tortured, in God's name. The Crusades were a direct consequence of erroneous RCC ecclesiology & soteriology: 1) The use of violence to further the Catholic "Gospel," as opposed to John 18:36 & Matt. 28:19ff; 2) The belief that pilgrimages to "Holy Places" (Muslim hindrance of which were the ostensible reason for the Crusades) or any other such devotional acts (for the supposed remission of temporal punishment in Purgatory) could be of any merit before God. It is all too easy for unbelievers to blame Protestants by association for the Crusades. We can only reply, "The RCC is anti-Christian, so the objection is irrelevant." Too few people today realize that the Crusades were a perfect example of why theology indeed matters. |
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9/18/08 1:51 PM |
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Thanks, Neil. I'll look around to see if I can find it. If I remember correctly, he took a Humean line on the Cosmological Argument as well so it wouldn't surprise me if he did so on the Teleological. Yes, I think you mean "Schoolmen". Socrates and Plato were dealing with Sophists, although there are sophists in every age. Neil wrote: BYSNE, When the Reformers contradicted the "Sophists" (I may be confusing the term with "Schoolmen"), as in Calvin's Institutes & Commentaries, and in Luther's "Bondage of the Will", they often weren't specific except in Thomas's case. So I can't be more specific, either. Sample from Calvin: "Nor let us be detained by the subtlety of Thomas, that the foreknowledge of merit is the cause of predestination..." It might be an audio lecture wherein Clark refutes the Tel. Argument, but I don't remember which one. I think he repeats Hume's critique (q.v.) of Paley's arguments. |
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