http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReligiousPhilosophy/ The Threshing Floor Sun, 02 Sep 2007 00:10:30 GMT Albert Cipriani http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReligiousPhilosophy/message/90 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReligiousPhilosophy/message/90 Steve wrote: "Here's one for you and I to hash out....The Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary. I can't think of a single reason NOT to include these mysteries in Thu, 20 Oct 2005 04:52:06 GMT Albert Cipriani http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReligiousPhilosophy/message/89 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReligiousPhilosophy/message/89 Lex asserts: "God's omniscience and Man's free will are irreconcilable." Just because God knows who WILL go to hell does not mean He WILLS them to go to hell. Thu, 01 Sep 2005 02:46:50 GMT Albert Cipriani http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReligiousPhilosophy/message/88 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReligiousPhilosophy/message/88 Lex retorts: "So belief is purely subjective? God isn't absolute and objective?" No, and no. Subjectivity and objectivity are at the opposite poles of a Mon, 25 Jul 2005 05:00:57 GMT Albert Cipriani http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReligiousPhilosophy/message/87 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReligiousPhilosophy/message/87 Lex writes: "I think that the strongest and most repeated argument against the existence of God is Occam's razor. Why can't we just accept that the Universe Tue, 05 Jul 2005 05:11:05 GMT Albert Cipriani http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReligiousPhilosophy/message/86 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReligiousPhilosophy/message/86 Lex asked: "Why do you believe in God? (I know I already asked this before)" Because the alternative is personally unsatisfying, seems rationally irrational, Mon, 09 May 2005 04:11:16 GMT Albert Cipriani http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReligiousPhilosophy/message/85 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReligiousPhilosophy/message/85 Asimis wrote: "I find myself going back and forth between accepting Vatican II and it's teachings or rejecting it and sticking to the pre-Vatican II Mon, 11 Apr 2005 02:41:33 GMT Albert Cipriani http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReligiousPhilosophy/message/84 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReligiousPhilosophy/message/84 Asimis wrote: "Taking the words of the Second Vatican Council by themselves, it seems obvious that the council does bear the mark of infallibility... I Sun, 03 Apr 2005 01:07:42 GMT Albert Cipriani http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReligiousPhilosophy/message/83 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReligiousPhilosophy/message/83 Asimis wrote: "Taking the words of the Second Vatican Council by themselves, it seems obvious that the council does bear the mark of infallibility." I Mon, 14 Mar 2005 01:32:02 GMT Albert Cipriani http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReligiousPhilosophy/message/82 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReligiousPhilosophy/message/82 Asismis asked: "If Vatican II is infallible and the council itself says that it is pastoral then is it not an infallible statement made by the infallible Sat, 25 Dec 2004 07:21:19 GMT Albert Cipriani http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReligiousPhilosophy/message/81 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReligiousPhilosophy/message/81 Asimis wrote: "If mainstream geology and evolution is true then: There was death and suffering before the fall." Yes. And this would seem to contradict our Sat, 11 Dec 2004 19:49:14 GMT Albert Cipriani http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReligiousPhilosophy/message/80 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReligiousPhilosophy/message/80 Earl wrote: "It is also difficult for me to not have my two feet squarely planted in complete agreement with my avowed faith. Therefore, I must come down on Sat, 27 Nov 2004 00:24:50 GMT Albert Cipriani http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReligiousPhilosophy/message/79 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReligiousPhilosophy/message/79 This citation by Bellarmine sums up my view of the matter: "A pope who is a manifest heretic automatically ceases to be pope and head, just as he ceases Mon, 22 Nov 2004 04:09:22 GMT Albert Cipriani http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReligiousPhilosophy/message/78 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReligiousPhilosophy/message/78 Derrick wrote: "I can't believe any participants of the Jewish Faith would agree with that [my premise that Catholicism is a fulfillment of Judaism], nor the Fri, 29 Oct 2004 03:49:43 GMT Albert Cipriani http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReligiousPhilosophy/message/77 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReligiousPhilosophy/message/77 Javad argues: "The distortion of any [Divine] message would be a work of humanity coming directly from man's freewill. Thus the Deity would need to resend the Mon, 25 Oct 2004 19:33:26 GMT Albert Cipriani http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReligiousPhilosophy/message/76 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReligiousPhilosophy/message/76 Just as how Catholicism derived from Judaism and Islam derived from them both, "Christianity" (the appellation has been expropriated by Protestants to mean