In what way, do you propose, instinct isn't indomitable? Instinct does rule, save for perhaps Buddhas, or otherwise individuals who know how to balance Dionysus with Apollo; actually, modernity, with its increasingly rigid human order lain over the only one, is pissing instinct off quite significantly. No matter if it be secular rationalism or residue of mythological systems (religion), humans construct aggregations of beliefs to help them deny death or inevitability they don't like The most advanced humans don't say death is a disease and look to promissory materialism for an answer, or think we will move to Mars (no doubt it could be a planet of war in the future if humans move there), they figure out how to make a wreath around themselves with it and contemplate death often. Convenience and comfort also stand in the way of alignment with evolution and instinct.If you think that we are subject to evolution, that our capacity for abstract thought, for words and actions other than those ruled by instinct serves no purpose except to follow instinct, then I can only conclude that you have shackled your own intelligence to a limited physical existence. — Possibility
I don't need one, it came out of the dictionary.I see no chapter or verse.
The rest of what you put ignored Job 2;3 and god admitting to be an evil sinner. Why?
Then God refuse — hachit
when they don't even actually know the truth. — Maureen
Some christians believe — christian2017
That's a comforting thought, but I think God got carried away dishing out the suffering. — Tom Palmer
i wish i could say your wrong but at this point in my life i don't have alot of evidence to try to show you otherwise. — christian2017
I'm still waiting for the OP to define "Gnostic Christianity" for me. — whollyrolling
Correct me if i'm wrong but don't Gnostic's believe in the supernatural? — christian2017
I'm still waiting for the OP to define "Gnostic Christianity" for me. — whollyrolling
So what you're effectively saying is that it isn't Christianity and fits nowhere within or alongside Christianity. — whollyrolling
So then I'm left wondering why you'd label yourself with a blatant contradiction of terms other than to troll people or to self-deprecate. — whollyrolling
If I was uninformed then you wouldn't be "reminding" me, you'd be "informing" me. I guess this is what you do, you go look on the internet for obscure religious cults very few people know or care about, create a contradiction-of-terms-troll-nickname and "remind" us all of the existence one of likely six thousand forgotten renditions of a forgotten pagan sun god religion, which were all of course based on forgotten religions that predate them. Interesting. — whollyrolling
i feel i explained my take on this in a previous post. Perhaps we can argue about the same thing some other day. — christian2017
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