Does the need to accept responsibility knowing there is no spiritual get out of jail free card make us more virtuous or does it cause us to drown in guilt and despair? — MysticMonist
Now that I'm an official Platonist, I realize that I don't always choose to be virtuous or just. — MysticMonist
how does one repent for misdeeds? — MysticMonist
For anyone who has a philosophical ethics and doesn't believe in sacrificial atonement nor Divine justification (or doesn't believe in God at all) how does one repent for misdeeds? — MysticMonist
How can you acknowledge your failure if you don't feel repentance? The latter is an emotional response to the acknowledgement. — TimeLine
God infinitely merciful and forgiving? — MountainDwarf
Perhaps because Universalism denies human freedom? — MysticMonist
As a parent I have two sons, how could any of them ever do anything so terrible to have me wish them eternal torment? — MysticMonist
If you believe in Christian atonement thru Jesus, which I don't, then did Jesus only die for one list but not others or put conditions on dying only for those meet them? If God is all powerful then how can we as humans oppose His will to save us? — MysticMonist
Cain and Abel, one son killed the other? — MountainDwarf
I sense God's presence and love for me and I don't worry about my eternal fate. — MysticMonist
Yet. I don't think a world with childhood cancer and genoicide could possibly be the best of all possible world. — MysticMonist
The world is "perfect" because God exists and He sustains creation with His presence. Existence is perfect. — MysticMonist
is no afterlife in the Jewish faith tradition, no hell, no heaven — szardosszemagad
I have heard that Jews actually believe in a form of Pantheism/Panentheism? Is this true? — MountainDwarf
Now Spinoza is almost a pantheist. He says existence is all modes of God's being. I'm tempted to agree with him, but I'm still contemplating it. Spinoza was kicked out of his Jewish community. — MysticMonist
God sustains everything vs. God is in everythin — MountainDwarf
Since Judaism came up and I espouse Truth in all revelations, is there a difference between Abrahamic Monotheism and other monotheisms (Zoroastrianism or Saviate/Shivaism in Hinduism or maybe a theistic reading of Taoism). Is God always God? Or is one monotheistic God true and the others impostors? Is polytheism just looking at different aspects of One God? — MysticMonist
My guess is you're Reformed Judaism? — MountainDwarf
I was noahide for a while. A gentile follower of Judaism. Still has a big place in my heart.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Laws_of_Noah — MysticMonist
I go with my family to an episcopal church. I lost my faith and ended up trying religion after religion. It's all cool now that I'm a Platonist though, it's One Source for all of it. — MysticMonist
Genesis chapter 9 is where the rabbis claim they are, right? — MountainDwarf
(Except you wonderful people of course) — MysticMonist
Long story short, I was probably going to convert but my wife is Christian so that wasn't going to work out. I started religion hoping. She doesn't care about philosophy though, no one does. — MysticMonist
I think you are thinking of ancient Judaism or of the Sadducees who didn't believe in an afterlife. — MysticMonist
I've spent a lot of time thinking about this and trying to learn how to deal with the many mistakes I've made that hurt someone. Taking responsibility is not an emotional response. It's a surrender - opening yourself up to the consequences of your actions. Repentance to me means guilt. To me, guilt is a way of avoiding responsibility. Guilt can be forgiven, responsibility cannot. Does repentance mean something other than feeling guilty to you? — T Clark
I am sorry, — szardosszemagad
Sorry to hear. — MountainDwarf
Penitence is not guilt but an admission and an authentic one not masked by our imagination that enables us to take one step closer toward being virtuous and wise, to form a genuine moral consciousness. — TimeLine
Penitence is not guilt but an admission and an authentic one not masked by our imagination that enables us to take one step closer toward being virtuous and wise, to form a genuine moral consciousness. — TimeLine
for being virtuous and wise, my vision is different - Peace. — T Clark
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