The
FOOL
has said in his heart ‘there is no God.’
‘Tis a valiant effort to contend with some of them sometimes for those on the fence’s benefit.
Providing one doesn’t get one’s feet or fingers too dirty in the process.
Thanks for your efforts in such regards and for your kind words.
Indeed. This is the biblical definition of the nabal, of the FOOL.
The nabal is a fool because he denies the ground on which he MUST, as a human being, stand in order to be a human being.
The concept of nabal is reflected beyond the Bible in pre-Socratic and classical philosophy, in such seminal thinkers as Heraclitus, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. For these thinkers, the condition of "nabal" was a pneumopathological disorder, or we might say a disease of the soul. They called this condition "nosos," or "nosemos." It is indicative of a state of agnoia, the very opposite of nous — that is, of reason, intellect, mind. Implicit in their description is a massive flight from reality and from reason itself. The latter is made explicit in Cicero; he called it the aspernatio rationis, the willful flight from reason, a/k/a contempt for reason.
But many people make very good livings out of this sort of thing, nowadays.
Anyhoot, just a bunch of stuff from recollection that appears on-point to the present discussion.
BTW, I never worry about getting my fingers dirty. I just try to be faithful to my Lord — Jesus Christ, Logos, Alpha and Omega, our Savior, Redeemer, and Final Judge.
God's Name is I AM.