Posted on 08/15/2024 8:48:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Existentialism is that ideology by which its adherents attempt to justify their denial of God for the purpose of pursuing their own lusts.
Intelligence is best measured in terms of both performance and outcome.
“How long, little men in wit, love young childhood, and fools shall covet those things, that be harmful to themselves, and unprudent men shall hate knowing? (How long, ye of little wit, or of low intelligence, shall ye love foolishness, and shall fools desire those things that be harmful to themselves, and shall the imprudent hate knowledge, or understanding?)”
Proverbs 1:22
Satanism is at the lowest rung, below everything else.
Those who follow satanism suffer the consequences of believing lies.
When your belief system tells you to lie to others, you can bet your a$$ it’s also lying to you.
It is what commies do, and it matters not the persons or the year.
The MSM are all pushing for political and religious persecution.
President Trump is right when he says that, "right now he is the only thing standing in the way of those communist demonicrats, with their MSM/Pravda mouthpieces, from coming after the rest of us."
Yes, Britain still has a government dominated by globalist.
“Existentialism is that ideology by which its adherents attempt to justify their denial of God for the purpose of pursuing their own lusts.”
Characterizing Existentialism as an ideology notwithstanding, the core principle of Existentialism remains: Man, as created in the image of God, has free agency.
Every individual can choose to accept or reject salvation.
As Christians see it, some choose poorly.
Frank Tureck succinctly noted, “God loves you too much to force you to spend eternity with Him.”
In my own congregation are people of great faith; some I consider “geniuses” and some less so. Yet each one exercised their free agency in making a choice to accept Christ.
Be well, FRiend.
My dear Ignatz, existentialism is in great conflict with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
This conflict can be explained logically.
Existentialism’s primary emphasis is on the absence of meaning in life, and its only solution to the problem is in its feeble suggestion that meaning is limited to experience. This is really a non-solution, because it leaves intact all our maladies, discomforts and uncertainties to do to us what they’ve done from the start (and then you die).
What the Gospel of Christ offers is unimaginable joy in everlasting life with our Creator, with no mourning, no crying, no sorrow. It gives us truth which is the rightful product of intelligence; the Biblical account is vastly more plausible than any other cosmology or moral philosophy.
As you surely know, we have Christ when we turn away from our sin and trust in him. The only reason people choose to deny our Creator and follow philosophies such as existentialism is they don’t want to live by his rules.
You give me much to consider, rif.
I do feel as if we are “talking past each other”, though.
Permit me to ask a few questions, if I may? I’m not trying to trick you, just trying to understand you better.🙂
In the simplest terms, what was the original sin of Man?
Was it not disobeying God?
I think it was indeed that very sin. I believe you are correct.
If I rephrase your reply as, “Man chose to disobey God”, have I distorted your meaning do you think?
I hope not, that was not my intent. My purpose is to signal that I am discussing “Man as God’s creation” rather than the linguistics of the “Adam and Eve” story as allegory.
Either way, I propose the original sin was a choice Man made. Would you agree?
What I hear from the theologans is that Adam chose to disobey God.
But original sin seems also to be a reference to the ongoing human inclination to violate God’s law.
The problems go deeper than even the journalists, the journalism schools at colleges and universities are all indoctrination venues. They make sure young minds are turned before they even get their first job as a journalist.
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