[Ken4TA]

I cannot believe this because the first time you said it, as you were busying yourself telling me you understood it better than I, you expressed in incorrectly, and now you treat the most basic aspect of the thing,the distinction between eternal and temporal punishment as something recondite and intricate.

This is just crazy.

Yep, it sure is crazy the way you are twisting things around.

[Mad Dawg]

Yep, it sure is crazy the way you are twisting things around.

Well, I'll give you this: When you make up your mind about how philosophers just twist stuff, you don't quit.

(The truth hurts those who don't like truth!)

Here's a truth: Aquinas doesn't think there's a 'self' which 'has' a 'soul'. A soul is not a thing to be had because a "substantial form" is not a thing.

I don't think there's a way to criticize a philosophical theologian like Aquinas if one doesn't go deeply into the philosophy.

Not everybody needs to do that, but those who don't have as much business judging Aquinas as I have judging NASCAR drivers -- which is to say, none.