tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post3930094326686699168..comments2024-03-28T11:58:31.928+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: The material is spiritual - therefore pseudo-high-spiritual indifference to the material is a lie and a fakeBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-67967540850068471552021-11-13T06:01:03.966+00:002021-11-13T06:01:03.966+00:00I am CTMU follower http://ctmucommunity.org/wiki/C...I am CTMU follower http://ctmucommunity.org/wiki/Common_CTMU_objections_and_repliesAlexeiprofinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-66735561481309892042021-11-08T23:13:14.610+00:002021-11-08T23:13:14.610+00:00"ultimately, God must be everything, because ..."ultimately, God must be everything, because if he is not everything, then there is a separate reality independent of him, and thus he is not God,"<br /><br />That is just a matter of definitions. God can be otherwise defined e.g. as the prime creator - which I believe to be the best brief description of God. To be the primary creator does not entail being everything - indeed if God is everything he cannot (by common sense reasoning) be a creator, since he could only re-arrange stuff already always there. <br /><br />Indeed, I think the 'omni-God' brings into Christianity the alien concept of oneness metaphysics - as with Platonism, Hinduism and Buddhism - and creates an incoherence which has plagued Christianity since early in in history. <br /><br />See also:<br /><br />https://narrowdesert.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-supergod-delusion.htmlBruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-57058415727273172682021-11-08T22:40:45.168+00:002021-11-08T22:40:45.168+00:00Matter is the outer side of consciousness, which i...Matter is the outer side of consciousness, which is needed to recognize its state by another consciousness. Also, all ideals are needed to change our world, so it is pointless to ask to be indifferent to it. If the real world was not needed, it would not exist. Also, ultimately, God must be everything, because if he is not everything, then there is a separate reality independent of him, and thus he is not God, so there is no division into material and spiritual at all, although one can distinguish between the physical and the metaphysical.Alexeiprofinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-52228638476056861922021-11-03T16:38:37.355+00:002021-11-03T16:38:37.355+00:00@William - Made invisible, of course, by the refus...@William - Made invisible, of course, by the refusal or inability to discern the primarily spiritual motivation behind the birdemic. <br /><br />@Nova has left a comment:<br /><br />"This is obviously true to any Christian capable of discernment, and who is sensitive to the Presence. Compulsory masking and coerced pecks rend the spiritual fabric of a church so badly that in most cases that church undergoes greatly diminished presence of the Holy Ghost, and in a case with which I am intimately familiar, complete supplanting of the Holy by the profane. Fear is vastly more contagious -- and infinitely more dangerous -- than the relatively trivial birdemic."<br /><br />@Nova - I think that the damaging effect of these intrusion is substantially negated by repentance - for instance if the priest was to make it clear that these compelled changes were indeed evil in intent and consequences. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-88473955026037149812021-11-03T11:36:55.832+00:002021-11-03T11:36:55.832+00:00Absolutely right. The corruption of the material i...Absolutely right. The corruption of the material is actually an attack on the spiritual. Similarly with the distortion of the natural that is everywhere these days. That is an attempt, a deliberate attempt on the part of those beings behind it, to damage the spiritual.William Wildbloodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.com