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Nick_A
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Is Christianity logical?

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Is perennial Christianity logical? By perennial I mean the essence of Christianity always existing as opposed to more modern man made interpretations called Christendom by those like Kierkegaard.
I believe that one identical thought is to be found—expressed very precisely and with only slight differences of modality—in. . .Pythagoras, Plato, and the Greek Stoics. . .in the Upanishads, and the Bhagavad Gita; in the Chinese Taoist writings and. . .Buddhism. . .in the dogmas of the Christian faith and in the writings of the greatest Christian mystics. . .I believe that this thought is the truth, and that it today requires a modern and Western form of expression. That is to say, it should be expressed through the only approximately good thing we can call our own, namely science. This is all the less difficult because it is itself the origin of science. Simone Weil….Simone Pétrement, Simone Weil: A Life, Random House, 1976, p. 488

"To restore to science as a whole, for mathematics as well as psychology and sociology, the sense of its origin and veritable destiny as a bridge leading toward God---not by diminishing, but by increasing precision in demonstration, verification and supposition---that would indeed be a task worth accomplishing." Simone Weil
If the universe is structured on laws we have yet to understand, this doesn't deny faith. Noesis allows us to sense the truth of what we cannot understand.
Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.

The scientists’ religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection. Albert Einstein
Modern beliefs suggests that science will disprove the reality of the conscious source for our existence. Those like Simone and Einstein suggest that science may prove the necessity for a conscious Source. Are they mad or do they just sense conscious evolution as a part of a human future?
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Nick_A wrote: Sat May 14, 2022 8:16 pm Is perennial Christianity logical? By perennial I mean the essence of Christianity always existing as opposed to more modern man made interpretations called Christendom by those like Kierkegaard.
I believe that one identical thought is to be found—expressed very precisely and with only slight differences of modality—in. . .Pythagoras, Plato, and the Greek Stoics. . .in the Upanishads, and the Bhagavad Gita; in the Chinese Taoist writings and. . .Buddhism. . .in the dogmas of the Christian faith and in the writings of the greatest Christian mystics. . .I believe that this thought is the truth, and that it today requires a modern and Western form of expression. That is to say, it should be expressed through the only approximately good thing we can call our own, namely science. This is all the less difficult because it is itself the origin of science. Simone Weil….Simone Pétrement, Simone Weil: A Life, Random House, 1976, p. 488

"To restore to science as a whole, for mathematics as well as psychology and sociology, the sense of its origin and veritable destiny as a bridge leading toward God---not by diminishing, but by increasing precision in demonstration, verification and supposition---that would indeed be a task worth accomplishing." Simone Weil
If the universe is structured on laws we have yet to understand, this doesn't deny faith. Noesis allows us to sense the truth of what we cannot understand.
Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.

The scientists’ religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection. Albert Einstein
Modern beliefs suggests that science will disprove the reality of the conscious source for our existence. Those like Simone and Einstein suggest that science may prove the necessity for a conscious Source. Are they mad or do they just sense conscious evolution as a part of a human future?
the many versions of Christianity may not seem logical. a Creator and Judge is logical. the existence of life itself should tell you there is a source. power to be exists forever. and what the heck is "conscious evolution"?
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DPMartin wrote: Mon May 16, 2022 4:43 pm
Nick_A wrote: Sat May 14, 2022 8:16 pm Is perennial Christianity logical? By perennial I mean the essence of Christianity always existing as opposed to more modern man made interpretations called Christendom by those like Kierkegaard.
I believe that one identical thought is to be found—expressed very precisely and with only slight differences of modality—in. . .Pythagoras, Plato, and the Greek Stoics. . .in the Upanishads, and the Bhagavad Gita; in the Chinese Taoist writings and. . .Buddhism. . .in the dogmas of the Christian faith and in the writings of the greatest Christian mystics. . .I believe that this thought is the truth, and that it today requires a modern and Western form of expression. That is to say, it should be expressed through the only approximately good thing we can call our own, namely science. This is all the less difficult because it is itself the origin of science. Simone Weil….Simone Pétrement, Simone Weil: A Life, Random House, 1976, p. 488

"To restore to science as a whole, for mathematics as well as psychology and sociology, the sense of its origin and veritable destiny as a bridge leading toward God---not by diminishing, but by increasing precision in demonstration, verification and supposition---that would indeed be a task worth accomplishing." Simone Weil
If the universe is structured on laws we have yet to understand, this doesn't deny faith. Noesis allows us to sense the truth of what we cannot understand.
Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.

The scientists’ religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection. Albert Einstein
Modern beliefs suggests that science will disprove the reality of the conscious source for our existence. Those like Simone and Einstein suggest that science may prove the necessity for a conscious Source. Are they mad or do they just sense conscious evolution as a part of a human future?
the many versions of Christianity may not seem logical. a Creator and Judge is logical. the existence of life itself should tell you there is a source. power to be exists forever. and what the heck is "conscious evolution"?

I'm inclined toward body creationism. And, moreover, the link between adulthood and theology.
Theology, consists of the negative over positive reality cliche. Is the logical conclusion, of this pattern, that the environment - non-living matter - is trying to have life reveal the location of its kickstart.

The kickstart: it is a reference of course to beginning deriving from spontaneity, and spontaneity is non-ironically linked to the criticism.
A recent understanding, I possessed, was that God's plotting - negative over positive story (Julianne Moore's edit, from Hannibal) - being an insert in the masses mind is able to copy the gap science of left-wing transcendence having a writing to action chronology.

Conscious evolution: the mass stationary, of physics in the reality world is stopped, by Gods/Lalo's switching the channels. Can Christianity and Islam being a visual equality work with TV's literal switching the channels to communicate to The Symmetry about the Gods' behaviour.

Indeed: evolution is a real factor, in the story of left-wing transcendence, in which a secret's placement of Actual Mistake logistics throughout the sociology content's theme to theme through day to day must be obeyed.


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