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Christianity: Worship Of Truth, Hence Objectivity, Determinism--"Free" Will Mere Conceit
(Apollonian, 8 Feb 14)
Hello: forgive me for butting in, but I understand Beth appreciates the free-will vs. determinism problem/issue regarding Christian philosophy--if I'm not presuming too much here.
Note we have (at least) two solid philosophic sources fm New Test., St. Paul, who can be complicated, and then, my favorite, dear Gosp. JOHN, who's more brief, JOHN holding Christ is allegory of TRUTH, the only way to Godly happiness (JOHN 14:6).
So truth requires an objective reality (as criterion for truth) which must be DETERMINED (absolute cause-effect) vs. a perfectly "free" will--St. Paul agrees, noting we're all sinners and no one is perfect, "no not one."
St. Augustine clarifies it all when he opposes Pelagius and his doctrine of "good works," which Augustine denies, saying we're hopelessly doomed to perdition, and only God's grace can save us--later, Martin Luther agreed most emphatically w. Augustine.
Humans then, don't and can't have a perfectly "free," Godly-type will, and remember the issue isn't "good vs. evil," but rather TRUTH vs. lies, satan the "father of lies" (JOHN 8:44).
It's simply HUBRIS (madness) & Pharisaism then to pretend to "good." We can only strive to temper our natural will to self-interest w. REASON much as possible--"altruism" (selflessness) is impossible and dis-honest.
And serious psycho-pathology then would have to be that conscious & deliberate refusal to heed to objective reality insisting that one's will and desire is the only thing to be pursued, the only reality. For "good-evil" could only exist in a subjectivist reality, there being no possible TRUTH in subjectivism whence anything goes, and everything is both true and false at the same time.
Sandy Hook fraud is sustained & elaborate attempt to overthrow Christian TRUTH and that God-given, hence objective reality. I hope this Christian philosophic exposition helps.
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