/lit/ - Literature

>>6635789
Getting circumcised, of your own will, is a rejection of Christ and the new covenant.

>>6635820
>wiling to die

>>6635817
Do you even Aquinas? His proof for God doesn't depend on God creating everything (which he says can only be a matter of faith when it comes down to it), but maintaining everything.

>>6635766
>the Apostles just took the body out of the tomb and made it up for fun, each fully aware they were lying, and were will to die for it
Nah

>>6635774
It's about the bourgeoisie (or whatever you'd say they were back then), not embezzlement in general

>>6635731
You can thank him for Christians not having to be circumcised.

>>6635749
God creates, instills and maintains all which is good, he is by definition omnibenevolent; he is the fountainhead of all benevolence.

>>6635730
Considering he was willing to be scourged, crucified, separated from himself in total pain, feel the guilt of all sins in all times, die, and go to hell, just out of love for us, I'd say he cares a lot.

>>6635715
No, you don't understand. He didn't just create it, he *maintains* it. If God disappeared, there goes everything.

>>6635685
God is what maintains existence, he obviously cares.

"Evil" (more precisely, sin) is a turning away from God. God could not force you to love him, because that wouldn't really be love.

Anglican. It's Christ's body, but if you don't want to believe it, you aren't going to be excommunicated for it.

>>6634467
Keep in mind that food is not a person, it is a thing you pulverize and digest. There is no such thing as "fidelity to food", etc.

>>6634466
Well I obviously don't mean the nature of the soul, I'm talking about Galatians 5:17

>>6634446
There are psychologies which incline one to be a lot more sinful than homosexuality does, and homosexuality really isn't anymore sinful than having sex with a condom on is.

>>6634441
You're a Roman (I presume) Catholic, and you reject the doctrine of original sin?

>>6634424
Which denomination are you?

>>6634402
I'm not a Roman Catholic, I'm an Anglo-Catholic, so my Church doesn't really dislike gayness. But coming from a Christian point of view (and I'm more orthodox on homosexuality than most Anglo-Catholics, but less than the Church of Rome), we all can't help sinning, either. We have a sinful nature. To say, "Well then, you can't call sin 'bad'" is not how Christianity works.

>>6634395
He means reeducation camps to "civilize" natives. I doubt most Indians went through those, though.

>>6634372
Sexual orientation is not a habit.

>>6634376
I'm not sure if you understanding how abuse and drilling work. I seriously doubt they erased their memories.

>>6634346
They made their languages extinct because they stopped using them, not because they "unlearned" them.

A program intense, abusive and prolonged enough would have a similar effect upon gay people.

>>6634327
Sure

>>6634326
No, they weren't. They just stopped passing the language on.

>>6634304
Because none of them were founded by someone who died for our sins, which is sole reason for someone to be Christian.

>>6634306
Only in intensity.

>>6634296
>If something is an acquired habit then it can be unlearned.
I don't know about that, do you think you can unlearn your primary language?