BetteTheRed
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The opposite of love is not hate, but apathy.
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The opposite of love is not hate, but apathy.
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Agreed that indifference is the opposite of love. Psychologically speaking.
blackbelt1961
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Neutral would mean the middle of both Good and Evil , evil is completely absence of good
BetteTheRed
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And where exactly would you find the complete absence of good?
For example, because we always jump to it, on a macro level, I'm sure Hitler's mother loved him; on a micro level, I'm entirely sure that his gut bacteria thought he was just fine...
It's a question that rabbis ask? Duality is ultimately pretty f***ed up, because the lines are never clear.
For example, because we always jump to it, on a macro level, I'm sure Hitler's mother loved him; on a micro level, I'm entirely sure that his gut bacteria thought he was just fine...
It's a question that rabbis ask? Duality is ultimately pretty f***ed up, because the lines are never clear.
blackbelt1961
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Place that you guys don't believe exists
BetteTheRed
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So, there's a 'place' with a complete absence of good, that is outside anything that we know of reality. Confused. Like I said, I cannot tease total evil out of anything. Can you? Maybe this is critical? Dead is bad, but dead feeds worms, the circle of life, etc .Where "evil" fits into the Circle of Life escapes me.
blackbelt1961
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That could cause a mental conflict ... the mental aspect coupled to the psyche (as mythical essence) as something that isn't in the state of mind of those that believe in integral love ... no room for half-mindedness passions about understanding ... as authority state we shouldn't know ... and that was dispositioned ... causing great questions as Y's or wise as divine and humanly in err and thus fallout of Aaron ... just to inflate the spontaneous thought ... patterns or rifts in that beyond us?
The void collapses in the end as the crap passes ... non altruism? The essence of virtue! Tis slight ... as a Pale Hors ...
Wailing, Wahl-NG and whining is discounted by those that don;t wish to hear it in lesser folk ... lower castes ... move off a bit!
The opposite of apathy is pathe ... tis a pain to understand those determined not to ... understand that is!
Thus nebulous demos? Tis a foggy nature humans have on the topic of wisdom ...
Literature thus would be the only place where evil and good could be explicitly declared in the virtue of a story or legion of legends ... thus the depth of legions as leagues all their own!
Mortals mist this as something immortal ... or beyond their cognizance! Thus the duff in the fruitcake that can't envision it ... as something else!
Heaps of word ad crap ... when some John claimed word was god and the anagram also was virtue ... so the need to observe both ways?
Leaves some people's wills half wrecked ... halve mined psyches?
Planning a return to a denomination which practices infant baptism, in that case?
I believe @unsafe is correct. There is no support in scripture for infant baptism. Tradition is another story, of course.
Paradox3, I believe that Scripture provides sound reasons why infants should be baptized.
Jesus told his missionaries to make missionaries of all people-groups - which I believe must logically include young children. "Therefore go ye, and teach all folks, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost;" - Matthew 28:19 (WYC).
Jesus told his missionaries not to stop children from coming to him. "And when Jesus had seen them, he bare heavy, and said to them, Suffer ye little children to come to me, and forbid ye them not, for of such is the kingdom of God. Truly I say to you, whoever receiveth not the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter into it." - Mark 10:14-15 (WYC).
Baptism, I believe, offers forgiveness and babies, I believe, are broken like the rest of us. "For lo! I was conceived in sinfulness; yea, my mother conceived me in sin." - Psalm 51:5 (WYC).
I trust that faith is the Spirit of God's work, and I hold that she can work faith in infants. "But whoso causeth to stumble one of these small, that believe in me, it speedeth to him that a millstone of asses be hanged in his neck, and he be drowned in the deepness of the sea." - Matthew 18:6 (WYC).
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Summary: Matthew 25:1-46
1. The parable of the wise and foolish virgins. Ten virgins went out to meet the bridegroom. Five were prepared and took their lamps with oil in them. Five were not prepared. "Watch, therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming." (25:13 NKJ)
2. The parable of the talents. A man traveling to a far country left five talents with one of his servants, two talents with the second and one talent with the third. The first two made a profit on the talents but the third buried his one talent. The unprofitable servant was cast into the outer darkness with wailing and gnashing of teeth.
3. The Son of Man will judge the nations and separate the sheep from the goats. Some will go into everlasting punishment and some will have eternal life. Doing (or not) unto others will be the standard for judgement. "Inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of My brethren, you did it to me."
1. The parable of the wise and foolish virgins. Ten virgins went out to meet the bridegroom. Five were prepared and took their lamps with oil in them. Five were not prepared. "Watch, therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming." (25:13 NKJ)
2. The parable of the talents. A man traveling to a far country left five talents with one of his servants, two talents with the second and one talent with the third. The first two made a profit on the talents but the third buried his one talent. The unprofitable servant was cast into the outer darkness with wailing and gnashing of teeth.
3. The Son of Man will judge the nations and separate the sheep from the goats. Some will go into everlasting punishment and some will have eternal life. Doing (or not) unto others will be the standard for judgement. "Inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of My brethren, you did it to me."
Thus half a hand of foolish virgins!
Sounds like a good approximation ... given the separation! Yin Jang ... jingles ...
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Reflection: Matthew 25:1-46
Jesus continues preaching about end times and the final judgement.
The three parables are all familiar ones but somehow I had never connected them with end times. Or even realized where they fell in the narrative of the gospel.
A few months ago in church, our guest preacher talked about Good Goats: Healing Our Image of God by Dennis Linn, Matthew Linn and Sheila Fabricant Linn. The message was that we are all goats and sheep at various times in our lives and people can't be separated easily into the two groups. The righteous might even be considered "good goats".
Jesus continues preaching about end times and the final judgement.
The three parables are all familiar ones but somehow I had never connected them with end times. Or even realized where they fell in the narrative of the gospel.
A few months ago in church, our guest preacher talked about Good Goats: Healing Our Image of God by Dennis Linn, Matthew Linn and Sheila Fabricant Linn. The message was that we are all goats and sheep at various times in our lives and people can't be separated easily into the two groups. The righteous might even be considered "good goats".