and in hte meantime, his consciousness (separate and apart from his brain and body) was chilling in hell, blasting devils like some first person shooter game.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3892289&forum_id=2#35396441)

hth

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3892289&forum_id=2#35396428)

ever heard of the Apostles' or Nicene Creeds?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3892289&forum_id=2#35396435)

I've gone to church my whole life. If you disagree with anything in the Apostles Creed, you are not a Christian of any sort.

You're "spiritual, but not religious"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3892289&forum_id=2#35396489)

stfu

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3892289&forum_id=2#35396500)

now, you're questioning my "independent thinking" after I named two prominent theologians would lol at you for questioning the above.

fwiw, I have an extraordinarily nuanced religious worldview that incorporates elements of Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, and even Eastern concepts.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3892289&forum_id=2#35396537)

I am confident in my beliefs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3892289&forum_id=2#35396552)

the other niggers in Hell listened with interest to this learned scholar come among them

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3892289&forum_id=2#35396533)

you can say you believe in other stuff but not that but thats not christianity.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3892289&forum_id=2#35396491)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3892289&forum_id=2#35396442)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transubstantiation

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3892289&forum_id=2#35396531)

If you think someone does, link them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3892289&forum_id=2#35396822)

The statements of science are literally true whereas those of religious faith are what tillich called symbolic expressions of our ultimate concern, ie attempts to describe whatever it is that we love with all our hearts and minds and strength.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3892289&forum_id=2#35400675)

"Tillich contends quite simply that all religious affirmations are ‘nonliteral’. In this respect he regards the idea of symbolism as akin to the Thomistic doctrine of analogy. He protests against anyone using the phrase ‘only a symbol’. Such a statement is to be avoided, for the simple reason that ‘non-analogous and non-symbolic knowledge of God has less truth than analogous or symbolic knowledge’."

The idea is that just like we understand fundamental physical things only through math (we cannot understand it intuitively) we understand fundamental nonphysical things through religion (we cannot understand it literally)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3892289&forum_id=2#35401268)

Makes. No. Sense.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3892289&forum_id=2#35400696)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3892289&forum_id=2#35400718)

Rather they are scared (rightfully so) of what that would then mean for how they live their lives.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3892289&forum_id=2#35400745)