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Demons appear in your darkest moments, they cloud out God and bring darkness, they are dark angels.

I know. Our extra-constitutional separated brethren have no idea. And there's no duty attached to this and other traditions either, if you're not into this spectacle, you're not obliged to attend it if you live in that parish. If you don't like the spectacle, go to another Mass instead. No...

Yes. And God has exhaustive definite foreknowledge, but it's not some mystical superpower; it is God knowing all there is to know, and logic. He knows me and you, He made us in the womb. He knows us better than we know ourselves, "Consumer Recreation Services" style from the movie, but better...

Thanks. Interesting. (NYT wouldn't let me read the essay, I don't have an account.) I like this guy Ross Douthat though, he just left the Times for 60 Minutes I think I heard; also a convert, very smart and thoughtful.

You're right. A written or unwritten constitution is not a self-defending thing, its defense depends 100% on its people, its polity, its nation, to back it up, to protect it, to preserve it, to honor it, and to obey it. Stalin, Lenin, Hitler, Mao, were able to run roughshod because they...

ofc he was free. There is never any question "Nicholas" is free the whole entire time, even though "Consumer Recreation Services" knew exactly where to place the inflatable airbag. This is why the movie's important: I don't remember if there is vulgarity or scandalous content, I only remember...

This is basically my position and why I am not an Open theist, because you and I can successfully predict what people will do, and we certainly aren't limiting their free choice. Surely God is even more successful at predictions. The same logic must hold. The movie The Game with Sean Penn and...

I don't understand. This is the same logic that I have used since I started at TOL in no later then 1999 to defend God's foreknowledge of human free choices. I brought up the movie The Game right away, back in 1999, when I first encountered one of the first manifestations of Sozo here, I...

That's an interesting answer. Why not friends? but only "not an enemy" I wonder.

@Arthur Brain this is to you, I don't think you answered: what say you? They're our friends, right? Israel? Some bad people are trying to hurt our friends, and so we help out our friends, right? Anyone can answer, not just Arthur.

Why is that good? A communist will never say we are all made in the image of Almighty God, President Trump's right, because communists are atheists, and if they do believe in a god, it's not the Christian God Almighty Father, it's some man-made pagan idol, and they do not believe in equality...

Maybe angels bridge the gap. It doesn't make any sense that God can have intimate knowledge at all times of 50 billion swallows, but not know what's going on with Adam and Eve, Abraham, and Sodom. Or why His vineyard's growing wild grapes. It doesn't make any sense. So if instead, there are...

This is the hardest part to swallow prima facie, that God doesn't even know necessarily what's going on rn. Seems beyond the pale and a bridge too far.

Bump. I'm still curious, @JudgeRightly maybe you can help?

What if, a rogue monarch with a black heart, recruits others with black hearts, and appoints them to his personal staff, and appoints them to high positions, or even, establishes new offices and appoints these black-hearted toadies to them, to be the highest judges, and the highest generals and...

Jesus didn't say He'd build His foundation on Peter, He just said He'd build on Peter, but anybody who knows the concept of a foundation knows that's the first thing you build when you're building something. Peter calls us a temple made without hands, and Paul calls us the Body of Christ. One...

$$ 1Co 7:32 But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: $$ 1Co 7:33 But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please [his] wife. $$ 1Co 7:34 There is difference...

The Church doesn't forbid marriage for anybody under any circumstance or situation,¹ except if you are civilly divorced and the presumed valid previous marriage hasn't been annulled, or your previous spouse hasn't passed away in the meantime. Under that circumstance only, does the Church forbid...