Is there free will in Heaven? http://catholicdiscussion.yuku.com/topic/1585/t/Is-there-a-potential-for-sin-in-Heaven.html
Why is there no repentance after death? http://catholicdiscussion.yuku.com/topic/1513/t/Why-no-repentance-after-death.html
As well as my own: If God is Eternal then that means He existed for all Eternity going backwards in Time, how is this possible?
Beth and I discussed the importance of appreciating the gift of life God gave you (and presumably this also means if your life sucks) so basically if you wind up in Hell you can say you had no say in the matter of YOU coming into existence so you're only there 'cause God created you in the first place (for this you'd need a good lawyer).
AND the really really BIG QUESTION of the day: Why is Charles Manson follower Squeaky Fromme getting out of jail but Bernard Madoff has something like 8 life sentences or something?
No no no the real question is why does Bernard Madoff get 8 life sentences for his ponzy scheme but the government gets an exemption for theirs???
ReplyDeleteRight on Soap!!
ReplyDeleteSocial Security=Ponzi scheme
Medicare=Ponzi scheme
NObama's health scare=Ponzi scheme
Time to God is not the same as time to us. I think that there are some concepts that we just will never understand.
ReplyDeleteAs for justice, there is no logic in it very much today, it is what it is.
Soapie, as usual, very perceptive.
Soapie's on a roll these days. Actually this blog was spawned because I was trying to look up an old thread at Suzanne's Catholic Discussions at ezboard, now yuku but couldn't find it. I think administrators delete very old threads after a few years go by but the gist of it was this: Re free will, God is saying to you if you do these things then this will happen, certain consequences, in some cases hell to pay so how is that a free choice?, how is that free will? Let's say I decide to sleep with my neighbor's wife, if God gives me free will but threatens damnation if I exercise it in a certain way how is that a true free will or true free choice? That forum has some very good posters, very intelligent and provocative mindgames there. Not saying I agree with the posers but they are provocative.
ReplyDeleteyou chose to screw yourself over, I guess when you do things He doesn't like!? There wouldn't have to be faith if everybody came out of the womb being good, right? Who'd need this life to mess up in, right?
ReplyDeleteThe good thing is He forgives....and all you've got to do is say "i'm with you" after a lifetime of doing "this attractive young Russian woman" at the cheese shop!
How is it NOT possible that God existed backwards in time, by the way? ?? Yuck, end of sermon. I'm not good at it.
As for you...you're a CHEF? I'm a 'good cook', not to be confused with a chef, but I love food talk like nobody you know, I'll bet. I cried once in Rome when I had my first bowl of pasta with white truffles. Told my husband when I put it in my mouth "You can't swallow this, you've got to BRONZE it". man
Well those theological questions I'm with ya but they make you think. What I like about that Catholic forum is they think of things nobody else thinks of but as for God existing all the way backwards in Time I've heard it explained that with God there is no time just one big eternal here and now, one eternal moment but we think in terms of clocks and everything so it's only natural to ask.
ReplyDeleteThanks friends. With the soapster eyeball deep in bridge collapse work, it's going to be about quality over quantity for awhile.
ReplyDeleteBut don't worry, I'm like big brother (always watching....)
Soapster I find the answers I'm given in church not fully satisfactory, thought I'd throw it out there in the blogosphere.
ReplyDeleteI don't believe you're alone on that one.
ReplyDeleteWell like I mentioned I'm not a big fan of false optimism and pat answers and these sermons are loaded with them, I say teach Reality. I still attend services (well as a newly minted godparent to my nephew I kinda have to) but I want better answers, better explanations not that I expect a priest to say "life's a bitch and then you die" but a nice midpoint might be nice.
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