Great to hear your strong affirmation of the value of the work of St Thomas Aquinas, with the qualification that we need not agree with everything he wrote. The RC Church has affirmed, even prior to 2nd Vatican Council, that, while we should follow the golden wisdom in Aquinas, some things are not to be held if they are found to be improbable. There are some who want to treat him as almost infallible, but he himself was aware that some of what he wrote was as straw, compared to what he came to see shortly before death.
Slavery was a lot different than the way people think about it today. I am God’s property, but not in the same way that my couch is my property. Thus, because of free will, God cannot and may not just use me however God wants. It’s a relationship. God knows I still have desires and I know it is only God Who satisfies them.
Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed with everlasting, or eternal, fire (Jude 7), and that fire turned these ancient cities “into ashes” as a warning to “those who afterward would live ungodly” (2 Peter 2:6). These cities are not burning today. The fire went out after everything was burned up. Likewise, everlasting fire will go out after it has turned the wicked to ashes (Malachi 4:3). The effect of the fire is everlasting, but not the burning itself. Matthew 25:46 says that the wicked will receive “everlasting punishment,” yet notice the word is ‘punishment’, not ‘punishing’. Punishing would be continuous, while punishment is one act. The punishment of the wicked is death, and this death is everlasting. Any amount of fear that our method of evangelism (our lives) uses to influence people to become or stay in the faith only demonstrates our fear and lack of understanding of true love, because only “those who fear are yet not mature in love.”
With respect, Thomas Aquinas was not Sicilian, and his birthplace (Aquino) is not in Sicily, but in Latium (the region around Rome), in continental Italy. It is true that in his days Aquino was ruled by the King of Sicily, but this did not make him any more of a Sicilian than the Aquitanians were English during the time in which they were ruled from London.
@@Contra.Mundum. Hi, actually interesting... Seeing this old comment. I have learned a lot about Saint Thomas Aquinas and a lot of catholic saints. However I'm not yet a catholic. I actually am not visiting any church, but I do believe in the "christian" God. I change about opinion all the time.
So god created adam, so that he should not sin, but the all-knowing god had no idea that adam will sin. So because adam ate apple, even an infant is sinner, so in order to help humans repent the sin, god came in the form of human and god, and being omnipotent, god inflicted misery on himself through himself so that he himself can forgive humans from his own wrath. Well, seems very logical and not at all absurd to me.
Great to hear your strong affirmation of the value of the work of St Thomas Aquinas, with the qualification that we need not agree with everything he wrote. The RC Church has affirmed, even prior to 2nd Vatican Council, that, while we should follow the golden wisdom in Aquinas, some things are not to be held if they are found to be improbable. There are some who want to treat him as almost infallible, but he himself was aware that some of what he wrote was as straw, compared to what he came to see shortly before death.
Thank you for the message on Thomas Aquarius a great Dominican Monk professor Gore.
Slavery was a lot different than the way people think about it today. I am God’s property, but not in the same way that my couch is my property. Thus, because of free will, God cannot and may not just use me however God wants. It’s a relationship. God knows I still have desires and I know it is only God Who satisfies them.
Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed with everlasting, or eternal, fire (Jude 7), and that fire turned these ancient cities “into ashes” as a warning to “those who afterward would live ungodly” (2 Peter 2:6). These cities are not burning today. The fire went out after everything was burned up. Likewise, everlasting fire will go out after it has turned the wicked to ashes (Malachi 4:3). The effect of the fire is everlasting, but not the burning itself. Matthew 25:46 says that the wicked will receive “everlasting punishment,” yet notice the word is ‘punishment’, not ‘punishing’. Punishing would be continuous, while punishment is one act. The punishment of the wicked is death, and this death is everlasting.
Any amount of fear that our method of evangelism (our lives) uses to influence people to become or stay in the faith only demonstrates our fear and lack of understanding of true love, because only “those who fear are yet not mature in love.”
With respect, Thomas Aquinas was not Sicilian, and his birthplace (Aquino) is not in Sicily, but in Latium (the region around Rome), in continental Italy. It is true that in his days Aquino was ruled by the King of Sicily, but this did not make him any more of a Sicilian than the Aquitanians were English during the time in which they were ruled from London.
Hopefully learning Anselm and Aquinas will lead many to the Catholic Church of both men.
Almost leading me.
@@Lay-ManHow's it going?
@@Contra.Mundum. Hi, actually interesting... Seeing this old comment.
I have learned a lot about Saint Thomas Aquinas and a lot of catholic saints. However I'm not yet a catholic. I actually am not visiting any church, but I do believe in the "christian" God. I change about opinion all the time.
So god created adam, so that he should not sin, but the all-knowing god had no idea that adam will sin. So because adam ate apple, even an infant is sinner, so in order to help humans repent the sin, god came in the form of human and god, and being omnipotent, god inflicted misery on himself through himself so that he himself can forgive humans from his own wrath. Well, seems very logical and not at all absurd to me.