They are not my opinions. They are facts!
Recently I was taking a walk in a park nearby our home when two young girls met me, offering a tract and (ostensibly) wanting to talk about the Kingdom. Actually they were Jehovah’s Witnesses, and what they really wanted was to convert me to their sect. Usually I politely decline and the...
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It does.
That priest is a retard who doesn't know what he's talking about. I don't want to point out what is wrong with the article because I think it would derail this conversation too much. And again I find it unlikely that the Orthodox theologians or saints would make such an outrageous claim.
The list of heretics using their logical and rational minds goes on and on, with many still at work today. Simply using our rational and logical minds to understand a God that is far beyond our comprehension are the very things heresies are made of... and how they continue to exist today. If you sit through a presentation from certain heretical groups, they will continually ask you: “Doesn’t this make sense to you?” They learned long ago the best approach is to appeal to rational and logical thinking.
You are just admitting that the heretics are correct and that Orthodoxy is wrong.
If you sit through a presentation from certain heretical groups, they will continually ask you: “Doesn’t this make sense to you?”
This sounds like an appeal to personal intuition, not to logic.
There is Truth in this universe and at some point we have to accept the fact that our rational minds may not arrive at it because some of the things of God are truly beyond our comprehension.
Take seriously these words of the Holy Prophet Isaiah (55:8-9): “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.”
Our rational or logical minds will never wrap themselves around the Holy Trinity or the Incarnation. Those are truths beyond our comprehension.
If you could understand the Holy Trinity, then the Holy Trinity would not be God.
I'm not saying that there are no mysteries or difficult/impossible to understand truths in the world. I'm just saying that reality cannot contradict logic.
If God could contradict logic then he could be omnimalevolent. Since if God can act outside of logic then it wouldn't matter that it would contradict his omnibenevolence. This can be just ignored.
If God could contradict math then he could be a unity, duality or quaternity, and maybe all of them at the same time. Since if God can act outside of math then it wouldn't matter that 1,2,3 and 4 are different numbers. This can be just ignored.
If God could contradict logic then he could contradict the dogmas and teaching of the Church. Since if God transcends logic and can act outside of it then it wouldn't matter that God is acting in a way different from infallible truth. This can be just ignored.
If you say that God can contradict logic or math then you cannot know anything about God. Logic is necessary for knowledge.
The same point reiterated by vaticancatholic.com in a video against Jay Dyer:
If you reject logic and empirical evidence in evaluating the truth of religious claims, then you have pretty much nothing to evaluate religious claims with. Except your own personal intuition. You cannot ever criticize anyone for following any religion. Since even if they contradict logic or history, it doesn't matter, because as you said you don't care about logic or empirical evidence. In this way truth becomes something completely arbitrary, not based on anything.