@MasterMaliq I also think he suffered from a serious moral decline after the Hijra because he was obviously quite given to carnal pleasure, which also naturally blocks a person's ability to reason properly.
@MasterMaliq Sincere, but deeply mistaken and with moral instincts which were a drastic improvement on Preislamic Arabia but are quite far from perfecting man.
@CorballyGames@MadelaineLucyH@FrMatthewLC If we were to take it as simply unconscious we could kill people who are asleep. The unborn aspect is simply moving from inside a womb to outside of one.
@OVTweetmarck God wants them to find happiness even if we are rightly repulsed by such people. He loves them while and despite the fact they are egregious sinners.
@AStratelates@CTrefugees We selected the ESV as our translation for the lectionary in the Catholic Churches of England and Wales.
It renders Bishop as Overseer.
@RejoiceCC@CTrefugees The purpose of a technical term is to help us to accurately describe reality. All modernism is doing under this view is making it harder to respond to the actual issue if we can put any viewpoint under it, especially as Arius and the Modernists are way different philosophically.
@OVTweetmarck Went to mass today in the UK and one of the congregants made a point of saying she was an excellent person amid essentially self interested modern politicians
@RejoiceCC@CTrefugees Could we not change this number from 2000 to 200 and then put the Gnostic Mystery Cults down as relatively modernistic for the Early 3rd Century AD?
This seems a bit amorphous is what I am saying.