Recent content by Gukkor

I'm also a universalist, so if we're talking about the standard definition of Hell, I guess you could say I don't reconcile the two at all.

I chose moderate, but it would be more accurate to call me a centrist. My stances are a fairly even mix of conservative and liberal, but my political identity is tied more to my distrust of any political extreme or party than to my actual views.

Seven pounds of flesh.

Personally, I've never seen the whole separation/unity dichotomy as having much substance. To me, it seems like the two views compliment each other, rather than necessarily being opposed to each other.

There's no such thing as an axiom, not for me, anyway. I am almost entirely certain I am correct when it comes to a few of my core beliefs, but I don't consider even those beliefs to be totally self-evident or beyond scrutiny. There are precious few things we humans can know with absolute...

For a young self-proclaimed scholar to claim outright that his understanding of something, however well-supported, is the valid understanding is to set a very disturbing precedent, in my opinion.

Evil has no strength, in my opinion, because it doesn't exist on its own; it is merely the lack of Good. Any act of good pushes evil further and further out of Creation, like filling in the negative space of a picture. If evil seems to "get stronger," it is only because people are choosing not...

Well, there's love, but really, who marries people for love anymore? :dontcare:

Update: She had a lumpectomy last Friday, and is sheduled to start radiation therapy soon. Nothing else to report. Thanks for the prayers, all.

I've no interest in a debate, just so you know, but to answer your questions, I'm a universalist in that I believe that all will eventually be saved. In other words, I don't believe in an eternal Hell, whether it be one of torture or simply destruction. Yes, I do believe in the sovereignty...

Can't really think of any, though I would think that a universalist church would be a good place to start looking. Personally, I'm both universalist and a believer in free will, but I can easily see how that would be a minority position.

1. The contestants had access to everyone's medical files revealing who was the most "scientifically beautiful". Would you snoop? Probably, though I certainly don't think I'd be going around making people feel bad for what their files say. 2. As the contestants are entering a building...

That's true. I also think there's a certain beauty to the whole thing. All life eventually sacrifices itself for other life. Even we humans, at the top of the food chain, eventually return to the earth, and our bodies become food that provides for the survival of the lowest lifeforms. I see...

The real question, I guess, is "why would God create a universe in which we not only have the choice to end the lives of other beings, but we must in order to continue living ourselves?"

"It's not possible to adopt any diet that will both assure nutritional health and absolve one from the act of killing. The universe is built on, founded upon, killing and destruction. It's ingrained in our psyches, and those of animals and even microbes (if they have psyches). The question is...