About God; The Reasonable Faith

What is the Subject of Your Email?

~ God's Attributes
~ Trinity vs. Monotheism
~ On the Soul
~ God and Evil
~ World Religions
~ Faith and Reason
~ Bible's "Errors"
~ The Dead Sea Scrolls
~ Relativism

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What God Is:
If you wish to show that the Bible disagrees with my position or its defense, I ask that before you send mail you see my treatment of your verses in my page on the Bible's "Errors".

Or if you wish to show philosophically that God is not as I argue, I ask that you first see my argument for God's Existence, including my replies to common objections to the conclusion, the short arguments of Epictetus, and the bit on faith and reason.

I get so much email, I must request these things. Have you done what I requested? Yes. No.





Trinity and Monotheism:
Before you email me, I must would you read at least my main treatment of it, and (if you know the truth of the Old Testament) the excerpts from St. Justin's Dialogue with Trypho the Jew.

If you are Muslim, your Koran is in many places similar to the Old Testament. I recommend reading the above to you also, along with my short essay on faith and reason. It will be relevant to our discussion.

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On The Soul
Fr. Rumble's treatment is admittedly briefer than a philosopher would like. But before you email me, it is important that things are dealt with in due order.

Therefore I must ask that we get past any disagreements about God first. Several difficulties people have with the soul and its eternity are answered in my replies to objections against God's existence. This will save both of us time.

Please click here and read them first. Then, I look forward to your email.

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Is God Good or Evil?
If the problem is that you or a loved one is experiencing evil, the Church on the net is here to do what we can. First, I recommend posting a public prayer request. Then answer "yes" to the question not far below. Remember that in the light of Christ's resurrection and our future resurrection, even death is made to be only a short sleep. We will be resurrected and the virtuous will be reunited for eternity.

Or if you wish to explore or debate this topic philosophically, I look forward to it. I shall try to convince you through reason that things are not so bad. But first I ask that you make sure you save us both time by reading a few of Epictetus' and Christ's thoughts on this topic and my short essay on faith and reason. That is not too much.

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Other Religions:
I stand to learn the most from emails on other religions.

Whichever religion you believe in, before you email me, please see what replies I may already have available to you, in my work on faith and reason, my proof for God's existence, the few paragraphs of Epictetus and Christ on evil, and the reasoning about what God is like.

If you are Jewish or Muslim, I ask also that you read what I have made available for you here from St. Justin Martyr's Dialogue With Trypho the Jew.

If you wish to discuss Eastern Religions, I ask that you first read the document on Eastern Religions and the treatment of issues surrounding faith and reason. If you wish to argue for a "oneness of religions" or similar relativism, please click here.

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Faith and Reason
If you wish to discuss this matter in regards to a specific issue, such as the ethics of abortion, immoral priests proclaiming true and holy doctrine, or the theory of evolution, please check out my Current Issues Menu and Menu of History's Evils and go from there.

Before we discuss the matter generally, would you read what I have made available in terms of my general treatment, Chesterton's wisdom on Christianity's Paradoxes, and my blurb about evil clergy.

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Biblical Contradictions:
If you need help with a verse, please make sure that the topic of that verse is not one of the topics already listed in the section following the introduction in my page on Biblical "errors."

I look forward to hearing from you! Please click here to continue.





The Dead-Sea Scrolls:
Just a note: if this topic is relevant to your faith, please read the faith and reason document before e-mailing me, for you may find your answer there faster.

Please click here to e-mail me.






Relativism:
If you wish to defend the idea that truth, esp. religious truth, is relative, i.e. that what is "true for you" is really not necessarily "true for me," I say that it is "true for me" that relativism is really true for no one, in which case relativism really is true for no one.

Please also address the question of whether murder may be quite fine in every case, if truth is relative. I look forward to your response to this, which will not, I am sure, be an argument in the form of popularity contest information, nor mere vague sentiments which have not been thought out. We will have an interesting logical debate, and I look forward to it.

But before you email me, would you read Chesterton's work here on Christianity's Paradoxes. It is highly relevant.

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Thanks.