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Acts 17:21-22 Curiosity is a kind of superstition and idolatry. Socrates, on whom the fashionable philosophers agreed to confer the title of a wise man, confessed that he knew nothing. Solomon, to whom the Spirit of God awarded this title with greater justification, has left us a testimony in Ecclesiastes that is even sadder. Nothing new —— and labor, sorrow, pain to be wise. The father of the new philosophy was forced to forget, renounce, and reject all that he knew and regarded this as the only means to discover the truth. Yet this truth is also nothing but an edifice of re-polished and reclaimed errors. If curiosity is a mother or wet-nurse of knowledge, we can easily draw a conclusion about its fruit from its root and sap.

Hamann, Johann Georg. London Writings: The Spiritual & Theological Journal of Johann Georg Hamann (p. 343). Ballast Press. Kindle Edition.

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I would like to make a few general remarks about divine revelation as they occur to me. God has revealed Himself to human beings in nature and His Word. We have not yet analyzed the similarities and connections between both of these revelations so extensively and explained so clearly, nor have we penetrated into this harmony, so that sound philosophy could open up a wide field for itself. In countless instances both revelations must be rescued in the same way from the greatest objections to them. Both revelations explain and support each other; they cannot contradict each other, no matter how much the interpretations of our reason would like to claim that they do. Rather, it is the greatest contradiction and abuse of reason when reason itself wishes to reveal anything. A philosopher who puts the divine Word away from his eyes in order to please reason, is like the Jews who seem to cling more rigidly to the Old Testament the more obstinately they reject the New Testament. In them the prophecy was fulfilled that what was meant to confirm and complete their other insights is an offense and foolishness in their eyes. The study of nature and history are the two pillars of true religion. Unbelief and superstition are based on shallow physics and shallow history. Nature is as little subject to blind accident or to eternal laws as all events can be explained in personal and political terms. Newton is deeply moved as a historian by the wise omnipotence of God and equally so as a scientist by God’s wise government.10

Hamann, Johann Georg. London Writings: The Spiritual & Theological Journal of Johann Georg Hamann (p. 55). Ballast Press. Kindle Edition.

A portion from something I'm currently writing,

"Logical impossibility “This car is red and this car is not red”.
Conceptual impossibility “This bachelor is married”.
Metaphysical impossibility “You have someone else’s consciousness”.
Nomological impossibility “an electron has more mass than a proton”"

Ten Rules for Studying Theology

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“We must go on to demonstrate that God is intelligent. We have already proved that all perfections of all beings whatsoever pre-exist in God superabundantly. Among all the perfections found in beings, intelligence is deemed to possess a special pre-eminence, for the reason that intellectual beings are more powerful than all others. Therefore God must be intelligent.” —St. Thomas Aquinas

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Argument from Motion

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Senguerdius:

That God exists, is clear from the
operations of creatures, which are such that they are directed by a certain reason towards a certain end. Thus, plants attract useful nutrients and avoid harmful ones. The nutrients they attract, they distribute through their parts, from which they draw beneficial juice, they protect themselves with barks, produce seeds, lest the species perish, protect fruits against harmful external causes. In animals, there is an inclination towards the conservation of life, even if it is uncomfortable in itself, towards propagation and care concerning offspring, even at the risk and expense of their own lives. For these to be obtained, some live in democracy, as ants; others in monarchy, as bees: Since, therefore, those which lack reason are governed by reason; necessarily follows and is certainly inferred, there exists some first reason and wisdom, which has instilled this into these creatures, and directs them. For if all this were done by chance without a superior directing, it would not be aimed at by all and certain species.


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Chapter 3 in the Special Metaphysics section

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የጌታ ሰላም ከሁላችሁ ጋር ይሁን

እንደሚታወቀው የተሐድሶ ቀን በዓል ቀርቧል። የእግዚአብሔር ቃል እና የተወደደችው የኢየሱስ አካል በሆነችው ቤተክርስትያን ላይ የሚደርሱትን በደሎች ለመቃወም የምንቆምበት የዓመቱ ጊዜ ነው። ቤተ ክርስቲያን ከተተከለችበት ጊዜ ጀምሮ፣ የቤተ ክርስቲያንን ንጹሕ አስተምህሮዎችና ልምምዶች ለማደፍረስ የሚሞክር አካል ሁልጊዜ ነበር። በመጀመሪያ የአይሁድ በሥራ በኩል መጽደቅ ትምህርት ነበረ፤ በኋላም በዶ/ር ማርቲን ሉተር ዘመን በጳጳሱ በኩል ተካሄዷል።

በአሁኑ ጊዜ ደግሞ ከተለያየ አቅጣጫ ተመሳሳይ ስህተቶችን እናስተውላለን። ከአንዱ ከጎራ ዘመናዊ ፕሮቴስታንቲዝም እና የካሪዝማቲክ እንቅስቃሴዎች መስፋፋት ሲሆነ በሌላው በኩል ደግሞ ብዙ የውሸት ትምህርቶችን ወደ ቅዱሷ ቤተ ክርስቲያን ያፈለሰው ለትውፊት የተጋነነው ክብር እና ቦታ ነው። ሁለቱም ጎራዎች ቅዱስ የሆነውን እና እንደ እግዚአብሔር ቃል የሆነውን የቤተ ክርስቲያንን ንጹሕ አስተምህሮዎችና ልምምዶች የሚበክሉ ስለሆኑ ተሐድሶ የሚያስፈልጋቸው ጎራዎች ናቸው።

ዛሬም ቢሆን "Ad Fontes" ወይም "ወደ ጥንቱ" ማለትም ወደ ቅዱሳት መጽሐፍት እንመለስ ልንል ይገባናል፤ ተሐድሶ ይህ ነውና። ስለዚህም ዛሬም ቢሆን እኛም ሉተር የተናገረውን "Here I Stand" የሚለውን አቋም እንያዝ።

የተሃድሶውን ዜናን ለማሰራጨት በሁሉም ማህበራዊ ሚዲያዎች ይህንን ምስል የፕሮፋይል ፒክቸራችሁ እንድታደርጉት በእግዚአብሔር ፍቅር እጠይቃችኋለው።

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"Some of the problems commonly engaging the attention of philosophical thought appear to be deprived, not only of all importance, but of any meaning as well; a host of problems arise resting solely upon some ambiguity or upon a confusion of points of view, problems that only exist in fact because they are badly expressed, and that normally should not arise at all. In most cases therefore, it would in itself be sufficient to set these problems forth correctly in order to cause them to disappear, were it not that philosophy has an interest in keeping them alive, since it thrives largely upon ambiguities."

~René Guénon

"We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place."

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"The whole tendency of modern life is towards scientific planning and organisation, central control, standardisation, and specialisation. If this tendency was left to work itself out to its extreme conclusion, one might expect to see the state transformed into an immense social machine, all the individual components of which are strictly limited to the performance of a definite and specialised function, where there could be no freedom because the machine could only work smoothly as long as every wheel and cog performed its task with unvarying regularity. Now the nearer modern society comes to the state of total organisation, the more difficult it is to find any place for spiritual freedom and personal responsibility. Education itself becomes an essential part of the machine, for the mind has to be as completely measured and controlled by the techniques of the scientific expert as the task which it is being trained to perform."

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