Baxter Williams
@BaxterWilliams_
I discuss Christianity online. Still catching up on philosophy. Interested in mind / epistemology. Ex-Christian. God-fearer. Pandeism promoter.
It's a fun verse but imagine how insufferable it would be if someone actually responded like this every time you tried to describe your plans for the year. Calling you evil for not mentioning "if the Lord wishes" after every sentence.
"What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes."
"What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes."
Actually, perhaps the most valuable things about philosophy is convincing people who *think* they know the answers that they don't know. It stops people from doing harm with false certainty. Trains humility.
One time, a physicist I know dismissed the entire field of philosophy with one simple declaration, and I still love him for it. “If we can’t know, it doesn’t matter.”
This post made me re-look at the remarriage passages (not the divorce passages nearby), and it does look generally like *only* Matt 19:9 could be interpreted as permitting remarriage conditionally. I can see now why Aquinas thought Matt 19:9 probably wasn't meant that way..
Even after adultery, “it is unlawful both to the wife and to the husband to contract a second marriage” (St. Thomas Aquinas).