The Greatest Principle of Comparative Studies of Religions

[Eudaimonist]

Originally Posted by lunamoth

I like the sailboat analogy too. We can either set our sails, or we can drift (or founder). And some days the waves knock us off course, but if we have the skills and determination we can back back on course, or find a new one.

Well put. This is why I love this particular metaphor as an introduction to the topic. It is so easy to play with.

I like it especially because it allows for many different 'schools' of wisdom to be effective for skillful sailing.

Yes, this is so. I don't have the view that there is One True School that holds The Key to flourishing. It's an open field for everyone to investigate and make progress with.


eudaimonia,

Mark

[Eudaimonist]

Originally Posted by inhumility

The effect of the true and perfect Divine law upon man’s heart in this life is that it lifts him from a savage Condition and converts him into a human being, and thereafter invests him with high morals, and finally makes him godly.

I can certainly relate to this. I think that there are philosophical principles that, when used as a guide in one's life, bring one into one's birthright of great human potentials.


eudaimonia,

Mark

[Curios Mike]

PLease forgive me I have very lil time so i'm gonna be very brief.

1) The Physical, Moral, and Spiritual States of Man.
2) What is the State of Man After Death?
3) The Object of Man's Life and the Means of its Attainment.
4) The Operation of the Practical Ordinances of the Law in This Life and the Next.
5) Sources of Divine Knowledge.

1) Depends on you! Your choice. Joshua 24:15 And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”

2) Depends on your answer to the 1st Question. John 14: 1 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. 2 In My Father’s house are many mansions;[a] if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.[b] 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. 4 And where I go you know, and the way you know.”
5 Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?”
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

3) Yet this one also depends on the 1st+2nd. Mark 12: 28One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, "Of all the commandments, which is the most important?" 29"The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.[b] 30Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.'[c] 31The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'[d]There is no commandment greater than these."

4) 3 and 4 fullfill each other Or am I misunderstanding your question?

5) Acts 4: 7 And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, have ye done this?8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, 9 If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole; 10 Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. 11 This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. 12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. See also answer to number 2.