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Domain Query: Smart question day

by | Jun 15, 2022 | Domain Query | 2 comments

LRFotS Randale6 and I had a long conversation via email on a number of topics, stemming from his idea that someone like me should start up a successor site to the old Return of Kings platform. He mentioned that I had said something along these lines in the past, which I do vaguely recall doing at some point, I just can’t remember exactly when or where. From there, he asked why Roosh had become such a fanatic and a hardliner, and lost his sense of humour. I pointed out that this is a direct consequence of Roosh’s personality, which shows a strong tendency to go to extremes too easily, and that we shouldn’t be too judgemental about him, because even someone like me would be considered “fundamentalist” by most normies.

Randale6 stated that he has a hard time believing in any religion or ideology precisely because of the hardliners, as he perceives Roosh to be. But it seemed to me that, given his lack of overt hostility to Christianity and Christ, he had a number of questions on the subjects of religion, faith, and Christianity, and I invited him to ask me anything he might like on these subjects.

Here is the list of questions that our friend wants answered (slightly edited for spelling and capitalisations, but otherwise exactly as sent to me):

  1. How does one reconcile Man’s free will with God’s omniscience?
  2. What is your thinking on the Masons/Deists and their various offshoots (most prominent being the Mormons)?
  3. Is Heaven any better than Hell? (To be honest with you, adoring God for all eternity kind of sounds like a mental Hell to me…)
  4. Why is the Bible so scant on descriptions of Heaven? (Islam by contrast tells you explicitly what you’re getting, sounds like one of the best afterlives I’ve ever heard of…at least if we go by the 72 houri version)
  5. What is the fate of those souls Christian missionaries never reached? (e.g the Native Americans pre-Columbus, the Chinese pre-Marco Polo would be another example)
  6. Why does Christianity cuck so readily? (Particularly when compared to its heretical child known as Islam, which for all its faults seems to understand that some behaviors should just not be tolerated.)
  7. Must a Christian truly forgive all sins against him or can he put to the sword those who have gravely wronged him, his family and his people? (e.g were the actions of someone like say Vlad the Impaler justified given the threats and trespasses of the Ottomans against him and his kingdom)

This is a very comprehensive and important set of questions, and I am very pleased to have an opportunity to answer them. I did my best to do so in a manner that is both informative and precise, but inevitably, since I’m only human, I’m sure I got a few things wrong. As such, I welcome my wiser and more informed Christian brothers to provide their comments and views on what I have said, in the chat.

Here’s the episode:

In addition, friend and LRFotS JohnC911 had a very interesting follow-up to Episode 100 of the main Didactic Mind podcast on a related but separate topic:

Didactic I do have a question and it relates to the immigration into the west from countries like India and the Middle East.
When major problems of the west start to happen and living in the west becomes unbearable for many of the non Europeans, how will the countries that receive them be affected?

I am thinking for example such as Arabs that were brought up in the west returning to countries such as Saudi Arabia, Indians returning to India from the west.

Would the western liberal influence infected the countries or the opposite? Would there be religious and ideological problems cause?

I answer this question by breaking it up into two parts with two subsections each. Essentially, I take the view that the wealthy and internationally mobile elite immigrants will return to their old countries, and will bring with them some of the GloboHomoPaedo disease. Those not capable of moving, will stay in the West, and become ever more radicalised and angry and difficult. There will be inevitable reactions and pushbacks against both types. I go into the details at some length in this podcast.

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2 Comments

  1. Robert W

    Didact & Randale6, thank you for developing a highly engaging and thoughtful Domain Query. I listened straight through yesterday on a drive. I have some comments that I hope will be useful. I am not going to fully answer any of the questions individually but add appendix items where I have something to add.

    How does one reconcile Man’s free will with God’s omniscience?
    Our host is already familiar with Dr. Heiser, I find his summary answer useful because it is biblical and brings clarity:

    https://drmsh.com/predestination-and-free-will-a-summary-of-the-naked-bibles-position/
    Very simply, God foreknew things that never happened. This tells us that foreknowing things does not necessitate their predestination. Here’s the idea in a syllogism:
    God foreknows ALL events
    God foreknows events that never happen
    Therefore, the fact that God foreknows an event doesn’t require that it will come to pass.
    Therefore, there is no cause and effect relationship between foreknowledge and predestination.

    This is much like the game designer analogy Didact used. A designer knows all the permutations of actions the NPC is capable of but does not always dictate the reaction of the NPC. On some occasions, the NPC will have a required course of action, but it is biblically one of their choosing. A classic example is the Pharaoh of Egypt rejecting Moses’ request for releasing the slaves, and his heart hardens continually against Yahweh as he becomes more intransigent under the plagues. At some point he’s hardened his heart, then the Lord hardens his heart and will not release him from his line of morality. Did Pharaoh want to change? “Don’t Know” says the Drinker, but unlikely. He’s chosen evil and rebellion for so long that God will use him as an example of what rebellion leads to, destruction and death for God’s enemies and new life for his children. (Exodus chapters 1-11 for this, it’s a handful of pages of very readable story)

    What is your thinking on the Masons/Deists and their various offshoots (most prominent being the Mormons)?
    The Special Revelation club is designed to bring more power to men. It’s marked by new additions to the scripture: Either by adding books to the bible (e.g. gospel of Thomas/book of Enoch), making new books on par with the bible to append the bible (Book of Mormon, Quran), altering the bible (Jehovah’s Witness New World Translation is a fraud) or rejecting parts of the bible (Thomas Jefferson cutting out the miracles of Christ as a Diest). When you stray from God to Man you lose light and accumulate darkness.
    Is Heaven any better than Hell? (To be honest with you, adoring God for all eternity kind of sounds like a mental Hell to me…)
    I had a girlfriend in my youth who was terrified of death. She couldn’t deal with spiders AT ALL because they thrived on death. Any conversation about what comes after death was not welcome. She was a Christian and she grew up with Christians. I was ill-equipped to be useful and didn’t do much research on it because I had other things to do. Also, the churches I grew up in did a terrible job filling in the vision of what comes next (heaven). Ultimately she couldn’t even go to funerals for people, even Christians, because she couldn’t grasp the Christian hope for the future.

    Twelve years later I read a book by Randy Alcorn, Heaven. The bible is rife with allusions and poetic descriptions of Heaven across the entire book. It’s an eastern work written for an eastern mind to dwell and meditate on. Alcorn takes that and makes it systemic and western for my mind. It vastly expanded my view of what comes next and showed the mystery of the next is far deeper and richer than we assume. The harps on the clouds praising God all day for eternity are a parody of reality. That is equivalent to Family Guy doing Lord of the Rings in 4 episodes and spending an entire episode with Tom Bombadil. It just distorts and destroys the perspective of what comes next, which is a genuine physical reality with perfect bodies and all of creation to nurture and create in. Those stars were made for man to travel to, and we’ll have an everlasting lifespan to do it with. If you are familiar with the extreme speculative fiction of John C Wright, mankind can grow to those capabilities.
    Alcorn gives a presentation: https://youtu.be/X3yH9Ou9uLU
    Book: https://www.amazon.com/Heaven-Randy-Alcorn/dp/0842379428/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

    The future Heaven upon Earth Jesus brings together is the most magnificent possible future. Anything else, by comparison, is a problem, so understanding Hell is not necessary. Didact crushed it with his description of the gnawing isolation and despair of eternity in the Domain query. One line I would like to pull on more is the idea that everyone in Hell has chosen to be there. Everyone who escapes Heaven does so by rebellion against the creator.
    CS Lewis wrote a short novel, The Great Divorce. It is a story of Heaven and Hell, of Saints and the Damned. It is painful to feel the noble saints trying to pry the pride of the sinful from their hands, to release their burden of bitterness and let forgiveness change them. It’s fictional so he uses the device of purgatory to explore characters and thoughts. His chief strength in the story is showing the full beauty of virtue blossoming in the lives of those living with Jesus, as their sinful natures have been removed and they can fully express the virtue now. Then, by comparison, the hideous distortion of sin, taking a virtue and stretching it all out of order through overemphasis and then assigning salvation and value to this distortion, rather than the true creator. An example is how a woman focusing on a mother’s love is the purest of all loves’ destroys her children and her family through Oepius complexes. She can’t let this go and damns herself to hell by running away from the true beauty of real love because it terrifies her.
    Book: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Divorce-C-S-Lewis/dp/0060652950/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1655387766&sr=1-1

    What is the fate of those souls Christian missionaries never reached? (e.g the Native Americans pre-Columbus, the Chinese pre-Marco Polo would be another example)
    Didact brushed on the idea of systemic child sacrifice across the whole pagan world. This is true, and it wasn’t without power. The bible has tremendous power tied up in the sacrifice of children, of mankind bleeding dry the future for power in the present. Beyond the child sacrifice that is Jesus, there’s a pagan example that overpowers a prophecy of Elisha in 2 Kings 3, v 27 in particular.
    He’s not a Christian by any means, but Graham Hancock has done very good work in The Fingerprints of the Gods and The Magicians of the Gods showing the raging similarities of stone megalithic structures globally, and a set of common myths that they all share. Human sacrifice looks to be common in many of these archaeological locations.

    On the other hand, there are clear indications of man knowing the truth without the scriptures. Job in the bible is anomalous for not indicating Abrahamic faith yet still being marked as righteous. Socrates knew there was one true God and went to his grave for it. There was a Great Father mythos in native American tribes long before missionary efforts kicked off.

    The unfailingly logical GK Chesterton has a good heuristic in his book The Everlasting Man. Humans tried the insane kind of paganism and found it unfulfilling across all cultures and migrated to a sane kind of paganism with the Hellenistic world. When they found this unfulfilling, it was the perfect time for the God-Man Jesus to step into history and blow the whole thing up, and reshape all of the world. It’s a good read with consistently amusing turns of phrase: https://www.amazon.com/The-Everlasting-Man-audiobook/dp/B0170GLI9S/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1655389950&sr=1-2-spons

    Why does Christianity cuck so readily? (Particularly when compared to its heretical child known as Islam, which for all its faults seems to understand that some behaviors should just not be tolerated.)
    This is just my thinking and isn’t straight biblical. But the origins of the faith come from people making choices in the Garden, to honor God with Humility or Honor Man with pride. The pattern is always that man chooses pride. The church is made of people and even if you cut down the pride choices by 80% you still have a lot of room for the man to make choices to honor himself. The cucking is to appeal to the gods of this world, to be in alignment with the spirit of the age, man wants approbation. Islam cucks plenty it just looks different based on what culture they are in and how much wealth is on the table. You see porn and prostitution and homosexuality and the defilement of marriage all across the Islamic world, it’s just different flavors compared to the west.

    Didact, two thoughts on biblical references made within the Domain Query:
    Abraham and Issac and the Binding: I’m having my mind reshaped this week by an excellent book on the subject.
    Abraham argued with God about Sodom and the lives within, but he didn’t argue with God about Issac and the life of his Son. Why?
    Moses argued with God about Israel and saved the whole nation on Mt Sinai. He appealed to God on the basis of the character of God and his own glory. God changed his actions and Moses became the mediator for Israel.
    Jesus is my advocate and his sacrifice of blood is the final argument with God to mediate on my behalf. He is the ultimate appeal to the character of God, and Jesus is the greater Moses.
    What if Abraham was being tested in two ways? The classic understanding was did he have faith in God to carry on the covenant, with or without Issac? He had faith God could resurrect Issac if needed. But what if the test was ‘Abraham, do you truly know me? If you do, you will challenge this direction and take your place as the mediator AND progenitor of this covenant.”
    It is a very compelling case and it is re-working my perspective of Christian Prayer in my life.
    https://www.amazon.com/Abrahams-Silence-Binding-Isaac-Suffering/dp/0801098017/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1655388672&sr=1-1

    Jonah flees from Nivevah:
    He flees to Tarshish not out of fear for his own skin. Jonah flees because he fears the Assyrians will listen and repent and God won’t smite them. Contrast with Jeremiah whom God told three times to stop praying on behalf of Jerusalem, it is cut out for destruction. Two very different prophets and it’s delightful both are in the same bible.

    Godspeed gentlemen, thank you for the conversation.

    Reply
    • Didact

      That is an outstanding comment, thank you for taking the time to write all of that out. I very much appreciate the colour and ideas that you have added to the points that I tried to make in my main podcast.

      The Special Revelation club is designed to bring more power to men. It’s marked by new additions to the scripture: Either by adding books to the bible (e.g. gospel of Thomas/book of Enoch), making new books on par with the bible to append the bible (Book of Mormon, Quran), altering the bible (Jehovah’s Witness New World Translation is a fraud) or rejecting parts of the bible (Thomas Jefferson cutting out the miracles of Christ as a Diest). When you stray from God to Man you lose light and accumulate darkness.

      I agree, except that, with respect to the Book of Enoch, I think that helps us to understand certain aspects of the Bible – particularly with respect to the Nephilim and their overall role in the current state of the world. Dr. Heiser’s take on them is both illuminating and deeply disturbing. As you probably know, he essentially argues that daemons are the disembodied souls of Nephilim following the destruction of their physical bodies during the Flood.

      I am not sure what to make of the rest of Enoch, as it is frankly quite dense and its imagery is downright weird at times. But it does add useful colour and context to Genesis 1-6.

      What if Abraham was being tested in two ways? The classic understanding was did he have faith in God to carry on the covenant, with or without Issac? He had faith God could resurrect Issac if needed. But what if the test was ‘Abraham, do you truly know me? If you do, you will challenge this direction and take your place as the mediator AND progenitor of this covenant.”

      It’s a distinct possibility. Again, Dr. Heiser makes note of this issue in The Unseen Realm. As he notes, God gave the Law to men as something that would demonstrate their willingness to act out of faith in Him. He DID NOT give the Law to men as some blind set of rote rituals. So those who perform the Law do so out of a desire to do the work of God, from their faith in Him, because they want to know Him. The same can, logically, apply to Abraham. The sacrifice of Isaac may well have been about checking whether Abraham truly wanted to know God, and therefore obey His commands.

      That clear understanding of the Law is how we connect the Old Testament with the New. It is a grave error to believe that the New Testament is a rejection of the Law of the Old Testament. It is not. The New Testament COMPLETES the Old Testament, but frees us from the restrictions imposed by the Law, of acting in certain ways, by requiring of us to have faith in the Triune Godhead instead.

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