Marbaniang, Domenic

Basically, there are two kinds of government or rules: the rule of people and the rule of law The rule of people is manifest in democracy (mobocracy) where majority rule or in dictatorship where the whim of a single man pilots the state. Obviously, the rule of law is preferred above the rule of the mob. However, the appropriateness of the laws is an important question to tackle. As far as best governance is concerned, the best government is considered to be that which has the least control. In other words, if you have to monitor every act of your subjects you are not a good administrator. For the goal of administration in a healthy setting is freedom, justice, fraternity, and equality. This also means that the laws of the state do not specifically interfere with every minute detail of the subject’s life so as to keep him in constant terror, insecurity, and uncertainty. As far as the nature of the laws is concerned, there are two opinions: one group argues that the best laws are those t...

If God foreknew that man was going to fall in sin , then why did He create the world? Answer # 1: The alternative positions to Christianity must be considered, first of all. Atheism. According to it God doesn’t exist; therefore, the problem of ‘why’ He created the world also doesn’t exist. However, the atheist must admit that ultimately ‘why’ the universe exists also is a meaningless question. Thus, lacking any eternal and absolute ground of existence, morality and justice are illusory concepts. In fact, the above question presupposes morality; for the question implies that God, by creating the world despite foreknowing its misery, appears to be evil rather than good. However, if an absolute such as morality doesn’t exist, then it would be meaningless to either convict or justify God. Thus, the question itself would be meaningless. In that sense, the atheist would have to rid himself absolutely of any moral obligation at all. Pantheism . According to it all is God and God is all;...

The doctrine of creation is the Biblical teaching of the origin, nature, purpose, and destiny of creation. There has been much concern over this doctrine and the defence of it in the past two centuries since the publication of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859) . Evolutionism has become one of the most threatening enemies of the doctrine of creation. By its predominance over the secular education system it seems to have eclipsed all other religious and philosophical theories of origins. While evolutionism has got a stronghold in biology, physicists such as Stephen Hawkings in A Brief History of Time (1988) , have gained a great audience for their theories of origins that leave no room for God. The implications have been tremendously great. The concept of the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence has been explored in both science and fiction. The scientific interest in this field has given rise to idea of SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence)...

Mat 5:3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Introduction Story of Buddhist monk and arrogant student. The relation of heaven to the heart. David's confession Ps. 51 Various Interpretations: Economically poor, realization of one's inability Gospel preached to the poor. Lk 4. 18, Mt. 11. 5 Difficult for rich to enter heaven. Mt. 19. 23; Lk. 18. 24 Barnes: Riches produce care, anxiety, and dangers, and not the least is the danger of losing heaven by them. Clarke: Poor in spirit - One who is deeply sensible of his spiritual poverty and wretchedness. Πτωχος, a poor man, comes from πτωσσω, to tremble, or shrink with fear. Being destitute of the true riches, he is tremblingly alive to the necessities of his soul, shrinking with fear lest he should perish without the salvation of God. Such Christ pronounces happy, because there is but a step between them and that kingdom which is here promised. Lk. 6. 20. Blessed are you, speaking to those following Ch...

Space is the negation of substance, of reality, of being; thus, space is nothing, unreality, non-being. Can anyone see nothing or imagine nothing? Yes, for space is nothing. To see nothing means to see no thing. Consequently, we do not see things in space; we see things alone and their negation, viz., space. Things do not occupy space. For then, what does space occupy ? Things negate space, i.e. nothing. Take a plastic bottle of 1 ltr. How much water can it contain? 1 ltr. Squeeze it, can it contain 1 ltr of water? No, why? Because the bottle being squeezed increasingly negates space allowing less negatability for another (meaning that negatibility for it increases at the same time). For perfect density = perfect negation of space; less density = less negation of space. That which is negated cannot be again negated without the destruction of that which negates it. Zero = infinite; therefore, space = infinite; it can be infinitely negated by things without quantitative or qualitative...

© May 22, 2006 Download Plato's Parmenides from Gutenberg Several attempts at understanding the meaning of Plato’s Parmenides were made but not very successfully. Though some of the best minds like Cornford, Russell, Ryle, and Owen have struggled with it, the interpretations are not always acceptible without some hesitation. [1] Edward F. Little gives the following conclusion of it with reference to Plato’s own theory of Forms and distributing Parmenides’ arguments under eight hypotheses: [2] One with “O” capital refers to the form “O” and with “o” in small refers to its copies. Likewise “O” and “o” in “Others” and “others” respectively. The intent seems to be to teach Socrates how to reason efficiently in order to find the truth. The method is by deduction of consequences related to both the posited existence and also non-existence of a thing. (1) If there is a One, it does not exist. (2) If there is a one, it is many. (3) If there is a one, the others are one(s). (4) If there ...

UNFAILING STRENGTH Lk. 22. 28 – 34 Itarsi, 31 March 2006 Domenic Marbaniang Introduction             Prior to Gethsemane Final warnings, promises, and commandments to disciples HUMAN FRAILTY: THE SHIFT OF FAITH To err is human: to forgive divine. Job 4. 3-5; Ps. 6.2; Mt. 26. 41 2 Chr. 6:36;   Prov. 20.9; Eccl. 7:20; Jas. 3:2 a. Many religions try to locate the source of power within man; thus, establishing human control over things. Potentiality can become actuality. Yoga, TM, Mantra-tantra. Especially in polytheism, where power is bifurcated, the locus of power is dispersed, anyone can attain supreme power; though it is mythologically not permitted. Much mythology recognizes both evil and good as produced by the One. Sattva, Rajas, Tamas b. Scientific development has surely taken care of many human frailties: medical, physical, etc. Some fatal mistakes could be avoided. But the inner being is still left unconquered. c. ...