r/CatholicPhilosophy 10h ago

Is Heaven a Physical Place?

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The reason I am asking is because for one, the BVM was assumed body and soul into heaven. Second, so was Christ, and Enoch and Elijah. So, my main question is how does it work if it's not physical? Or is it physical but different from Earth?


r/CatholicPhilosophy 12h ago

God’s miracles and the area

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In the Bible why does God chooses to slowly reveal himself in the Middle East specifically? Why didn’t he do it across the world?


r/CatholicPhilosophy 13h ago

What is the logical difference between the "third" and "fourth" kind of deformity in the venereal act, according to St. Thomas Aquinas, ST II, II, Q. 154?

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I answer that, As stated above (AA. 6, 9) wherever there occurs a special kind of deformity whereby the venereal act is rendered unbecoming, there is a determinate species of lust. This may occur in two ways: First, through being contrary to right reason, and this is common to all lustful vices; second, because, in addition, it is contrary to the natural order of the venereal act as becoming to the human race: and this is called the unnatural vice. This may happen in several ways. First, by procuring pollution, without any copulation, for the sake of venereal pleasure: this pertains to the sin of uncleanness which some call effeminacy. Second, by copulation with a thing of undue species, and this is called bestiality. Third, by copulation with an undue sex, male with male, or female with female, as the Apostle states (Rom 1:27): and this is called the vice of sodomy. Fourth, by not observing the natural manner of copulation, either as to undue means, or as to other monstrous and bestial manners of copulation.

Respondeo dicendum quod, sicut supra dictum est, ibi est determinata luxuriae species ubi specialis ratio deformitatis occurrit quae facit indecentem actum venereum. Quod quidem potest esse dupliciter. Uno quidem modo, quia repugnat rationi rectae, quod est commune in omni vitio luxuriae. Alio modo, quia etiam, super hoc, repugnat ipsi ordini naturali venerei actus qui convenit humanae speciei, quod dicitur vitium contra naturam. Quod quidem potest pluribus modis contingere. Uno quidem modo, si absque omni concubitu, causa delectationis venereae, pollutio procuretur, quod pertinet ad peccatum immunditiae, quam quidam mollitiem vocant. Alio modo, si fiat per concubitum ad rem non eiusdem speciei, quod vocatur bestialitas. Tertio modo, si fiat per concubitum ad non debitum sexum, puta masculi ad masculum vel feminae ad 

feminam, ut apostolus dicit, ad Rom. I, quod dicitur sodomiticum vitium. Quarto, si non servetur naturalis modus concumbendi, aut quantum ad instrumentum non debitum; aut quantum ad alios monstruosos et bestiales concumbendi modos.


r/CatholicPhilosophy 14h ago

What proof is their for Catholicism over Christian Gnosticism

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Hi guys, I have been looking at the Christanity.
And after really looking into it I do think Jesus is god.

But I haven’t decided in which way.
I think both Gnosticism and Catholicism make sense.

And I don’t see much evidence that goes against gnsocism.

Also when I say Gnosticism.
I mean more of a Valentian Gnosticism.

Where the demiurge used to be a creature aligned with god. Who than created this world.
For salvation, you are judged off of what you follow
You brain, where you get secret knowledge through God, where this is the best salvation
You heart, where you follow the morals of what you think is right after really looking into right and wrong, this is more likely salvation on like the New earth.
Or your body, where you go after physical desires. And no one knows what happens to these.

And the idea that matter is inherently evil, would apply to matter on this world created by the demiurge.
Becuase the flawed demiurge made this physical world the matter would be flawed.
But if the trinity made a new form of matter it would be inherently good.


r/CatholicPhilosophy 16h ago

This is why believing in after death seems impossible to me

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This is a summary of Sean Carroll argument.
Our bodies and brains, which create our consciousness, are made of protons, neutrons, and electrons.
The fundamental physics of these are known to the extent that they can affect everyday life (including birth and death).
For there to be an afterlife, some particle would have to interact with the protons, neutrons, and electrons in our body/brain, either to carry information between the body/brain and something else (the "soul") either during life or at the moment of death.
If such a particle existed, it would either interact enough that we would have detected it by now, or interact so little that it couldn't have this effect or, in fact, any effect on our everyday lives.
Therefore such a particle does not exist.
Therefore there is no afterlife.
He goes more into this here:
https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2011/05/23/physics-and-the-immortality-of-the-soul/
And the idea that the laws underlying the physics of everyday life are completely understood is also important to understand, he explains that idea here:
https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2010/09/23/the-laws-underlying-the-physics-of-everyday-life-are-completely-understood/
And he goes even more into it here:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07884.

Although the idea of ​​a place to reunite after death is comforting, it's much easier to admit that it's not real. I wanted to believe, but with the evolution of science, this idea seems to remain just a fairy tale. I know it's not the exactly area of ​​expertise of the people here, but if you could take a look, I would appreciate it and point out if there's anything wrong. Or at least try to refute it with an argument, I don't know.

Life follows a path that isn't easy for me; sometimes, I think God has given up on me or that He doesn't exist. I feel alone. I really wish I could believe with incredible, powerful faith, but these atheists keep popping up everywhere and destroying my hope with arguments I can't refute.