(August 29, 2015 at 6:33 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:(August 29, 2015 at 6:11 pm)Nestor Wrote: ^Exactly, Pyrrho.
I had to do a double take when Randy suggested that, according to Catholic doctrine, God was simply speaking in idioms - when people actually believed the literal truth of its content, and - at least to some extent - couldn't have been expected to know otherwise.
Could you expand on this, Nestor?
How is the idea that the term "heart", a metaphor or idiom for that innermost place within man, problematic?
What are we really saying when we say that an athlete has "heart" or that we know something to be true in our "heart of hearts".
You can trust your gut because your gut actually has brain cells in it. But your heart, on the other hand, is simply a bunch of hollow muscles deigned to pump blood throughout your body. It completely lacks brain cells and therefore it can't think.
Just think about all of the people who have had heart transplants. According to your line of reasoning they would be thinking thoughts that came from the donor.
