(September 24, 2016 at 2:13 am)Rhythm Wrote: It doesn't -matter- whether or not "there was a real guy" if the book isn't talking about him, eh? Inevitably, when this sort of position gets espoused...one has to ask which real guy we have in mind..if any of them are "the real guy" to begin with. I'm sure that carriers analogy could be improved...but I don't think that your notion of the many real hero saviors (or subsequent fraud, of all things) actually illustrates it.A hundred different people could have inconsistent impressions of you. Some of their beliefs about you may not by any means resemble you as you actually are. That doesn't mean that there is absolutely nothing in their false impressions of you that contains some truth of you as you indeed are, or that the false impression is based on some other being who is not ultimately derived, however distorted the caricature may be, from the real you.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
