(August 28, 2018 at 10:08 am)vulcanlogician Wrote:(August 28, 2018 at 9:52 am)Kit Wrote: Something that doesn't resemble word salad. Sorry, but even we atheists are not free from it's green grasp.
What I want is an example: concrete means providing a proper example.
I think what Rob was getting at is that we are limited in our perceptive abilities. For instance, if there lay a garden outside your window, you could simply look outside and know what was there. But what if you didn't have a window? What if you could only peer through a tiny hole in the wall and observe a patch of green? Could you ever figure out that a garden was on the other side of the wall? Maybe it's a forest... maybe something else... after all, a patch of green doesn't tell you much.
That adequately describes our predicament as knowledge-seeking beings. With time and effort, we can perhaps learn that there is an assortment of different plants on the other side of a wall. But so much else is hidden.
Our capacity to know is finite. Can we ever discover the ultimate nature of the universe/reality? Probably not. We may never come to know a great many things. In some cases, such knowledge may simply be impossible.
Not if you buy a bottle of my patented Christ Oil. Just rub it on anyone you like when you start feeling your atonement power waning. Then toss the victim newly anointed son of God into a volcano or string him up. Soon you'll feel the certainty in the answers to all those questions returning most vividly.
