RE: If I met Him...
January 5, 2021 at 6:32 pm
(This post was last modified: January 5, 2021 at 6:33 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(January 3, 2021 at 6:54 pm)Angrboda Wrote: I've concluded in the past year that there can be no positive evidence of God, not even hypothetically. So any belief would have to be rooted in unreason. But I also believe that unreason is at the root of the human experience. Life begins with irrationality, and reason is an after-thought at best. So, I guess it would depend upon what I was presented with. I suspect that forming an adequate judgment of any being that I might accept as God is beyond my paygrade. Which presents additional problems. As many of the great theologians have argued, any knowledge we have of God is mere shadow, analogy, an assemblage of what he is not in a brain not equipped to wrap itself around even the idea of God. So I could probably go either way. Any belief, though, would probably be strongly limited, and possibly short-lived.
Jor/Angrboda, who or what do you suggest people could trust to guide them between the apparently insurmountable cliffs of paradox on one side and the devouring abyss of absurdity on the other? Given the human condition you rightly describe, I see no shame in cautiously calling on all sense-making tools with humble recongnition that each is, to greater or lesser degree, flawed.
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