God is above conventional reason

[Angrboda]

Yeah, well, he would pretty much have to be. There's no other conceivable way to make sense of his behavior.


Here's the thing, friend. If God is inscrutable to us, that means he's inscrutable to you, too. That means absolutely none of your shit holds any water. The bible (maybe that's God's idea of a funny story, or a Zen koan? You don't know, because you can't know the mind of God, you can't even make sense of him), Jesus Christ (perhaps God just came down to put his paw prints on Mary Magdalene's hot bawdy, and this was the way he thought of accomplishing that goal; it worked for Zeus, why not for Yahweh?), and the traditions of the Holy Roman Catholic church (do they have reasoning above that of other men? No, they do not). You've just exercised the nuclear option, babe, and blown up your own God in the process.


Interestingly enough, many traditions of Buddhism have a similar idea, stemming from the writings of the Madhyamakan sage, Nagarjuna. It's called the two truths doctrine. According to the doctrine, there is ordinary, conventional truth, the kind you can acquire through conversation and study, and 'absolute truth', for which you must first drink the kool-aid before you can get any (and I mean a lot of kool-aid, if Buddhists I've talked to are any indication). So who is to say that you are right, and the Buddhists are wrong? By your own admission, even if God exists, you likely understand as much about him as an ant understands my shoe. Maybe the Buddhists are right, and your Catholicism and biblical truth and traditions are all just ordinary, conventional, fallible human wisdom; if you want a true glimpse of reality, according to them, you have to follow the path of the Buddha's teaching (Dharma). You don't know. You can't know (because you stipulated to this already), because you are not God.


Seeing that we're outside the intro thread, I guess I can make my little joke now. "TheLameMayWalk" eh? I guess the lame can post to the forum, too.