(March 15, 2013 at 11:08 am)ronedee Wrote: You can call the Holy Spirit an intuitive mind, or even feelings if you like! But the Holy Spirit represents "ABSOLUTE TRUTH"!
What else can be called that? What do we know as absolute truth? Things we see? Things others tell us? Math? Science? People?
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If there is no absolute truth in what we see or know, where are we to turn?
I'm not much concerned with absolute truth. Just plain old for-sure truth is hard enough to come by. Truth has to do with correspondence between claims about things and how those things actually stand. "The truth" only arises as a concept in the context of language. There is no "truth" apart from language. Without language, what is is and that's it. With language what I say is so has to actually be as stated or else it isn't the truth.
Language is pretty new so truth is also pretty new. We've evolved to handle language and in the process, the means for creating the concept of truth. However we did not evolve to pursue the truth. We evolved to pursue dinner. Language helped us get dinner; the concept of "the truth", not so much.
So I'm not really sure what you mean by "absolute truth". I suspect you really mean something like the "truth about the absolute", rather than the highest degree of truth. What is the absolute? Is anything real less real than any other real thing? Even if your god were real, how would its reality be any more or less real than any one of us?
