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Absolute truth and human understanding
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Absolute truth and human understanding
I think most of us humans agree that we are not all-knowing beings. We are not gods ourselves. Still as it comes to religion, absolute statements fill the room, the blogosphere, books, debate. How can this be? How can it be that Daystar writes "The Word of God, though, is always right", as an absolute truth. Has he somehow acquired a state of all-knowingness, or is this an example of how the wish is father to the thought.
"I'm like a rabbit suddenly trapped, in the blinding headlights of vacuous crap" - Tim Minchin in "Storm"
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0
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Absolute truth and human understanding - by Purple Rabbit - December 12, 2008 at 3:07 pm
RE: Absolute truth and human understanding - by Tiberius - December 12, 2008 at 3:37 pm
RE: Absolute truth and human understanding - by Purple Rabbit - December 12, 2008 at 3:43 pm
RE: Absolute truth and human understanding - by Tiberius - December 12, 2008 at 4:11 pm
RE: Absolute truth and human understanding - by Purple Rabbit - December 12, 2008 at 4:38 pm
RE: Absolute truth and human understanding - by Edwardo Piet - December 18, 2008 at 9:05 pm
RE: Absolute truth and human understanding - by Eilonnwy - December 18, 2008 at 11:03 pm
RE: Absolute truth and human understanding - by Edwardo Piet - December 18, 2008 at 11:22 pm
RE: Absolute truth and human understanding - by Kyuuketsuki - December 19, 2008 at 4:41 am
RE: Absolute truth and human understanding - by CoxRox - December 19, 2008 at 5:18 am
RE: Absolute truth and human understanding - by Kyuuketsuki - December 19, 2008 at 8:21 am
RE: Absolute truth and human understanding - by Edwardo Piet - December 19, 2008 at 11:18 pm
RE: Absolute truth and human understanding - by Purple Rabbit - December 20, 2008 at 12:05 pm
RE: Absolute truth and human understanding - by CoxRox - December 19, 2008 at 11:56 am
RE: Absolute truth and human understanding - by Tiberius - December 19, 2008 at 11:03 pm
RE: Absolute truth and human understanding - by Edwardo Piet - December 20, 2008 at 9:07 pm
RE: Absolute truth and human understanding - by Purple Rabbit - December 21, 2008 at 8:35 am
RE: Absolute truth and human understanding - by Edwardo Piet - December 21, 2008 at 9:00 am
RE: Absolute truth and human understanding - by Purple Rabbit - December 21, 2008 at 9:37 am
RE: Absolute truth and human understanding - by Edwardo Piet - December 21, 2008 at 9:50 am

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