(December 12, 2008 at 3:07 pm)Purple Rabbit Wrote: 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.
Just digressing slightly from the thread, Daystar makes a similar statement on another forum:
'The Bible isn't a science book but when it touches on subjects related to science it is correct.'
It is his inability to realise that if you are to make such a statement without backing it up with evidence, or proof, you will not be taken seriously.
Why does 'absolute' matter? In philosophical/relgious debates it appears, but in real life it doesn't seem to be that important. At the end of the day, we all decide what we 100% believe e.g I 100% believe I exist, I do not doubt this in any way, so to me my existence is absolute. It may not be to you, but it's how I perceive it that matters.
Am I talking gobaldy gook?
"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility"
Albert Einstein
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