RE: MERGED: The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ (Part 1) & (Part 2)
December 20, 2014 at 5:07 pm
(December 20, 2014 at 4:44 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: Nobody understand the Trinity. More honest Christian scholars will admit it's a puzzle that lies beyond human capabilities to understand.I think the current version exists because any explanations that allowed for a critical examination didn't hold up very well. So the version that cannot be understood works best. Which is a searing indictment of the whole mess.
I think that the "god as a title" thing can work if we treat it thusly: there can be many senators, but they are part of only one senate. Thus there are many, and there is one. I don't think that will be acceptable simply because it creates a structure that can be understood and therefore scrutinized. So I figure we'll continue to hear about the version that is beyond our understanding.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
