(March 20, 2015 at 2:34 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: I'm afraid that kind of quasi-mystic vaguely-Aquinas-sounding word salad of "isness" and "duality" doesn't make a lick of sense to me, especially when you toss in the crap about Satan. Unless you're actively trying to undermine the law of non-contradiction, I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to say or what point you're trying to make.
Obviously labels don't describe every facet of every possible characteristic of a person, nobody is claiming that they do. But labels are shortcuts that help us address certain ideas and people and opinions without having to start from scratch at the beginning of every sentence of every conversation.
And again, I'm baffled by your first two sentences. What other possible tool is there for investigating anything, outside of "thinking"?
Bafflement is good! Hold onto it and taste it for a while.
"Everything has a crack in it, that's how the light gets in." If you could ask Newton about his "law" of gravity he would agree. The same goes for dogma, or belief systems of any sort that are based on words and ideas.
Even Atheists have dogmas. I have seen them listed in this forum.
They see the cracks in Christian dogma but don't see it in their own. We are all in the same boat!
Thinking never gets us where we want to be. It only takes us a little further along the journey and we complain like two-year-olds in the backseat saying, "Are we there yet?" And someone has to burst their bubble and say, "No, not yet...now eat your Dairy Queen."
Jesus still calls Peter to come out of the boat, where there is some notion of safety, and do the impossible thing of walking on the water. Get out of the boat of thinking...you won't sink!
