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To: betty boop; LeGrande
"... it seems..."

So, do you admit what you hold as true could be wrong, too?

2,647 posted on 06/10/2011 2:18:50 PM PDT by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: James C. Bennett; LeGrande; Alamo-Girl; xzins; Godzilla; Matchett-PI; metmom; kosta50; caww; ...
So, do you admit what you hold as true could be wrong, too?

And you are asking because I used the word "seems?" In your reasoning, "seems" is not equal to "certainty." Therefore, I'm on shaky ground. :^)

But how can I, an image of God, tell you "with certainty" what God knows and thinks? For me to do that would be to commit what the philosophers call a major category error.

What I know of God comes through vision of two types: (1) eye sight (not of God directly of course, but of the things He has made) and (2) inner sight. It's difficult to explain this, but William Blake captured this idea exceptionally well when he said, "We are led to believe a lie when we see with, and not through the eye." Human cognition depends on both kinds of vision in order to arrive at Truth.

As Saint Paul testified, it is both the visible and the invisible things of God which unfailingly testify of Him, so we have "no excuse"....

But that doesn't mean that we know, or can know, what God knows — with total certainty. To make statements regarding "certainty" respecting God is to reduce God down to the size of our cognitive apparatus. When that happens, we're not talking about God anymore.

Capice?

2,658 posted on 06/10/2011 3:02:33 PM PDT by betty boop (We are led to believe a lie when we see with, and not through, the eye. — William Blake)
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