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To: RightWhale; betty boop; .30Carbine
Fine, but what else is there?

The most certain - and therefore, highest priority - type of knowledge for me is divine revelation.

301 posted on 06/10/2007 11:05:28 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Alamo-Girl

There is only revelation. Nothing else. That much falls out of claustral philosophy so far. Give it certainty and highest priority, but it comes with that whether we decide so or not.


303 posted on 06/10/2007 11:09:36 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Treaty)
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To: Alamo-Girl
The most certain - and therefore, highest priority - type of knowledge for me is divine revelation.

If that is the case, you should never attempt, nor even offer opinions, in the field of science. You lack the qualifications.

304 posted on 06/10/2007 11:13:08 AM PDT by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: Alamo-Girl
The most certain - and therefore, highest priority - type of knowledge for me is divine revelation.

Both true and false at the same time. Not in a Hegelian sense; but the problem for all of those except the 'insightee' (to coin a phrase) is how to know *when* it was truly divine revelation; when a mistake; when diabolical.

And then to borrow from RightWhale's point about needing to know both languages *and* the source material, all too often divine revelation seems to be a distillation of the infinite wisdom of God, into the vessel of a single human spirit and mind...lots of room for error, especially for the students of the one who had the insight, and for later generations. There'd be some analogy to the apparent contradiction in experience between someone falling into a black hole and what is seen by someone outside the hole observing them...

...and finally, you have the problem (by analogy to parents and children) you have the possibility of the following: Dad: David, please ask your sister to come downstairs.

David [Running up the steps excitedly]: Mary, Dad says get down here RIGHT NOW! Boy, are YOU in trouble!!!

(And all the time Dad had just wanted to surprise Mary with a candy bar from the store...]

There are great analogies to human religious experience there...

Cheers!

355 posted on 06/10/2007 4:07:41 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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