[lockeliberty]

And FWIW, I don't hold much truck with "doctrinal thinking" of any description. Such thinking "filters" reality in such a way as to cut it down to our own size, so to speak. Filters are designed to omit parts of reality. That is their purpose. And to the extent that we depend on them, we may only succeed in achieving a false sense of security, based on an illusionary sense of knowledged "possessed".

While I agree with you to a certain extent that "doctrinal thinking" is limited to our finitude I would contend that revelation is necessarily 'knowledge possessed'.

Isn't the real problem our limitations of analysis?

[betty boop]

I would contend that revelation is necessarily 'knowledge possessed'.

For the person who "gets it," I'd say, yes, definitely -- that is valid "knowledge possessed." But we only possess it because it is a free gift to us from its Source -- God. We can't "do it" all on our own. We can't "take heaven by storm." And the Spirit moves where it wilt....