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To: adiaireton8
If you want to say that nobody has it right ...

Again, not what I said. Please stop misquoting me. You left out the word ALL. nobody has it ALL right.

1,082 posted on 10/23/2006 3:15:00 PM PDT by proud_2_B_texasgal (Blood-bought, born again, spirit-filled ..........................)
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To: proud_2_B_texasgal
Again, not what I said. Please stop misquoting me. You left out the word ALL. nobody has it ALL right.

I was referring your following statement:

No person, no church, no single interpretation is "right".

But if this statement itself is right, then there is one person who is "right", namely, you, at least on *one* point.

Anytime somebody claims that no person or church has it right, I wonder how that person can possibly know that. Did they go investigate all persons, all churches? No. Typically, it is just an expression of skepticism regarding the possibility of acquiring truth, assumed because the person him or herself does not want there to be others out there who have it right, because that would mean that he or she should be trying to acquire knowledge. It is more intellectually comforting if we tell ourselves that nobody has the truth except God.

I'm not claiming that this is where you are coming from, but I often see this attitude in my students.

-A8

1,083 posted on 10/23/2006 3:24:50 PM PDT by adiaireton8 ("There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse." - Plato, Phaedo 89d)
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