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To: OWK
It is knowledge that I seek.

If that were true, it would be G-d that you seek. I sense that it is your self that you seek, and to make your own knowledge the master of all. Mind, I'm not suggesting that you not try to learn everything that you can. I'm just suggesting that you recognize that you don't know everything. Just out of curiosity - out of everything there is possible to be known in the universe, what percentage would you say you know?

Faith and knowledge are by definition mutually exclusive.

With a statement like that I'm going to assume you're rather young. If not, you're at least rather naive. Faith is the ultimate knowledge. Whether you know it or not, and you seem philosophically opposed to admit the axioms that are the foundation of your worldview, you have great faith that the universe operates according to fixed laws. Do you know where that idea originated?

Shalom.

844 posted on 01/05/2002 5:22:50 AM PST by ArGee
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To: ArGee
With a statement like that I'm going to assume you're rather young. If not, you're at least rather naive.

With a statement like that, I'm going to assume that you're rather full of yourself.

845 posted on 01/05/2002 5:26:17 AM PST by OWK
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To: ArGee
faith (fayth) n.
Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence.

As I said... in the context of this discussion, faith and knowledge are mutually exclusive. If knowledge is acquired to substantiate a given premise, it is no longer held on faith.

Faith requires an absence of substantiating knowledge.

That's what makes it faith.

847 posted on 01/05/2002 5:30:17 AM PST by OWK
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