James Stark wrote:
>Wendee, what do you mean by "perfect truth"? It appears to be the same as
>"absolutely know all truth. What is the context for this knowing? How
would
>you define truth?
All I meant by that was "truth" according to God Himself! Maybe one day
when we arrive in heaven, all the answers about how God really created the
world will be revealed to us. What was reality, what actually happened, and
how were people deceived along the way? It's not just creation, it is many
things. There are many, many questions I have that I would love to have God
tell me the "real" answer! For these unanswered questions, if I claim to
know the "true" answers on earth I will probably just be full of it! ;)
Does that make sense?
>When is it justifiable to use revealed truth in our interpretations?
I don't believe that revealed truth is something that can be claimed to
hold for everyone, unless it is the essentials of the Christian faith.
There are some things that all Christians agree on and these ar eoutlined
in the creeds. There are lots of people who clim to have revealed truth
that are simply false prophets (Joseph Smith, Branch Davidian dude, crazy
people who think they are Jesus, abortion clinic bombers). I don't trust
what an individual Christian claims is revealed truth (unless I have your
definition wrong) unless it holds to the essential doctrine. If it is
revealed to one person, it is for that person and not for that person to
push all over humanity. We all have different roles, like parts of the
body. When the hand starts telling the leg to act like a hand, the body is
in trouble. I don't know if I answered the question exactly but those are
just some thoughts.
So what is a straw man argument?
Wendee
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