RE: Reply to Glenn's 9/11 post

My point is that some of it must conform to reality and we must somehow be
able to know that. If we can't know that what we know conforms to reality at
least in part, then we are simply at risk of making it all up.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: jwburgeson@juno.com [mailto:jwburgeson@juno.com]
>Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 4:42 PM
>To: glennmorton@entouch.net
>Cc: asa@calvin.edu
>Subject: Re: Reply to Glenn's 9/11 post
>
>
>Glenn: "My point is that if all we are doing is painting pictures
>of something we can't not know, then there is no correspondence with
>reality,"
>
>And we CAN'T know, Glen, on our own. God (the HS) must do the revealing.
>Even then, all we can ever do is see God through metaphor. And no
>metaphor is either "reality" or even close to it.
>
>jb
>
>See Polkinghorne's book (link to review below)
>
>www.burgy.50megs.com/faith.htm
>
>
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Received on Sat Oct 9 13:52:42 2004