tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803820307342759530.comments2022-11-11T04:52:12.300-08:00Pharsea's WorldPharseahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12363621957050900009noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803820307342759530.post-74151327373629982872012-06-01T01:06:01.877-07:002012-06-01T01:06:01.877-07:00The Hebrew word you refer to may be translated as ...The Hebrew word you refer to may be translated as "truth", but from what you say it is a richer concept than "truth" in English. Also, people misuse and extend the use of words in all sort of poetic ways.<br /><br />Of course "truth is not enough": not even when it comes to ideas. An idea that is true is not, by virtue of its truth, *known* to be true. Ortho-doxy is not episteme.<br /><br />To know (episteme) is to love God; but "true-belief" about God is compatible with mortal sin.<br /><br />To say that "truth is a Person" is true poetically, but not technically. What it might mean is the the human nature (not Person) of Jesus (Jesus does not have a human person, but is only a divine person) authentically manifested the Divine Nature as "the visible ikon of the invisible God".<br /><br />I strongly concur that faith in God arises from an encounter of love with God. Hence my emphasis on Liturgical worship, which is the closest thing we have in this world to "making love with God."Pharseahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12363621957050900009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803820307342759530.post-87933751441818539402012-05-31T16:57:33.675-07:002012-05-31T16:57:33.675-07:00A suggestion: truth is a Person, and is only secon...A suggestion: truth is a Person, and is only secondarily a property of things that are not-God (AKA creatures). <br /><br />Another complication: *aletheia* in Greek & *emeth* in Hebrew may overlap, but in the OT, truth is "done" - it is not simply a property of assertions. <br /><br />ISTM that Christian faith comes by personal encounter with this Person, Who is also "God-with-us" - not by assertions. They do not have the personal dynamism that meeting a person does. Friendships engagr our whole persons, not just our intelligences. Which is why the intellectualism of so much popular apologetic STM to be misguided: knowing =///= loving, let alone being Loved. Truth is not enough. It's like the human skeleton: necessary for life, but not enough.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01087465561831286452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803820307342759530.post-52986641594548114422011-02-06T05:26:18.894-08:002011-02-06T05:26:18.894-08:00I liked that you tried to imagine what it would be...I liked that you tried to imagine what it would be like to be a mouse and that you tried to help it get back to it's natural habitat.It always bothers me that most peoples first reaction on encountering a creature in their home is that they should kill it.I feel it is so much better to respect the value of all life and to gently capture it and release back into its natural environment.<br /><br />William Blake<br />Little Fly, <br />Thy summer's play <br />My thoughtless hand <br />Has brushed away.<br />Am not I <br />A fly like thee? <br />Or art not thou <br />A man like me?<br />For I dance <br />And drink, and sing, <br />Till some blind hand <br />Shall brush my wing.<br /><br />If thought is life <br />And strength and breath <br />And the want <br />Of thought is death;<br /><br />Then am I <br />A happy fly, <br />If I live, <br />Or if I die.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09219872356741470133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803820307342759530.post-54427637761053384712011-01-27T14:14:35.065-08:002011-01-27T14:14:35.065-08:00Well this is going to take a few reads. It's a...Well this is going to take a few reads. It's a wonderful argument.<br /><br />It seems reasonable to me that if God wanted us to know Him undeniably and without error then He would have hard-wired that knowledge into our nature, my very being. The knowledge of any data received via the senses is necessarily dependent upon the rational faculty to comprehend it? If God wanted that knowledge beyond doubt, then He would necessarily have to by-pass the sense-world, the world in which we find ourselves, and come to know ourselves in and by relation to the cosmos around us, because the senses are always interrogated by the rational faculty, which renders a sense of 'reality' according to its capacity make intelligible to itself the sensory data it receives.<br /><br />Such a God would not allow us to question His nature, and thus if such knowledge is what He wills, He does so perfectly and is not subject to any condition or determination by man.<br /><br />Such knowledge of God, as you so rightly point out, would strip us of the freedom to love Him.Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07979560743952155920noreply@blogger.com