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Re (3): Truth, etc. etc.
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Posted on August 31, 2005 at 01:44:41 PM by Eric
Hello,
Lol. :) So much of life amounts to perspective, doesn't it? What seems elitist to one is a lifeline to another (such as the struggling college student who is being explicitly or implicitly taught that faith and reason are irreconcilable instead of being the birds of a feather the pair actually are). And let us hope that if we define words like "is," it is not to cover our behinds but rather to bring clarity and insight into the truth. One's motivation is nine-tenths of the law, or something like that. :) When functioning properly, analytic thought attempts to take the world apart so that when the world is put back together again, it becomes richer and fuller and certain creases and wrinkles have been smoothed out of the understanding. If truth is what really sets us free—and I believe it is, for we must always admit we have a problem first before we can expect to get any relief from it—then different tools, like 3-D glasses in the theater, can help bring out in sharp relief what would otherwise go unnoticed. The person is dying and no one knows why—until the penetrating focus of the microscope reveals the malignant batch of cancer cells, so seemingly small and innocuous and yet so entirely lethal unless first identified, then isolated, and finally cut away all together. After the cutting comes the healing, which takes time; apologetics requires time. It is not impulsive and that is both its strength and its weakness. It is a tool that goes alongside intuition and other forms of knowing that help contribute to the collective whole. After all, when God created man in His own image, He gave man both a head and a heart and the two need to work in concert if the body and soul are to be healthy. Unfortunately, modern man tends to want to isolate one to the expense of the other. Equally unfortunate perhaps is that sometimes when one gets carried too far to the extreme, an equal and opposite dose of the other needs to be called in to restore order and harmony.
God bless,
Eric
Universalism: One Way of Many
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- Re(4): Truth, etc. etc. - By Sara August 31, 2005 at 02:24:43 PM