Paradigms
I was asked the other day what paradigms I employed to make sense of the world. It's a good question. I routinely make use of three perspectives, all of which are found in one particular book of the Bible.
1) There need be no guarantees of causality. Things happen. Deal with them. Some can be constrained by logic and some may seem to fit laws based on observation over time. If the model works, it works. How come it works? We've no idea.
2) There need be no evidence for God. No direct evidence, anyway; most of it is circumstantial, ambiguous, oblique, apparently misleading, impossible to confirm. If the evidence were irrefutable, then human existence with logical free will is incompatible. We'd be angelic beings: knowing the truth, we'd have to stand against it deliberately in order to exercise will. God stands on His own merits and need not convince us of them.
3) There is no need to convert anyone. We are called upon to be witnesses, not transmuters. The Spirit handles conversions. We are only brokers, instruments, conduits. And if we're not believed, so be it.
1) There need be no guarantees of causality. Things happen. Deal with them. Some can be constrained by logic and some may seem to fit laws based on observation over time. If the model works, it works. How come it works? We've no idea.
2) There need be no evidence for God. No direct evidence, anyway; most of it is circumstantial, ambiguous, oblique, apparently misleading, impossible to confirm. If the evidence were irrefutable, then human existence with logical free will is incompatible. We'd be angelic beings: knowing the truth, we'd have to stand against it deliberately in order to exercise will. God stands on His own merits and need not convince us of them.
3) There is no need to convert anyone. We are called upon to be witnesses, not transmuters. The Spirit handles conversions. We are only brokers, instruments, conduits. And if we're not believed, so be it.
etched with acid at 4:42:00 pm
2 Comments:
Ultimately?
I think it is possible to challenge God.
I did.
And he put me in the fourth dimension.
Care for me to explain? ;)
Of course it is possible to challenge God. Job, Abraham, Moses, Jonah all did – with varying results. But He remains God, and we remain mortal, as far as this particular interaction goes.
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