Yeah, it seems. It can be both ways.
The only thing I'm absolutely certain of is that nothing is certain. You probably heard that from somewhere but figured it out the hard way.
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OTOH, perhaps we're using different definitions of those terms and talking at cross-purposes.
It seems to me that infallibility means not needing an open mind - if you know with absolute certainty, there's nothing to keep an open mind about.
"Nothing is certain." is a statement of unbelief. You said that Jesus is your Messiah. Are you certain?The only thing I'm absolutely certain of is that nothing is certain.
"Nothing is certain." is a statement of unbelief. You said that Jesus is your Messiah. Are you certain?
So you are saying you are 98% sure that Lord Jesus is your Messiah?Because of the supernatural experiences I had
But everything to me now is by percentage. My certainty of who really Christ is may be around 98%
In essence, nothing is 100% to me.
Ironically, it is some of these supernatural experiences that casted huge doubts and re-evaluation of my previous perception of reality.
Some of these are disturbingly massive and have worldwide effect, affecting the whole planet.
Yeah, it seems. It can be both ways.
The only thing I'm absolutely certain of is that nothing is certain. You probably heard that from somewhere but figured it out the hard way.
Certainly!There is no such thing as "his truth, her truth, my truth," there is only the truth.
So you are saying you are 98% sure that Lord Jesus is your Messiah?
Listen to this song. Hopefully you will re-evaluate and clarify your position.
Well, He is your brother. He is our brother.We all experience Him supernaturally and personally.I'm not trying to say He isn't real but He might be related to me differently than with anyone else.
From supernatural experiences that were on a personal level.
He never says in His Word or Purpose or Plan that He would be related to someone in any way different from what He Says in His Word and Purpose and Plan.I'm not trying to say He isn't real but He might be related to me differently than with anyone else.
From supernatural experiences that were on a personal level.
It's a nice story; no doubt it was appreciated by those it was aimed at.Think again about Peter walking on water.
So what do you mean by 'infallible'?Yeah, it seems. It can be both ways.
If nothing is certain infallibility is impossible (or meaningless).The only thing I'm absolutely certain of is that nothing is certain.
Perhaps more than a 'nice' story, it is like a glass of water for someone who is thirsty.It's a nice story; no doubt it was appreciated by those it was aimed at.
It is 100% true.It's a nice story; no doubt it was appreciated by those it was aimed at.
Yes!Because the book in which it appears says so?
So what do you mean by 'infallible'?
If nothing is certain infallibility is impossible (or meaningless).
What is your plumb line for truth?Exactly. And that's the world we live in.
What we really have are only fragments of the truth.
Believing a claim because the claimant also claims it's true is logically redundant, no different from simply believing the claim. Presumably, you don't just believe all claims made in books, so there must be something more to it - perhaps it's an appealing claim, you want it to be true; and/or it's a deeply familiar claim (perhaps you've always believed it); and/or a lot of people believe it; and/or people you respect believe it; and/or it fills a need, you'd feel lost without it; and/or it makes you feel good...Yes!
So infallibility is a hypothetical; relevant only to thought experiments involving Laplace's Demon.No future discovery will ever make your beliefs or knowledge false.
A good example of this is that people many centuries ago thought the Earth is the center of the Universe. Subsequent discoveries in astronomy eventually rendered that knowledge false.
Because we can't always predict what we will discover in the future, then we really have no certainty that the knowledge we possess now would still hold true tomorrow.
It's not a very good analogy because position and momentum are Fourier transforms of each other, conjugate variables, so the 'uncertainty' is, ironically, well-defined; which is not the case with uncertainty about the future, which is a function of incomplete knowledge, complexity, non-linear dynamics, and so-on.These sounds all too familiar with the "Uncertainty Principle" in Quantum Mechanics. The more you know about the particle's position, the more uncertain the momentum becomes (and vice versa)
Be a scientist, in other words.I really hate to settle for what we know currently. It's never good to live on unreliable knowledge. If you know you're going to live on inaccurate knowlege, you might as well extrapolate the possibilities, find correlations with reality, and weed out the weakest theories.
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