Re: [asa] spong wrong

Hi Dave,

Apologies if I wasn't as clear as may be in my post.

I absolutely agree that human knowledge involves fallibility and I don't
intend anything I wrote in the previous to suggest otherwise. I was
simply making the point that if one wants to decry absolute statements
then one shouldn't make them.

What's particularly annoying about those who trot out the "there are no
absolute claims" rhetoric is that they do it PRECISELY to establish an
absolute claim about the nature of truth and human cognition. In this
respect, comments such as Spong's really mean "I reject YOUR absolute
claims, and substitute my own." I'm not sure such privileging of such
obviously incoherent positions should be permitted.

Blessings,
Murray Hogg
Pastor, East Camberwell Baptist Church, Victoria, Australia
Post-Grad Student (MTh), Australian College of Theology

D. F. Siemens, Jr. wrote:
> Murray,
> Don't claim too much. Truth may be an absolute standard, as is knowledge,
> but what humans grasp involves fallibility. There is a wise saying: It
> ain't the things we don't know that gives us the most trouble, but the
> things we know for sure that ain't so.
> Dave (ASA)

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Received on Sat Jun 7 05:20:07 2008