@kellyjay saidAs you might know, there's at least one story in the Jewish tradition about an illiterate farmer or shepherd who is sincerely devout but who feels embarrassed that he doesn't know how to pray, and an Angel tells him that The Lord would be happy just to hear him count numbers or recite the aleph-bet for The Lord's ears.
Just read dive not much is required of you.
@kellyjay saidIf you will not allow Christ the Liberator to free you from some blab that some (perhaps well-meaning) Jewish guys wrote thousands of years ago, then maybe you don't want to be free.
If you cannot tell reality from opinion nothing I say will help you.
Maybe you feel more comfortable trying to control others -- for their own good, of course.
@kellyjay saidyou cannot know if you are right or not
Therefore, you cannot know if you are right or not, ever, that as far as you are
concerned, the truth will always be elusive to you!?
Cannot "know"?
That's right.
You for example have your religious faith. That is BELIEVING, not KNOWING.
My opinion about the "truth" in these matters is also a case of BELIEVING and not KNOWING, regardless of how certain I might be. Same goes for you.
@kellyjay said"Forever learning", yes, for some people, maybe not all. Some will retreat into curiosity-ending or certainty-driven ideology.
Do you think you will forever be
learning and never coming to knowledge, just an endless loop of speculation?
We all have our personal opinions about the veracity of the "knowledge" we believe we have in these matters.
@kellyjay saidWhat I "profess" are just the beliefs that I hold about the "truth" after I synthesise everything I have ever read, every conversation I have ever had, and everything I have ever heard, thought and experienced.
If
you profess this as a truth that must include everyone, how do you know this is
true?