@philokalia saidBut your beliefs and your perceptions and your certainties about what has or has not been "revealed" are just as prone to being the product a "tiny little human brain at work not knowing anything larger then a shoebox can hold" as my beliefs and perceptions and certainties about what has or has not been "revealed" are.
He and I believe that there is an element of revealed truth at play, that's why.
Which is also why we must be dependant on the revealed truth.
Your apparent endorsement of the 'tiny little human brain at work not knowing anything larger then a shoebox can hold' style of "argument" reflects poorly on you.
@philokalia saidAttributing a "tiny little human brain at work not knowing anything larger then a shoebox can hold" to people who believe different things from you [or galveston75] does not strengthen or substantiate your assertions about "the revealed truth".
Which is also why we must be dependant on the revealed truth.
@fmf saidOh, was he really directing that at you? I imagine you'd roll with the punches since you don't mind trading insults and this is the internet, right?
Attributing a "tiny little human brain at work not knowing anything larger then a shoebox can hold" to people who believe different things from you [or galveston75] does not strengthen or substantiate your assertions about "the revealed truth".
But it is pretty common for Christians to say that we are not intelligent enough to understand the universe..
St. Augustine famously did that.
@fmf saidSure you can reduce it to that argument that we fail to actually receive the word correctly or we hallucinated it or were duped, but we have faith we aren't and everything becomes debatable like that.
But your beliefs and your perceptions and your certainties about what has or has not been "revealed" are just as prone to being the product a "tiny little human brain at work not knowing anything larger then a shoebox can hold" as my beliefs and perceptions and certainties about what has or has not been "revealed" are.
Your apparent endorsement of the 'tiny little human brain ...[text shortened]... ork not knowing anything larger then a shoebox can hold' style of "argument" reflects poorly on you.
An argument can be made against anything.
It doesn't mean it's a good argument, though
@philokalia saidIt was seemingly the only "argument" he was offering in reply to my post and with regard to the dissent of committed Christians who are ex-JWs. He has dismissed dozens and dozens of posts by countless contributors here with the same "argument" over the years.
Oh, was he really directing that at you?
@philokalia saidWhat "similar level of discussion" are you talking about now? Similar to what?
Surely you wouldn't be upset if other people engage in a similar level of discussion. It is the internet after all
@philokalia saidIt's a very weak "argument" for bolstering one's beliefs and discounting someone else's. I'd say it is something offered instead of a genuine "argument". Am I "not intelligent enough to understand" why I ought to be a JW?
But it is pretty common for Christians to say that we are not intelligent enough to understand the universe..