fresco wrote:Bartikus,
No, we can rely on nothing
absolutely except perhaps the certainty of our own death.....and that is where the "faith fairy" makes things O.K by giving absolution to the faithful !
"Fuzzy Logic" has a greater range of application than binary logic, but neither can evaluate axioms. We are ultimately drawn to the conclusion that "truth is what works" and "what works is negotiable".( Pontius Pilate was on the right track whan he asked "what is truth ?" but he got the wrong answer !
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No he did'nt.
"You are a king, then!" said Pilate. Jesus answered, "You are right in saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me."
"What is truth?" Pilate asked. With this he went out again to the Jews and said, "I find no basis for a charge against him. "" (John 18:33-38)
Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place." Jesus said he was the truth and the truth will set you free.
When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it. Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
This blood can only be applied those who believe in him. He died by choice, for the sake of those who would believe in him and in his words.
Just as by choice...men begin to trust in him or reject him.
God can only trust those ...with the future.....who trust him.
What is it do you think you have to lose in this world? What is it that you think you have to gain from this world? I tell you the truth.
nothing.
What is to be had...if not had...forever?
If anything (ideas, knowledge, wealth) is here today and gone tomorrow in the cosmological perspective as you allude to. Has it really ever been?
in a blink of an eye......gone
Not ideas that endure forever....not knowlege that endures forever....not treasure that endure forever!
Such things could only come from an eternal source. Without that....what is there?........and for how long?
(You might want to avoid the cosmological perspective at this point to make it easier to bear or .....know the truth!)
You hold tight to the things that are temporary...(that will be gone)...so much so.....you fail to take hold of the eternal!
Who has the mental virus?
Just think about it.