re certainty and arrogance a reply to a post by kilroy gboro rowan edu aka nancy s sweetheart human brains are infested with sin and they can only be trusted in very limited circumstances i would beg to differ with you here the properly formed conscience can be trusted virtually all the time i am not so sure though about something so materialistic as the human brain does that mass of tissue possess anything trustworthy your observation would probably be valid if we were discussing the mind of an animal but the human being is only half animal as it were and half spiritual at the moment he stops speaking and people start interpreting the possibility of error appears did he mean that literally or not we do not have any record that he elaborated on the words was he thinking of tran or con substatiation he didn t say we interpret this passage using our brains we think and reason and draw conclusions but we know that our brains are not perfect our thinking often leads us wrong this is something that most of us have direct experience of now you have hit on the purpose of the church it is by necessity the infallible interpreter of divine revelation without the church christianity would be nothing more than a bunch of little divisive sects unless you are infallible there are very few things you can be certain of to the extent that doctrines rely on fallible human thinking they cannot be certain this argument of yours regarding the certainty of an observation or a conclusion is not necessarily substantiated by experience it reminds me of the theoretical physicist who said that you can never be certain of a measurment because the sensor interferes with the field you are trying to measure now the experimental physicist will reply that although the measurement can never be made with absolute certainty he is able to determine the certainty with which the measurement can be made and this knowledge is often sufficient to render the measurement useful enough to allow evidence of the true condition of the field under observation therefore although our minds are finite and susceptible to error our competence in arriving at inductive insights gives confidence in our ability to distinguish what is true from what is not true even in areas not subject to the experimental method darren f provine kilroy gboro rowan edu if any substantial number of talk religion misc readers read some wittgenstein of the postings would disappear if they understood some wittgenstein would disappear michael l siemon this quote seems a little arrogant don t you think boundary no teneis que pensar que yo haya venido a traer la paz a la tierra no he venido a traer la paz sino la guerra mateo vulgata latina
