Originally Posted by efw
Originally Posted by nighthawk


But I'm still puzzling over:

In the Bible the Lord said the Bible is the word of God
The Bible was written by men
God said men are liars.

Huh? Doesn't that mean the first statement is a lie?



If that were your assertion as a Roman Catholic it’d prove too much. Logically it would mean that your other authoritative source of revelation, Church tradition, is identically flawed.

This would leave you in the position of post modern followers of Schleiermacher who essentially gutted what we’d call historic Christianity (ie Christ’s power to save effectually) and left behind moralisms and worship with forms emptied of their substance. Ie the dead end of all relativistic roads, nihilism.

I was just musing on the logic of the proposition, a philosophical car crash. Like the paradox: I always lie. And that's the truth.


The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh

Which explains a lot.