Originally Posted by nighthawk
Originally Posted by efw


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.


Yeah I wondered which is why I put “if”.

Ultimately anyone so bold as to assert any really conclusions on the ultimate questions will fall back on a circular argument of one sort or another. They’re all “philosophical car crashes” so-to-speak, accept the ones that are easy & safe.

But what fun is that??