... the killer was at the very beginning of the book, why would we have any reason to read the rest? Why would we have any desire to put together the clues? Now, before anyone thinks that Brad has gone all Gnostic on us. The knowability of God is not some secret knowledge. God reveals his light to us as we are ready. Did you catch that? As we are ready.I humbly bow to the one true God of the universe ...

I'm reading Richard Posner's book The Economics of Justice and ran across this quote: "The basic function of law in an economic or wealth-maximization perspective is to alter incentives. This implies that law does not command the impossible; a command that is impossible to fulfill will not alter behavior. ... Law as a system for altering incentives and thus regulating behavior must also be public ...

... flip, Obama essentially takes the same position all over again.  His answer is typical of the religious left who in many respects have allowed the "immensity of God swallow up his knowability".  They claim our human frailties make it impossible for us to decide issues like this with great certainty.  A viewpoint like this one applied universally is devastating right and ...

... Background, p.242)--but this is exactly what is too often labeled wrongly as "Hebraic" orthopraxy against the "Greek" orthodoxy. Pyrrho, the founder of skepticism "challenged not just the value of things but even their knowability" (Dictionary of New Testament Background, p.242)--again 'unknowability' is wrongly labeled as 'Hebraic' as if it is never found in Greek thought. Some aspects of the ...

... lunch with jencallisto. The more time I spend with her, the more I hope she gets a job back here when she finishes. Really, there aren?t enough people in my life who will tackle the nature of reality and the knowability of truth (and whether objective truth even exists.)I am a person truly blessed in my friends. (And now off to bed so that I can enjoy early brunch with ariadne_3 tomorrow.)

... that the existence of gods is unknown or unknowable.>> > > > It's the statement regarding the knowability of gods that is the agnostic> > > > statement not the statement of the belief in gods.>> > > > So, the statement regarding knowability is completely distinct from the> > > > statement regarding belief.>> > ...