Thursday, March 14, 2002

These are just some thoughts I scribbled down in religion class about that whole truth/knowledge/God thing. Well that sort of encompasses all of life right there, doesn't it? This wasn't meant to be a total proof, or totally coherent, so there are gaps in the reasoning.


1.) The universe exists as a collection of truths, which are understood as knowledge.

2.) We recgonize that there is truth beyond the conception of human understanding and knowledge.Other truths exist than those that we are capable of knowing, ergo the truth of existence.

3.) We say "discovered" and not "invented" when referring to new knowledge, implying prior existence.

4.) Knowledge should not exist where there is not the capacity to know. For it to be, would there not have to be a knower?

5.) There had to exist the very knowledge of DNA before it was discovered; it did not create itself out of thin air for us. Would there have to be a being which previously held this truth?

6.) Knowledge of all truths must be held by a being higher than we.We perceive it rarely and indistinctly.
6.) The possessor of this knowledge is a godhead.
7.) Additionally, what we perceive to be knowledge and truth must be by human nature imperfect. If there is no God, and our knowledge is the only and supreme knowledge, is flawed knowledge what we must settle for?
8.) Back to the same conclusion--Supreme and Perfect Forms of Knowledge and Truth exist, and are held by God.

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