| jfrog |
06-10-2010 12:04 PM |
Re: How do you decide what to believe?
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Originally Posted by Brad Murphy
(Post 922933)
I guess my thought is... if God leads each of us towards truth, then wouldn't it follow that as people get more religious (ie- closer to God), they would be LESS divisive and have more in common with each other?
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Not necessarily. They may actually appear to have less in common with each other for a long time. If given enough time then they would eventually start to have more and more things in common. I think the time required for that is longer than any individual human lifetime.
EDIT: I think the biggest difference is this: We can conceptualize a "truthline" that is kind of like a number line where the things further left aren't as true as the things further right. It seems reasonable to assume that if two people are getting closer to the truth then eventually their views will start to converge. It is even true that they will EVENTUALLY converge. However, before their views begin to converge they can actually diverge and jump all over the place and yet still both be seen as getting closer to the truth. I want to make it clear that they are not getting physically closer to the truth in this instance, but if by going through these diverging steps the two people eventually get to a place where their views start converging then it can be said that by physically diverging from each other was all part of the process that eventually led to those two peoples beliefs converging. So, even by physically diverging they can be said to be converging ;) |
