Re:The Yale Problem Begins in High School
by fleitz on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @07:59PM
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The foundational principles are usually logically inconsistent with each other.
Please explain how you proceed logically from the position that eating from the tree of knowledge is sin?
Re:The Yale Problem Begins in High School
by dllthomas on Thursday November 26, 2015 @12:10AM
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"Please explain how you proceed logically from the position that eating from the tree of knowledge is sin?"
This doesn't seem hard. Apologist hat on.
It wasn't the knowledge that was bad, it's that the knowledge was attained by doing what God said not to. Certainly, we can condemn things done in pursuit of knowledge - Mengele being probably the easiest example.
That hat fit kinda funny.
Re:The Yale Problem Begins in High School
by nickbauman on Monday November 30, 2015 @05:15PM
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> It wasn't the knowledge that was bad, it's that the knowledge was attained by doing what God said not to.
This is merely an interpretation (incidentally, of which all text requires). How do you know it is the correct one?
Re:The Yale Problem Begins in High School
by dllthomas on Monday December 07, 2015 @09:32PM
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Personally? I've no idea if it's the correct one. Not subscribing to a school of thought that admits supernatural origin of these stories, I'm not really sure what "the correct one" would mean for me.
I interpreted fleitz (in the bit I quoted) as saying "if knowledge is bad, then we shouldn't be using logic to get us more knowledge, so the whole exercise is absurd." I was pointing out that there's at least one out.
Theology, while its foundational principles may be established on the basis of revelation such as scripture, often proceeds from foundational principles by logic.