I would invite you to visit this link for a more intellectual discourse on what I have been trying to convey about truth being different to every individual: http://experimentaltheology.blogspot.com/2007/06/walk-with-william-james-part-5-random.html
I'll quote the first three paragraphs just to pique your interest: (the James mentioned here is William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910), a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher).
In his book Pragmatism, James famously claimed that "The trail of the human serpent is thus over everything." What James is claiming is that there is a subjective component, a human component, to all knowing.
This observation can be trivially true or radically controversial. On the trivial end of the continuum it seems obvious that WE are the locus of all truth-adjudication. Reality only makes sense to us as it relates to us. If reality doesn't relate to us then how would we know of it or about it?
A more radical claim is that, due to our subjectivity, we can NEVER know reality independently of ourselves. That is, we can never grasp an objective truth, a truth uncontaminated by human subjectivity. (Bold print mine).
Richard Beck is a professor at Abilene Christian University. My great friend Arnold put me on to him and I have found a plethora of articles that at first read are way over my head but when I study them slowly and systematically I am astounded. So far I have not put up any defenses but I am skeptical about some things. But I won't assume a position until I believe I more thoroughly understand.
If you go to his home page, http://experimentaltheology.blogspot.com/ you will find down the right side a list of possibly 100 or more articles Beck has written. I am reading through a series of 9 articles on Original Sin. I've expressed my position on Original Sin on this blog before, and it hasn't changed. I can say that the more I dig the clearer things become and the more I believe the Apostle Paul has been credited with teaching Original Sin appearing with the first humans, when in fact he was not. But if you are interested in that challenge you can find the 9 articles in that list.
Spring has spring here in the Valley. I hear the mid-west got blasted over the weekend. Hope you keep it out there. I'm tired of it this year. Cheers.
