60-40 Rule part 5: defense from is-a-God view

So I also have a defense for those who believe there is a God. You guys who don't believe in divine beings will not get into this one. But you can come back for post #7 where I address binary distinctions such as atheist vs. theist rightness / wrongness.

Now you all who believe in God are likely to think that God is 100% right and therefore scripture is 100% right and consequently because you believe both God and scripture you're 100% right about stuff God has revealed in scripture. But I'm sorry, you're not God and you're still not more than 60% right just like everyone else.

Here's my first defense. The truth of God is an inherent quality of the infinity of God and is, as such, infinite (as is the essence of love, beauty and joy for the same reason). It encompasses all that is, all that has been, all that might be, and all that is not. That's kind of the way infinite works - nothing can be outside of it or it's not infinite.

I would put the possibility of the human mind, any human mind, even all human minds of all time put together, comprehending even the smallest fragment of infinite divine truth at not only far less than 60%, but probably far less than 1%. So it doesn't matter how much God knows or how much he's revealed through scripture, you and I are just not capable of understanding more than 1% of it. We're just not in that ballpark at all.

But here's the second point. God is, by definition the essence of truth as such, absolute, unlimited truth; it is unconditioned and self-existent. However, the truth within the context of which we live - the truth we are capable of understanding - the truth of the manifest universe, of human societies and of all the beings and creatures - is a contingent truth, a conditional truth. It's dependent on innumerable factors and circumstances; it's created out of our understanding and experience; it changes as our circumstances change, as our comprehension changes. Even if God reveals divine truth, we don't have the mental capacity to understand anything that lies outside our own experience. Our truth isn't just less comprehensive but of an entirely different order from the truth of God.

So citing God's truth as if that makes you automatically right, seriously misrepresents both God's truth and our human capacity. We're not only not in the same ballpark, we wouldn't even be able to recognize the balls in that park, let alone catch them - presuming we could even recognize the park itself even if we were looking at it.

In other words, when it comes to living as human beings in the universe as we know it at any given moment, we're all in the same boat. Our arguments with each other about who is more right are like someone on top of one building and someone else on top of a different building arguing about who is closer to the Crab Nebula.

If you bring God at all into arguments of who's right and who's wrong, you've missed the bus to that ballpark right from the start. You're on a completely wrong bus line.


See the next blog for more points to miss.