Off the deep end VI
October 17, 2005
Perhaps you are getting a little weary of thinking about all this philosophical stuff. Come to think of it, so am I. Let me see if I can wrap it up.
My main premise was that the mind is our connecting link between our body (the physical world) and our soul (our personhood). The former has to do with what we most often call “reality;” the latter to do with quite another “reality” that is supernatural and religious in nature. Both are real in the sense that both exist in our consciousness and are not just figments of our imagination.
To think about our souls correctly requires knowing God. John Calvin said in his Institutes that we must seek knowledge of God before we can have knowledge of self. Since God is by definition an infinite being, and since it is painfully obvious that you and I are finite beings, our knowledge of both God and ourselves is necessarily incomplete. That shouldn’t stop us from seeking knowledge of things. It seems that we are programmed to keep asking questions, and every now and then God may slip us an answer.
Well, I have taken it as far as I can and will let it rest for now.
Dave, which his head hurts.
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