Reply #63: I disagree

[kwassa]

Do "profound spiritual truths" live in the same realm of knowledge where Washington is the first President, or in the realm of knowledge where you can feel like you know that Lincoln is the first President? While there's something good to be said about being in touch with your own feelings, I hardly think that maintaining an accurate internal ledger of how you felt about this thing and that as you go through life constitutes a very grand search for truth or knowledge.

I disagree, of course. The problem I have with your analogy is that it is easily and objectively possible to find out who the first president of the United States is. It is impossible to do this with various concepts of the divine that have permeated human history for our history as far back as we can trace it. These varied concepts are both different and familiar to one another, but it is impossible to pin down exactly the nature of God because, as many different faiths say, God is much greater than our ability to know him. I am using the word God as a stand-in for a variety of concepts, as I personally don't see God as a being, which is a limited idea.