James 1 5 Posted January 28, 2022 Posted January 28, 2022 On 1/23/2022 at 12:32 PM, Olmec Donald said: I understand what you're saying, but we can't still get away from our own fallibility: Fallible me is making the fallible decision to put my trust in a theoretically fallible external source, which inevitably includes my fallible interpretations of that external source. If there is a consistently winning formula, I have yet to pinpoint it. But Calm's paradigm introduces the idea that maybe the uncertainty of fallibility is intentional, which implies the priority may be the trial-and-error progression of individuals, rather than uniformity of correct beliefs, at least at THIS stage in our progression. And maybe it's not so much which of us has hit upon the most correct beliefs, but rather how we treat the least among us. The winning formula seems to be, to me, learning through trial and error to gain knowledge of good and evil. That fruit that got us in this situation in the first place with Adam and Eve. They didn't know what evil was until they knew who was Satan. We hear from people who tell us what they think and then we choose whoever's thoughts seem good to us. And sometimes those thoughts are not really good even though they seem to be good. Trial and error. We end up a disciple of whoever we follow. 1
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