Nimos
Well-Known Member
You can get knowledge about the material and how to understand it. But you will never reach a point where God will become anything other than you having faith in him. There are no tests or ways for you to apply your knowledge of scriptures to get closer to understanding how a potential God operate or he want. Which is the ultimate goal I would assume?When starting on a spiritual journey faith is what pull you forward, than when you stuinner wisdom arise, and faith become understanding, just like a student of science have faith in the teaching and in the teacher, when ended education the scientist understand his/her field.
So even if you take the teacher which you have the most confident in, you would never be able to verify whether they are in fact correct or not, you might get closer to agreeing with them and share their view on the meaning of the scriptures, but ultimately it will never become knowledge, but purely you having more faith in it being the truth and therefore that your version of what this God want is more accurate than what someone else believes.
Which eventually comes down to you being able to argue your version versus someone else version.
But in regard to knowledge it not even remotely close to two scientists discussing whether gravity is real or not. Because its not a matter of opinion but rather which of them can best explain the observed data. And if one of them is clearly way off, surely that at least can't be the correct answer, it doesn't mean that the first one is a 100% accurate either, but at least given the current knowledge one could say that his version better explain reality than the other ones does. At least until some other person come along and fine tune it. Which is how we expand knowledge, by constantly eliminating wrong ideas that doesn't match current data.
But how would you do that in a religious contexts, when talking about God, if both version uses the same scriptures and potentially can be interpreted both ways, as neither you or the other can eliminate the other version?