(November 27, 2023 at 9:43 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: "You guys spoke about truth seeming to be ever improving, but then would that mean that Islam is a superior truth to Christianity?"
Why should it? If we were chained to an inflexible linear progression Islam would be a retrograde movement. I.e., we should be gradually outgrowing superstitions, not creating a new set myths.
True. I agree with you.
But it is what was hinted at previously:
(November 25, 2023 at 2:38 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote:(November 25, 2023 at 11:38 am)SimpleCaveman Wrote: I suppose “far” in the sense of uncovering Truths. No, I don’t think there is necessarily an “arrow of progress” in uncovering Truth. People often make falsehoods from truth or despite truth.You may not believe that an arrow of progress is necessary (or necessarily exists), but it would seem to be the case that you believe it does exist if..say, contemporary christians have it "truer" than pagan greeks, who had it "truer" than animist cave dwellers. That's time and truth (seemingly) flowing in tandem.
I mean, I think it's not a bad supposition. We do seem to have gotten to know things alot better over time, why not gods? OFC, as a believer, you're unlikely to be firmly in the camp of having gotten to know gods better...as superstition. Then again, proposing that god-knowledge is rational and even progressable is to place any given god-fact or god-assertion in the perilous position of being proven demonstrably untrue or worse...regressive-even-if-true. Which, I think, is brave.
