I started reading "Let the Reader Understand" - A guide to interpreting and applying the Bible
by Dan McCartney and Charles Clayton. In the introduction of this book I came across this profound statement, at least I think it is -
"If humans claim to be the ones who ultimately decide what is true, they are claiming to be able to make an absolute judgement. But to make an absolute judgement, man will.....have to seek to make a system for himself that will relate all the facts of his environment to one another in such a a way as well enable him to see exhaustively all the relations that obtain between them. In other words, the system that the non-Christian has to seek on his assumption is one in which he himself virtually occupies the place that God occupies in Christian theology. Man must, in short, be virtually omniscient."
This is hugely relevant in the American culture and society. I have had numerous conversations when the topic of truth comes up. The society as a whole rests on the whole idea of truth being individualistic. Each person is entitles to define his own truth. But if that is the reality then what people are saying is that they are omniscient as God is. Do people really believe that? Or do they really know what they believe?
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