Hi On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Dave Myers wrote: > Your student might want to reflect on a couple other biblical texts that > support the sort of skeptical scrutiny that you're about. Consider, for > example, the empiricism of Moses (Deuteronomy 18:22, Today's English > Version): “If a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord and what he says does > not come true, then it is not the Lord’s message.” Ergo, put it . . . whatever > . . . to the test. > > And about the idea that certain humans possess a quasi omniscence (reading > minds, seeing the future), omnipresence (out of body travel and remote > viewing), or omnipotence (moving or influencing objects with their mental > powers) consider the biblical skepticism: "I am God, and there is none like > me" > (Isaiah 46:9). Humans, in this view, have dignity but not deity. Although tempting, this strikes me as an inappropriate idea. One cannot use the Bible to support one's own position and then try to educate students about the inappropriateness of them basing their own beliefs on the Bible. By using the Bible as "evidence" for skepticism, one is granting the Bible a legitimacy as a source of knowledge that then undermines the idea that there are better foundations for beliefs about the world. Best wishes Jim ============================================================================ James M. Clark (204) 786-9757 Department of Psychology (204) 774-4134 Fax University of Winnipeg 4L05D Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 2E9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] CANADA http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/~clark ============================================================================
