[lit-ideas] Re: Inner Moral :Law
- From: John McCreery <mccreery@xxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 14:57:49 +0900
On 2005/08/04, at 14:22, Eric Yost wrote:
EY: I still don't see how even a priggish ex-Gnostic can generalize
from the rascality of youth to the fallen nature of humans.
Is it, perhaps, a bit dubious to see the ex-Gnostic as generalizing
from one to the other as if the theologian were a scientist arguing
from empirical data to a scientific principle? Isn't it more likely
that, having read the story of Adam's fall, the Biblical narrative on
which the doctrine of original sin is based, he remembered his
youthful rascality and took it as a confirmation of what he felt to
be true? A commonsensical inference unfettered by the demands of
scientific method for multiple hypotheses and unbiased data collection
―a method that wouldn't be articulated for a thousand years or so?
John McCreery------------------------------------------------------------------
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