You shouldn’t see and experience exactly the things I do, so we can also learn from each other, but we both should come to know enough about Him (God) to recognize when someone is faking it, telling us things about Him that aren’t true, not because they aren’t stated precisely the same way we say it, but because they go against the things we have learned about Him and from Him, shared through creation and our Day to Day walk with Him.
https://at-the-rainbow.blog/2023/08/27/what-a-quirky-god-we-serve/
In my original posting on Libertarian Theology, I rooted its origins in the Declaration of Independence. But in how I came to see that point, I think the best road map is the map of how I got to the quoted paragraph above.
I started rooted in the medieval theologians. I didn’t know that was what it was, but I was a firm believer in objective truth. God is the Divine Object. But many protested against that, feeling it very cold, and thus relativism slipped into things. Pope John Paul II in his Theology of the Body took that very firmly in hand and turned Relativism into Subjectivism, or more properly, relationship. Pope John Paul II saw God as the Divine Subject, the one we relate to.
Me, the persistent editor, saw the way they both fit together, at least for me.
There is an objective reality. No matter what we think or say, it is what it is, and our wishing and saying does not change it. God, if he exists, is what he is. Many of us make up gods in our own image, but they are not the God of objective reality.
But we know nothing objectively. Everything we know is subjective, relational. So the only way we can know God is Relationally.
Any person you and I both know, we know differently. There may be a lot of similarity, but we each have our unique relationship elements. The same goes for God. Thus everyone will describe God not quite the same as someone else. I breathed easy at this conclusion. I don’t have to police the world, get everyone to say the same catechism, word for word, and if they falter, call them a heretic. We all can say different things and still be right, still be right about God..
And this leads to the conclusion in the quoted paragraph (thanks to C.S. Lewis for showing me this one). We may all describe Him differently, but we should also be able to detect things that AREN’T true that are said about God. There is great liberty is our relationships, but there can also be truth and falsehoods (Beware false prophets).
So is truth objective? Yes. But we discover it relationally , subjectively, through the liberty within which Christ has set us free to pursue the lives of Free Will He has given us, for Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
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