Thursday, April 24, 2014

Owen Anderson on Attributing good to evil, and God to Creation

Some dialogue from Owen Anderson:

Earnest: so your explanation about knowing and showing begins with the assumption that nothing informative is certain.

Bill:  yes I take that to be obvious.

Earnest: that nothing is certain includes nothing is certain about God and about good and evil?

Bill: obviously.

Earnest: would you say that there is a clear distinction between God and what is created, and a clear distinction between good and evil?

Bill: I think so.

Earnest: so isn't what you are calling suppressing really just instances of persons attributing the attributes of God to the creation, or the attributes of good to evil?

Bill: perhaps.

Earnest: then isn't the issue whether we have correctly identified these distinctions, and not whether we have immediate deliverances about them?  After all, everyone has immediate deliverances that require further examination.