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Old 04-14-2006, 01:08 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by Lalaith
There may well be an infallible, perfect Truth, but surely, given the imperfect and fallible nature of humanity, all versions of this truth, whether oral or literary, will have been filtered through human perception and will thus be dim, shattered, debased, diffused etc?

Suppose so - things are a certain way. All opinions are not true. Even if we didn't know what shape the earth was, we'd know for certain it was one specific shape. I think the point LMP was making was that the 'specific shape' of Truth is the Biblical one & that that one was not 'dim, shattered, debased, diffused etc' - only the 'variations' of it - indeed we could only speak of myths & legends being 'corrupt' version of something else if we believe that that 'something else' is uncorrupt.
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