The other week I linked to an article over on Cognitive Discopants about his experiences of realising that conservative evangelical Christian theology (and people) 'bubble' doesn't actually hold all the (correct and helpful) answers when it comes to meshing the Bible, history and science.
The author has followed their first post up with a couple of additional posts about how to look beyond that bubble and/or recognise you might be in it.
Tips On Not Getting Duped Again - Part 1
Tips On Not Getting Duped Again - Part 2
Some very good stuff here and his journey mirrors my own over the last decade so I'm very happy to endorse what the author is saying here. Plus it also saves me writing something similar myself. :-)
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“[C]onservative evangelical Christian theology (and people) 'bubble' doesn't actually hold all the (correct and helpful) answers when it comes to meshing the Bible, history and science.”
You must be thinking of Catholicism :p
Or both. :-)
From the Catechism:
40 Since our knowledge of God is limited, our language about him is equally so. We can name God only by taking creatures as our starting point, and in accordance with our limited human ways of knowing and thinking.
42 God transcends all creatures. We must therefore continually purify our language of everything in it that is limited, imagebound or imperfect, if we are not to confuse our image of God --"the inexpressible, the incomprehensible, the invisible, the ungraspable"-- with our human representations. Our human words always fall short of the mystery of God.
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles
"[C]oncerning God, we cannot grasp what he is, but only what he is not, and how other beings stand in relation to him."
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