On 24 Mar 2008 at 3:53, Brent Poirier Attorney wrote:
> There are passages in the writings of the Guardian where he explained
> that what he meant by the relativity of religious truth, is that
> revealed truth is relative to the age in which it is revealed. That
> is, the Guardian used this phrase as a synonym for "Progressive
> Revelation".
This is true, but I would rather say that the *logical implication*
of progressive revelation is that religious truth must be relative.
The Guardian is drawing a logical conclusion, rather than simply
using a synonym.
Having established that religious truth is relative, that conclusion
has more applications: truths are relative to one another for example
(when the paradigm changes, it is a switch from one coherent system
of truths to another, not just a matter of this or that religious
truth changing.
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