On 13 Sep., 23:55, Alan Wostenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > "By what means did the christian faith corner the market on knowing > what > is good for man?". By Christ the Lord, who said some pretty startling > things on the topic, such as "I am the way and the truth and the life. > No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 8:6). > Which is fine of course, Alan, if you are a believing Christian who accepts that Jesus Christ is Lord, in the conventional Christian sense of such a confession. If - like may of us here - you are not, then it begs the question, So what?
I'm reminded of a phrase in a traditional Catholic prayer which, even in my Catholic days, struck me as being a good example of bad circular reasoning: Because You have said it and Your word is true. How do you know that His word is true? Because He said it! That's a real picking- yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps argument. Nowadays, when asked whether I have found the Lord Jesus, I usually reply that I didn't know he was lost ... Francis
