freeborn | ελεύθερος on Nostr: If one assumes that we *cannot* know the truth, then I can see how the above might ...

If one assumes that we *cannot* know the truth, then I can see how the above might come across as hubris (which is a rather ironic choice of words).

But I woud respond, the assumption that we cannot know is itself an exclusive claim to absolute truth. How do you know with such absolute certainty that there is no God, or that if there was he *couldn't* communicate clearly with his own creatures? Have you lived long enough and traveled far enough to inspect every inch of what exists such that you can make an absolute proclamation about what is (or is not)? Of course not--you are finite.

The truth is that he is, and he has, so we can know. To receive this knowledge is actually humility: it was given and we accept it as such. We then actually "know our place" accurately, and occupy it humbly and with gratitude (and that is the opposite of hubris).

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