After all, the Sacred Scriptures spent a thousand years in the hands of the Vatican (half of that if you count the Eastern Orthodox churches) . How do we know that the cabal didn't alter, add or supress anything important on them in all those years, that's also not counting the other supposedly reformed editions that were made by people with ties to Freemasonry and the City of London ?
I might also be in dire need of some time out of the news and the digging. Feel free to call me out if that's the case.
Well, establishing the reliability of the New Testament is pretty profound in that we can be sure that the Bible we have in our hands today is, indeed, what the original authors wrote down. We can argue about whether what they wrote down is true or not, but we can't say that the Bible has been changed so much that it's impossible to determine what it originally said.
The only way you can observe that the word "God" means something different to you than it does to me proves that words can be understood properly, otherwise you wouldn't be able to conclude that our meanings are different!
Just because people disagree on definitions does not mean communication is impossible.
"Just because people disagree on definitions does not mean communication is impossible."
The definition of God not a table cloth.
You really need to take a heroic dose of LSD and then try and describe the experience to me, maybe then the concept that words are a crap form of communication would have more weight.
Why don't the Zen masters just tell you what the meaning of life is?
Communicating by words is like Neaderthal's monosyllabic grunts in the universal scheme of communications.
We are fucking peasant/prisoners on a backward shithole and don't know the first thing about how to deport ourselves in this universe.
In reality vast conceptual edifices can be instantly grokked without a word said and no translation issues. This is how God would talk to you.