Human beings are created beings endowed with the capacity to also create. Thus, our subjective choices and decisions become creative (or destructive).
So, when do you know something you know? That experience of knowing something is a subjective state arrived at by a fusion of certain internal choices.
Whether the answer is correct or not is something one can only every realize through experiencing "the correct answer". And, at some point, one has to acknowledge that believing in the answer to be correct involves a choice.
How do I know this is true? Well, I experience it as true. If we share the same experience, then we'll agree that it is true. Aka, the answer is correct.
Ultimately, how can we "know" anything? Only by experiencing it.
Experience leads to conviction.
CF: scriptural use of the expression "to know"
E.g. The man runs away because he is a hired servant and is unconcerned for the sheep. I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me, just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father.
The parable of the good shepherd is one of the most relevant truths for navigating these times. The hireling and the thief will not die for the sheep. The Good Shepherd will (and he did).
Human beings are created beings endowed with the capacity to also create. Thus, our subjective choices and decisions become creative (or destructive).
So, when do you know something you know? That experience of knowing something is a subjective state arrived at by a fusion of certain internal choices.
Whether the answer is correct or not is something one can only every realize through experiencing "the correct answer". And, at some point, one has to acknowledge that believing in the answer to be correct involves a choice.
How do I know this is true? Well, I experience it as true. If we share the same experience, then we'll agree that it is true. Aka, the answer is correct.
Ultimately, how can we "know" anything? Only by experiencing it.
Experience leads to conviction.
CF: scriptural use of the expression "to know"
E.g. The man runs away because he is a hired servant and is unconcerned for the sheep. I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me, just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father.
Oh, wait. It was a rhetorical question? Dang.
The parable of the good shepherd is one of the most relevant truths for navigating these times. The hireling and the thief will not die for the sheep. The Good Shepherd will (and he did).