Late One Night...

One night I was kept away from sleep for some unknown reason. As per usual, I started to think about things that never seem to quite make sense unless I am half asleep.

I thought about the relationship between faith and science, relative truth and ultimate truth. I then started to write a bunch of stuff down, not really noticing much of a connection between the many concepts or ideas that I wrote. They go as follows, and please excuse me if they don't make any sense, because they don't make complete sense to me, and I certainly have not brought all of these ideas together wholeistically.

STATEMENT 1:

Reason: "The basis or motive for an action, decision, or conviction." (dictionary.com)

"Faith is our reasoning before logic, logic is our reasoning before truth, and truth is the end result of proper reasoning. Then the conclusive truth that is reached must become reason itself."

STATEMENT 2:

The def. of subjectivity is - Proceeding from or taking place in a person's mind rather than the external world. (dictionary.com)

Therefore...

"Truth must start with subjectivity but continue on and be tested with proper reasoning, or else ultimate truth will never be realized. For if we do not properly study the truths that surround us we will not come to a factual conclusion regarding our assumption of ultimate truth. This assumption of ultimate truth must be made before one can wholeistically think theologically or philosophically. Whether the assumed UT is correct or not is unimportant. As long as one comes to the true conclusion regarding their assumption."

- We all make assumptions, all the time. When we see how a stranger that passes us on the street is dressed, we assume something about him. When we take a course in university, we may have no idea what it is about, or maybe we think we know exactly what it is about, either way we assume that the course will be layed out and taught a certian way. In EVERYTHING we do we make assumptions...I guess we are all asses! :P