The Xenopolis Confederation wrote:Locus Praemonstratus wrote:Every Catholic must assent to the teachings of the Catholic Church. Reason is not necessarily trustworthy and you haven’t justified that statement.
God said it was bad and that does make it bad, which was the point.
Reason is the least trustworthy metric there is, aside from every other metric. Have I not justified that you can't have reason and absolute faith? If you use absolute faith to determine your position on everything, than you can't use reason to determine your position. You may use it to support your position, but not to detrrmine it, because it has already been determined by faith.
Um no. The truth exists independent of God, even if he is real.
I disagree, trust in God is the most trustworthy thing to possess, i.e. Faith. Your underlying assumption is that reason and faith are contradictory or mutually exclusive, that to be reasonable you must forego faith, and to be pious you must forego reason. Human reason is fallen, as a consequence of the Fall, though not entirely corrupt of course because we may ascertain truthes by reason, and so human knowledge solely devoted to reason is defective, incomplete.
Truth is contingent on God, there is no Truth without God, and further God is Truth.