“To err is human” – many people (of faith) are hardly aware how much they lean towards this human quality when they understand themselves as lifelong spiritual seekers on a path. Among Quakers, the idea of the “absolute perhaps” became established. It is expression for continuous divine revelation and the consequence thereof that we, as humans, can never exactly or definitely know, where truth lies – since God will eventually reveal us more. As it happened for millennia since biblical times.
Continuous revelation as a theological principle is being used today too often as justification for self-indulgent arbitrariness. Continue reading “To err is human”