certainty – Drew Downs

On the Conventional Desire for Certainty

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Some treat certainty as a pre-condition for belief, rather than something that comes through the process of coming to believe.

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What we understand as up and down is relative to our location. Locations that, themselves, are relative to each other—it is all relative.

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We want the rules of grammar to be fixed. They are not. Like everything in life, our desire for certainty is compromised by life itself.

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People always want to know what the right thing to do is. Because we feel lost. And we aren’t sure what to do.

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Jesus’s talk about The Way is a conflicting experience for modern Christians. Because the concept confuses us.

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There is a reason we often struggle to know what the right thing to do is in a situation. We don’t like the pain of it.