When Kant says, “But to agree to a perpetual religious
constitution which is not publicly questioned by anyone would be, as it were,
to annihilate a period of time in the progress of man's improvement. This must
be absolutely forbidden,” he reminds me of something St. Augustine said about
the interpretation of Scripture. Augustine says, "In matters that are so
obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can
be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have
received. In such cases, we should not rush in headlong and so firmly take our
stand on one side that, if further progress in the search of truth justly
undermines this position, we too fall with it.” These statements remind me how
much the Christian faith has evolved over the years and how my personal faith
should evolve. I should not always push the questions away, but perhaps embrace
them and learn from them. I should not always accept what others say or believe
as the correct way, but study and test those things for myself.
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