Systematic Political Science

 
 

Theanthropos (Christ Jesus): The Shape of Truth, the Taste of Light, the Currency of Covenant

by
Dallas F. Bell, Jr.

(A dialogue between Gunaikarion Pâthâh of “The Neo-Herodian Inquisitor” and Ekleks Bâchı̂yr, with some explanatory endnotes.)

Pâthâh: I know you are a student of Theanthropos - who is true. Teach us the way of god in truth.

Bâchı̂yr: ‘In the beginning, Word was God who became flesh. The shape of all truth.’ The previous haiku, from John 1 which follows the synoptic gospels, is a basic example of truth underpinned in Romans 1:16, Non enim erubesco Evangelium1 Alethiologically, truth is the information of the descriptive and implied connectedness of an object’s existence, its state, its change, and its relationship with other object’s existence, state, change, and relationship with other objects etc. to infinity. For example, one number can be added to any other number for infinity even beyond a point at which their values cease to represent any correlation to anything knowable to finite intellects. In the infinite space of truth, a truth would have an absolute position, x, among all other truth, y and z etc. in a Gottfried Leibniz sense. It, x, is then communicated between intellects by its understood relation to other truth, as with the value of a specific number to other numbers. Thus, the finite understanding of truth varies in size within infinite truth or absolute truth.

Pâthâh: Debasish Mridha, M.D., says there is no absolute truth and the 1934 Nobel Prize winner, Luigi Pirandello, agrees in his “It Is So (If You Think So).”

Bâchı̂yr: Would any rational person want a relativist, by epistemological necessity, like Mridha to prescribe medicine for them or operate on them? Mridha, a self-appointed philosopher as with many others with his beliefs, also recommends the achievement of happiness by becoming silly. Getting back to the point, we may observe an ‘o’ and an ‘O.’ Some finite intellects may mathematically, and otherwise, reason one zero plus another zero equals two zeros, or one zero is larger than the other zero, or zeros are circular in black font, or zeros are empty, or zeros represent nothing, or nothing plus nothing is zero, or zero is the beginning point of positive numbers and negative numbers, or zero is the center point of x, y, and z planes etc.

Pâthâh: We do understand at different levels. You seem to be addressing the longue durée versus histoire événementielle nature of truth itself.

Bâchı̂yr: Perception is a variable expected in the finite understanding of truth. A five-hundred milliliter glass containing two-hundred and fifty milliliters of ‘h two o’ may be truthfully described as half full while not denying the reality that it can also be truthfully described as half empty. Truth’s infinite nature is it will exist, does exist, and has existed simultaneously. That reality means an infinite and therefore pre-existent intellect has always contained all states of all truth. This Being would allow created finite intellects to comprehend some truth by observation, e.g. light bulbs and vaccination processes, or by revelation, e.g. His existence, which may be tested with other truth.

Pâthâh: I am not sure I agree with where you are going with this. Please give an example.

Bâchı̂yr: Okay. For example in John 1, it is revealed that God is Theos, the Magistrate in verses 1-2 etc., Logos, the Creator Word that became flesh for redemption in verses 1, 14 etc., and Paráklētos/Pneuma, the Spirit power disposition in verses 32-33 etc. All one yet three, i.e. 1 x 1 x 1 = 1. This Elohim is without shape or edges finite intellects use in understanding beginnings and endings. The Logos, the prophesied infinite Messiah Christ, at an appointed time indwelled finite human biology, Jesus. He became Theanthropos, God-man or Christ Jesus, to mercifully redeem mankind from its self, as spoken of by Job in 19:25.

Pâthâh: Absolutists are always bringing up a logos authority. Are you forgetting that in Plato’s “The Theaetetus,” truth is discussed by Socrates, Theaodorus, and Theaetetus? Theaetetus was a mathematician who distinguished square roots commensurable in length from those which are incommensurable, and who divided irrational lines by assigning the medial line to geometry, the binomial to arithmetic, and the apotome to harmony. They debate truth as either nothing but perception, as true judgment, and as a true judgment with an account concluding neither is true. This is consistent with the Protagorean2 saying, 'Man is the measure of all things,' and the foundation of perpetual flux identified by Heracleitus. Gustave Flaubert said it best, ‘There is no truth.’

Bâchı̂yr: Of course, to say ‘there is no truth’ is expected to be a truth, which, as is obvious to everyone, stupidly nullifies the stated premise. Ironically, Flaubert recommended achieving happiness by becoming stupid.

Pâthâh: Bacon said, ‘Man prefers to believe what he wants to be true.’3 As an aside, how do you recommend achieving happiness?

Bâchı̂yr: Its place within truth is found by first defining it. It is a state of contentment or joy, which is rejoicing. To be happy is to be supremely blest. For thousands of years, this has been achieved when God’s ways are known and followed. That wisdom makes one happy. This is what the congress of the thirteen United States of America knew when they unanimously ratified the Declaration of Independence on 4 July, 1876. They wrote, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.’ This truth allowed the U.S. to be a shining light of freedom to a dark world for hundreds of years. On the other hand, to be silly is to be intellectually weak, and being stupid is to be mentally numb lacking in intelligence and reason. If this were true, rocks would be the happiest creations.

Pâthâh: I believe Aristotle said ‘happiness is the end toward which all conscious acts are directed; it is both final and self-sufficient.’

Bâchı̂yr: So it is an absolute.

Pâthâh: Anyway, didn’t Paul Feyerabend recognize Flaubert’s fallacy?

Bâchı̂yr: Feyerabend did acknowledge Flaubert’s logic fallacy but compounded it with more fallacy by stating ‘the only absolute truth is there is not absolute truth.’ This led him to promote the oxymoron philosophy of epistemological anarchism or study structure without structure. A line from George Orwell’s 1945 essay “Notes on Nationalism” is ‘one has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool,’ which is often interpreted as ‘some ideas are so stupid only intellectuals believe them.’

Pâthâh: How is information to be addressed?

Bâchı̂yr: Obviously, there are only two actual alternatives for information. One is factual and the other is contrary to facts or as Gary Kasparov, the youngest world chess champion, calls lying ‘propaganda.’ He is quoted as saying, ‘The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.’ In John 1:14 and 17, Christ Jesus is truth and so the nefarious and failed finite effort is to annihilate infinite Logos Christ Jesus Himself, as with Pontius Pilate in John 18:38 who famously postulated, ‘What is truth?’ Similarly, Hilary Putnam asked, ‘What is mathematical truth?’4

Pâthâh: How do you answer their question on the details of truth?

Bâchı̂yr: A truth set makes a statement of relationships objectively true when it is substituted into an equation, such as 3 substituted for x in x plus 4 equals 7. Likewise, an untrue set makes a statement of relationships objectively false when it substituted into a logic equation. For example, the truth or p from Genesis 3:3, of ‘you will die equals you eat or touch the fruit of the tree in Eden’ is changed into a lie or not p or q from Genesis 3:4, by the untrue set ‘not’ inserted into ‘you will not die equals you eat or touch the fruit of the tree in Eden.’ The truth value is (p) T (not T) F as opposed to (p) F (not T) T. The truth table is (p) T (q) F as opposed to (p) T (q) T and (p) F (q) T and (p) F (q) F.

Pâthâh: Without inflicting more math nonsense on us, answer what possible reason is there to change truth into a lie?

Bâchı̂yr: The motivation behind doomed finite evil efforts to attack infinite Theanthropos, Christ Jesus, is finite pride. This is contrasted by the infinite humble act of Christ coming to earth as eternal immutable veracious light with the intent of sacrificing Jesus’ biology for the sins of man. If a person says they have no sin the Truth is not in them.

Pâthâh: What is learned from that?

Bâchı̂yr: It must be concluded that God is love. The keystone to the awareness of intellect is how it relates to other things and especially other intellects. The height of rational empathy for other intellects is actively seeking what is best and good for them.

Pâthâh: Are you saying a god would want what is good for me?

Bâchı̂yr: Yes. God’s loving relationship with finite intellect involves infinite justice for the inevitable failure of finite man to relate to infinite God--sin.

Pâthâh: I didn’t think you were to be judgmental.

Bâchı̂yr: Divine justice is a honest attempt at genuine fairness. In that endeavor, a faithful trustworthy ataraxia atmosphere is developed that fosters healing peace.

Pâthâh: Where is the peace in some unattainable justice?

Bâchı̂yr: God’s infinite knowledge upon creating man included merciful redemptive grace for just penalties for sin.

Pâthâh: Based on what?

Bâchı̂yr: Thanks for saying, ‘based on,’ which indicates the reality that truth is connected to an unchanging core. The holy, perfectly powerfully complete, exclusive employment of infinite aspects is wisdom. That harmonious symmetry is immediately recognized, even by finite elect intellect with eyes to see and ears to hear, as beautiful.

Pâthâh: I do not see.

Bâchı̂yr: The virtuous attributes of humility, eternity, immutability, veracious, light, love, empathy, good, justice, penalizes, honesty, fairness, faithfulness, trustworthiness, healing, peace, mercy, redemptive, grace, holiness, powerful, exclusivity, wisdom, harmony, symmetry, recognition, beauty etc. of Theanthropos, Christ Jesus, gives infinite truth a geometric shape of connections for finite human comprehension and application. An application is justice, which requires merit based societal accolades without which individual humility, integrity, honor, and respect etc. are irrelevant. In that case, calling one silly and stupid would be considered to be a compliment. Indifference to brave Medal of Honor winners or support of all people equally receiving a Medal of Honor would be expected. It would be unjust to replace the merited speed of light, in the equation e equals mc², with measurably slower things, e.g. the speed of sound etc., for the irrational purpose of reaching the untrue equality of all things.5 Equality of all numbers would result in no numbers, equality of all letters would prevent creating words to communicate, and equality of musical tones would result in no music. Survival of finite biological life depends on finite distinguishing between things, such as food from non-food etc. It would be fatally silly and stupid to not prefer consuming sodium chloride, NaCl, salt instead of potassium cyanide, KCN, salt or breathing nitrogen oxygen air instead of hydrogen cyanide gas. Only the infinite Being has the omniscience to determine eternal equality. Jesus revealed in Matthew 20:1-16 that workers with different contributions may justly receive equal pay and to disagree is evil. David taught in Psalms 40:4 that liars and the proud are not to be respected. Solomon wrote humility comes before honor, which comes from wisdom. Respect comes from honor and integrity, which comes from humility, which is from wise justice.

Pâthâh: Seems to be quasi-realist and subjective. Konrad Lorenz’s, 1973 Nobel Prize winner for physiology or medicine, book “Behind the Mirror: A Search for a Natural History of Human Knowledge” indicated evolutionary biology shows that man’s natural senses teach the truth or else extinction would have occurred a long time earlier.

Bâchı̂yr: The anti-Semitic Nazi party member, Lorenz was an ethologist, or animal behaviorist originally called Zeitschift für Tierpsychologie, who found that the domestication of animals led to the overpowering increase in their desire to eat and copulate. He reasoned that this was analogous to human civilization and argued, in two papers, that those dysgenic effects scientifically justified Nazi eugenics policies.6 Even Richard Dawkins had to point out Lorenz’s emphasis of evolutionary group selection over individual selection contravened their orthodox Darwinian beliefs.7 Yes, nature itself teaches parents, elders, and widows should be honored and that there is no honor among lying murderous thieves. Nature theologically teaches, among other things, the truth that God is infinite, monotheistic, just, loving, gracious, and redemptive. The Bible’s revealed YaHWeH is the only text that is consistent with all of those truths, T or in binary terms 1 as opposed to F or 0. It goes into more depth revealing YaHWeH as Elohim; Theos, Logos, and Paráklētos. Furthermore, Logos/Christ needed to come to earth as the biological Jesus, Theanthropos, to be the only perfect redemptive sacrifice. Jesus’ biology was, of course, not infinite but was sinless in that only He, as Christ, was always just, loving, gracious, and redemptive. This made Christ Jesus the eternal King over man and physical law, as demonstrated by His raising the dead etc. Objectively, the application of human comprehension of truth can be pomologically, Latin for fruit and study, compared to Christ Jesus. A summary of the attributes listed thus far, which He exhibited, leads to freedom of others from the slavery of sin and efficiency in all endeavors. Conversely, the fruit of the prideful rejection of truth leads to behavioral unsymmetrical chaos and destruction—the phantom shape of satanic lies.

Pâthâh: Aren’t we a little old to still believe in the bogeyman?

Bâchı̂yr: Nature tells us that to hate truth is to love death and the suicidal depravity of man is enhanced by a finite but superior being revealed truth calls Satan.

Pâthâh: For example?

Bâchı̂yr: Truth can be resisted but its consequences can not. Under the influence of a dark shadow, U.S. television advertising, today, no longer features symmetrical spokespersons for their efficient products. One advertiser has two obese teenagers picking candy off each other’s face and eating it to promote the selling of a candy brand. Others have disheveled people eating, talking with food falling out of their mouths, and licking their germ riddled fingers to promote their food products. A corporation that produces women’s makeup has a man dressed as a woman representing them. Another company caters to men that wears women’s clothes. A pet supplies commercial has two women with crew cuts engaged in a homosexual embrace while an oat meal commercial has two effeminate men in a homosexual embrace. Commercials by dog food companies have been touting the unnatural use of grains and corn to lessen the natural meat diet, which is now acknowledged by honest veterinarians to cause unnecessary dog allergy sickness. The supplementing of dog diets with unnatural alkaline additives is raising the pH beyond their natural acidic diet of animal protein, which is causing more sickness, such as crystals causing blood in urine found in cytology testing etc. Advertising executives, expert propagandists in the Kasparov sense, want to increase the sells rate for their client’s products and services. They know the weak state of their silly and stupid, as Mridha and Flaubert etc. described, targeted demographics’ critical thinking ability. Their audience hates the intelligent symmetry of God’s truth and are catering to them, just as Hollywood cinema propagandists have been doing for decades. Individual and societal potential is dependent on individual problem-solving efficiency of truth and having a rational temperament toward truth.8 In 2020, U.S. baby boomers are beginning to join mass numbers of Millennials and younger groups in their investment preference for Ponzi scheme fantasy crypto-currencies, i.e. bitcoin etc., over highly manipulated yet historically secure tangible gold and other investment metals. They also prefer easily manipulated mobile banking to historically secure tangible face-to-face exchanges of a more cashless society prophesied in Revelation 13:17. Intentional destruction of critical thinking irrationally lowers innate IQ and engages an emotional fight or flight response when exposed to truth, which challenges the reality of untrue beliefs. ‘A den of liars. They proclaim their religion, in the spotlight’s glare.’

Pâthâh: I mean a more historical example, without poetry this time.

Bâchı̂yr: In 16.11.4, Josephus quoted a fearless young man who echoed the sentiment of his repressive time, ‘…truth has perished, and justice taken away from men, while lies and ill will prevailed, and brought such a mist before public affairs, that the offenders were not able to see the greatest mischiefs that can befall men.’

Pâthâh: He was talking about government, wasn’t he? Einstein said, ‘All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.’ Since the end of all politics is human good, why would any government actually lie?

Bâchı̂yr: Critical thinking allows for finite systematic evaluation,9 especially of good. Genesis 1:1-4 may be used as an example of infinite good. Begin with baseline data, ‘In the beginning Elohim created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was unformed, and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep.’ Next, the evaluated activity consists of ‘And the Spirit moved on the face of the waters. And Elohim said, Let there be light. And there was light.’ Evaluation is then conducted of the activity by omniscient God for the eternal standard for good ‘And Elohim saw the light, that it was good.’ Lastly, further connected activity continues with ‘And Elohim divided the light from the darkness…’ Natural logic tells us finite man’s idea of good and subsequent evaluation of his activities must be informed by and ultimately judged by omniscient God. Understanding the pursuit of good, Augustine indicated ‘the highest good is discerned and held in truth.’10 NASA, National Aeronautical and Space Administration, is Hebrew for lifting up derived from the archaic verb nasah, meaning to mentally delude and to morally seduce. In 2012 a group of forty-nine former astronauts, and merited NASA scientists sent a letter to the unmerited NASA administrator Charles Bolden, Jr., berating the agency for making untrue claims about the role of carbon dioxide in global warming, Business Insider reported. ‘We believe the claims by NASA and GISS, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, that man-made carbon dioxide is having a catastrophic impact on global climate change are not substantiated, especially when considering thousands of years of empirical data,’ the group wrote. Governments, like all human institutions, act in their own self-interest regardless of how it effects the good of others. This is why, in 1986, NASA lied about the safety of the Space Shuttle, which exploded after launch killing its passengers.

Pâthâh: That’s not very ethical. Shakespeare’s quote in Macbeth is ‘We still have judgment here, that we but teach - Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return - To plague th’inventor.’11

Bâchı̂yr: The role of ethics is to set standards of right conduct. Paul wrote in Romans 2:14-15 that Divine law is written in the hearts of man with their conscience bearing witness. Gene editing is being conducted by researchers for the expressed good of human flourishing. The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, CRISPR, is the latest gene editing technology. William Hurlbut, M.D. and neurobiologist at the Stanford University Medical Center, astrobiology at NASA and Chemical, Biological Warfare Working group at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and a senior fellow at The Trinity Forum, and others work to insure Divine good is the true goal. On the other hand, Antonio Rangel, Caltech Bing Professor of neuroscience, behavioral biology and economics, is spearheading a worldwide effort, including Princeton University, Oxford University, Harvard University, University of Zurich etc., of measuring eye-tracking, using fMRI, EEG, TMS etc., in changes to framing effects of gain or loss for manipulating individual decision making options in rational choice theory. Their attentional drift-diffusion models, aDDM, structurally allow for frame and option-dependent parameters to precisely study the underlying mechanisms of the framing effect. The aDDM results indicate that, in addition to the direct effects of framing-induced changes in attention on choice, the sure option in the gain frame also causes an increase in the attentional discount of the gamble and an increased concavity of utility.12

Pâthâh: With science, we can get into the cliodynamic deep grass before we know it. Generally, aren’t you just supposed to turn the other cheek to everything anyway?

Bâchı̂yr: Everything that exalts itself against the knowledge of God is to be cast down, II Cor. 10:5 teaches. David was a man after God’s own heart13 and he said in Psalms 75:10 and 101:8 he would early destroy the wicked of the land. This is how one knows they are people after God’s own heart and are to be righteously used for God’s justice. Recognizing the intensifying physical clash between those that rationally love truth and the reprobate minds that hate it, biblical doctrine is often skewed toward defeatist pacifism, contrary to the theological leader of the Great Awakening Jonathan Edwards.14 This means believers in truth are taught to abstain from resisting violent behavior, especially from their government. If this were true the U.S. could never have existed, war against Hitler and other evil governments would have been wrong, the innocent could never be defended, and there could be no excuse for self-defense. Historically, as well as scripturally, this has been proven to be a false belief. Unfortunately, many innocent people will die needless and cruel deaths because of this and other untruths. Idolaters commonly use the Jezebel strategy to destroy their enemies. They recruit allies to falsely charge the person they have isolated with blasphemy to gain public support. Then they can murder the object of their scorn.15

Pâthâh: You admit alternatives to your truth has structure. What advantages does your so-called truth have?

Bâchı̂yr: The bulwark of truth programs the brain. Remembering truth sustains and correctly directs behavior in a crisis—if you sow truth you will reap truth. Problem solving joy, and even Divine happiness, from efficient rational stability can be achieved in the middle of horrific experiences, like a consoling song remembered in the night as mentioned in Psalm 77.

Pâthâh: When a crisis comes I may change my mind, like a wall follower using a left-handed maze solving algorithm.16

Bâchı̂yr: Not all mazes are simply connected. The breath of knowable truth, revealed by omniscient Elohim, provides an overlooking view of life’s maze of solving algorithms, such as dead-end filling or shortest path algorithms. It is too late to attain truth when a complex crisis has come. Chaos from the absence of truth becomes magnified—if you sow chaos you will reap chaos. Wisdom will laugh and mock the calamity when the fear comes as a desolation. It may be called on and sought early, but it will not be found. When the rains fall and the flood waters rise, the ark door will have been shut. Hatred of knowledge and reproof means having to eat the rotten fruit of one’s own devices as foreseen in Proverbs 1.

Pâthâh: Rotten fruit…

Bâchı̂yr: As we can see by the alternative to truth’s efficient beauty, untruth is ugly and dangerous rebellion against God. This state can be overcome with the accepting of God’s Truth, as the haiku, from John 14:6, indicates. ‘Except through His Son, no one comes to the Father. The truth of Jesus.’ John 1:7-9 says, ‘He is the Light.’ To taste the Lord is to taste the sweet Light as Psalms 34:8, 119:103, and I Peter 2:3 describe. The taste of Light is the shape of Truth. If you love your elect brother you abide in the light and not darkness.17 This is experiencing the Shekinah Glory, Kvod Adonai,18 Doxa Kurion.19

Pâthâh: We have circled back to where we started. Let’s show the audience some mercy, as you say, and end this charade with your closing comments?

Bâchı̂yr: All truth is statically connected and may seem geometrically circular, as you just observed, when explained by finite minds. When finite minds naturally chart time within infinity, graphing truth from truth ‘a’ to truth ‘b’ etc. may seem linear and graphing truth ‘b’ to truth ‘a’ may seem circular. But this is just finite cognitive awareness or cognitive usage of data. That process may accelerate or not, which is an illusion of the eternal state of truth reality. The idea projection of truth sets may be analyzed and the guidance system of human minds may even attempt to miniaturize them mathematically etc.20 Aquinas noted that ‘Eternity is absent nothing.’21

Pâthâh: Yea, yea.

Bâchı̂yr: Romans 13:12 says, ‘the night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.’ The biggest truth equation for man is John 3:16 which reveals ‘God so loved the world,’ equals, ‘that He gave His only Son,’ plus, ‘so any one that believes on Him,’ plus, ‘can be saved,’ plus, ‘and never perish!’ Each of those truths may be deemed linear if the finite context ended there or another truth is joined. But if the closing truth, e.g. ‘and never perish,’ is rejoined by the beginning truth, ‘God so loved the world,’ it may be considered circular. Jesus used Scripture, John 5:46-47, to prove His scriptural Messianic truth. That absolute truth was not invalid eternal circular reasoning. Contrary to human wisdom, Jesus did not use logical fallacy in proving something eternal, immutable Scripture, with the something eternal used to prove it, immutable Scripture. When God makes a promise He can swear by no greater than Himself.22 Holy complete Scriptures are old and new dispensation covenants or legal wills and testaments, Hebrew beriyth23 and Greek diathéké,24 by holy God with His elect. In essence, non-belief in sola scriptura is to call Christ Jesus a liar. He is the currency of Covenant…25

Pâthâh: In closing, it should be noted that the shape of your truth is not the shape of my truth. Aprés-truth, ‘Il n’y a pas de hors-texte.’26

Bâchı̂yr: Which, of course, is meant to be a truth.

Pâthâh: So you say…


1 The complete KJV text of Paul’s writing in Rom. 1:16 is ‘For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.’ Paul wrote the gospel is known according to scripture (1 Cor. 15:3-4). The Latin excerpt of Rom. 1:16 was taken from the Nova Vulgata version. This is the Catholic source for scripture. Their stated belief is that God’s scripture is more errant than they themselves are. They also state that God’s scripture is a moral guide, which obviously must be less moral than they consider themselves. In other words, their actual belief of the verse must be ‘they are ashamed of the errant gospel of Christ because it cannot be the power of salvation to everyone that believes to the Jew first and also to the Greek.’ Thanks is extended to Benjamin Merkle, professor of New Testament at the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and Greek editor of the Southeastern Theological Review, for the email exchange with Dallas F. Bell Jr. on this subject in January, 2021. A comparative analysis between the KJV New Testament and the Nova Vulgata for accuracy with the original Greek may be made. In a January, 2021, email exchange between Dallas F. Bell Jr. and Danny Law, linguistics professor at the University of Texas (Austin), Law suggests “…there are a fair number of original Greek texts, which differ from each other in minor (or major, depending on your perspective) ways. There are editions of the Greek New Testament that compare the various known versions of the Greek New Testament, others that use one or the other, and yet others that merge different versions…first establish which versions of the Greek New Testament each translation was based upon (I believe both translations used a variety of different manuscripts, but this is not my area of expertise) before you could weigh the relative fidelity of those translations to their respective sources.” (Note: a forthcoming project is scheduled to thoroughly address this topic.)

2 Protagoras seems to have written a work, now lost, called “The Truth.”

3 Bacon, Francis (2000). “The New Organon.” Cambridge University Press. p. 44.

4 Putnam, Hilary (1975). ‘What is Mathematical Truth?’ Philosophical Papers (vol. 1) Mathematics, Matter and Method. Cambridge University Press. p. 73. Putnam maintained that mathematical knowledge is not absolute. His focus is on the sometimes faulty human language of math rather than the reality of absolute math itself. A copy (Historia Mathematica (vol. 2, issue 4), November 1975, pp. 529-533) is at

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0315086075901160

5 See attributed quotes on the subject by linguist and essentialist philosopher, Luce Irigaray, a feminist postmodernist/relativist (see endnote 26). The two 2020 anti-truth books by socialist Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel’s “The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?” and leftist-essayist Fredrik deBoer’s “The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice” attack the idea of merit. University of Chicago philosophy professor, Agnes Callard says their books contend that ‘Any system that predicates economic and social status on academic performance is intrinsically bad.’ She illogically adds ‘People rarely, if ever, deserve to fail, but people typically deserve their successes…[we do not] have to give up on meritocratic rewards in order to free ourselves from the scourge of meritocratic punishment.’ The same self-appointed academic gate keepers that enforced the meritocratic rules for their self-serving reasons will also be in charge of enforcing an unmeritocratic alternative system for their self-serving reasons.

6 Klopfer, Peter (1994). "Konrad Lorenz and the National Socialists: On the Politics of Ethology." International Journal of Comparative Psychology. 7 (4): 202–208.

7 Dawkins, Richard (1976). “The Selfish Gene” (1st Ed.). Oxford University Press. pp. 9, 72.

8 It is common to see U.S. television advertisers using individuals from the demographic of the objectively measurable moron classification of innate problem-solving (50-70 IQ) lecture individuals from the average demographics (90-110 IQ) and the superior demographics (110-120) on computer usage, financial investing, insurance purchasing, chess strategy, medical care etc. (See entry for intelligence quotient, “Dictionary of Psychology,” J.P. Chaplin, 1982, Dell Publishing, New York, eight printing of revised edition, p. 264.) Sober individuals that choose to call the police or fight with competent fast food servers, because their order took longer than a minute, demonstrate they do not have either the IQ or temperament for potentially making positive contributions to a complex society(ies). That example is magnified when they perceive they are faced with more serious matters and when they perceive they can achieve their animalistic desires without scrutiny. Incapable of comprehending such things as iambic pentameter (the meter that most closely resembles natural intelligent human speech in English) they will be a substantial resource drain on societal efficiency. Early in the societal formation, it will take one efficient person to pay for one non-efficient person, on average during an average lifespan, and in the last stages of society it will take five efficient people to pay for the food, clothes, transportation, health care, court costs, incarceration costs etc. Police, educational resources etc. will be irrationally directed away from those that could benefit and misdirected toward those that will never benefit. Efforts to create artificial economic or educational equality between those non-efficient and the efficient will fail, since it is based on untruth and untruth is a doomed prideful attack on Christ Jesus. The perfect Creator of all people, Elohim, made everyone with the innate ability to reach their Divine destiny, which should not nor can not be altered. The poor will always exist, Matt. 26:11, but the righteous will not be forsaken by God, Ps. 37:25. The righteous beggar Lazarus received his great reward in heaven, while the unrighteous rich man received his eternal reward in hell, Luke 16:19-31.

9 Szklo, Moyses, Celentano, David (2019). “Gordis: Epidemiology” (6th Ed.). Elsevier. pp. 333-334.

10 Taken from Augustine’s discussion with the Enquirer in “On the Free Choice of Will.”

11 http://shakespeare.mit.edu/macbeth/macbeth.1.7.html

12 In an email exchange with Dallas F. Bell Jr. during November, 2020, Rangel explains that he does on occasion schedule talks on ethical judgment and decision making at events.

13 I Sam. 13:14; Acts 13:22.

14 Edwards’ doctrine has been credited by many as being the blueprint for justifying the American Revolution.

15 I Kings 21:8-14; Matt. 26:59-68; Mark 14:55-65. This is the publically expressed strategy of the U.S. Democrat Party leadership, as laid out in Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals,” which was dedicated to Satan. The satanic rules are as follows. ‘Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have. Never go outside the expertise of your people. Whenever possible go outside the expertise of the enemy. Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules. Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage. A good tactic is one your people enjoy. A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag. Keep the pressure on. The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself. The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside; this is based on the principle that every positive has its negative. The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.’

16 In an email exchange during December, 2020, between Dallas F. Bell Jr. and Simon Blackburn, philosophy professor at Cambridge University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Blackburn said ‘Maze algorithms are designed to deal with a fixed kind of problem, with one definite mathematically definable solution. The trouble is that many moral problems are not like this. They involved weighing alternatives and estimating trade-offs. Competent people can disagree about how that is to be done. Economics is the nearest that practical decision making gets to mathematical elaboration — and just look at its poor track record, the endemic disagreements, and the state it is in.’  In his 2005 book, “Truth: A Guide,” published by the Oxford University Press, Blackburn makes clear his atheist beliefs.

17 I John 2:9-11.

18 Hebrew for the glory of Jehovah (owner God).

19 Greek for the glory of the Lord.

20 For theory of miniaturization, see Angel Rios’ et al. chemistry 2009 book “Miniaturization of Analytical Systems.”

21 Taken from Aquinas’ ‘Summa Theologica’ regarding nunc fluens (now [time] flowing).

22 Gen. 22:16-17; Luke 1:73; Heb. 6:13.

23 Gen. 6:18.

24 Matt. 26:28.

25 Is. 42:6; I Cor. 11:25; Heb.13:20.

26 The quote by Jacques Derrida is a common postmodernist belief that ‘There is nothing outside text.’ Relativist postmodernists raison d'être is to attack the reality of absolutes see Alan Sokal, math and physics’ professor, and Jean Bricmont’s, theoretical physics’ professor, (1998) book “Fashionable nonsense: postmodern intellectuals' abuse of science” (New York: Picador).

https://physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/tls.html

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