Quote Originally Posted by Michael Joseph View Post
I asked you to identify me absent trusting in another. If you take the Word of Mom and Dad, then you TRUST they are not lying. How is this any way proof of my identity? What?, men and women don't lie? I bet I can drag in two to Claim they are my Mom and Dad will you believe them? How does their witness identify me?
However, your response goes to societal trust - two or more witnesses. Will these be required to take an oath before the Ever Living - at Beersheba - the Well of Oaths? What if these are atheists?
Furthermore, will Mom and Dad show up every day to give their testimony of my Identity?
I just caught David's response regarding Photo. Photo will not get it. I can change every aspect of my appearance. How will you know it me tomorrow?
Please attempt to focus and stay on topic. The topic is Identity. Clearly a Name is not identity.
I asked you to identify me absent trusting in another. If you take the Word of Mom and Dad, then you TRUST they are not lying. How is this any way proof of my identity? What?, men and women don't lie? I bet I can drag in two to Claim they are my Mom and Dad will you believe them? How does their witness identify me?
However, your response goes to societal trust - two or more witnesses. Will these be required to take an oath before the Ever Living - at Beersheba - the Well of Oaths? What if these are atheists?
Furthermore, will Mom and Dad show up every day to give their testimony of my Identity?
I just caught David's response regarding Photo. Photo will not get it. I can change every aspect of my appearance. How will you know it me tomorrow?
Please attempt to focus and stay on topic. The topic is Identity. Clearly a Name is not identity.
Originally posted by David Merrill
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David Merrill you have gone to the meat of this matter. I thought for sure there would be many who would come with :
1. How I Sound; or
2. How I Look; or
3. My personality; or
4. My memory; or
5. My Soul; or
6. My Spirit; or
Yet none of these things is able to Identify me to you tomorrow. For Items 1 - 4 can be revised. Items 5 - 6 cannot be seen to the Physical World. Therefore how can the Physical World Identify a man?
Let me cut to the chase - It is IMPOSSIBLE. If you think it possible - then enter the arena - and lets get it on.
Therefore, since it is impossible for a man to be identified from day to day - Persons were created.....Selah....
And now, because I just can't help myself, from Acts 17 - the Commonwealth of Yisra'el:
Act 17:26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
Act 17:27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
Act 17:28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
As in I trust in Him. Yet, how do I know you are who you say you are when dealing in commercial affairs. Why your twin brother may just show up and confuse me. Do we need a third party or can i trust in you?
The only way to overcome the problem of Identity is to TRUST. You either Trust in a third Party or you Trust the living soul before you. Yet at the end of the day, the problem of Identity still exists as even the best "devices" can be overcome by a skillful man.
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