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Friday Fun Thread for April 28, 2023

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I haven't read Aquinas but I know he drew a distinction between truths that could be known by reason alone (e.g. the existence of God as first cause) and revealed truths that could only be known with the aid of faith (e.g. the divinity of Jesus). Is that the sort of thing you're talking about?

His position is that at some point you really do just need to have faith, but it's a type of faith that's consonant with reason, not opposed to it.

With a big emphasis on revelation there. There are plenty of things that we have only through revelation. Romans 1 lists a few things that can be known through creation, and then later in the book, Romans emphasized preaching. Psalm 19 goes from talking about creation to talking about God's personal revelation in his law (and uses different language for the two).