Wednesday, April 1, 2009

day 41

Feuerbach does not know faith.

Perhaps, the reason (or non-reason) why the fruits from the Tree of Knowledge were taken as the prior condition in which faith could later be introduced, is that it is through humanity that the human can come to know its own being (or mis-being), or better, the being of God. Knowledge, which separates us from animals, is the condition that conceals the paradise or closes us up despite the notion that Knowledge is necessary for progress. So from the narrow state of recognition, the introduction of Knowledge drove us out onto the open state of misrecognition, which Adam and Even then needed another masterstroke, and this is the non-knowledge condition of faith. This rapture, then provides the excellent condition for divine intervention, or the faith in which love is manifested as the absurd property that does not do anything - Abel versus Cain.

To this end, it is not enough that proper names are given. Knowledge alone is insufficient.
It is not that faith contradicts love.
Faith is love.

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