How to live and act with the knowledge that one might not be right?

[cho_pilo]

Any thoughts?

 

[puzzleannie]

right about what:
right about doctrine and moral teaching, consult the Church to instruct your ignorance and clear up doubts
right about March Madness match-ups? just bet your best hunch

in any case cultivate the virtue of humility and admit that the greatest minds of several centuries may possibly, collectively, know more than you or I do.

 

[phoooiee]

If one can develop trust, and love, this becomes much easier. Without these, it is almost impossible.

 

[warpspeedpetey]

Any thoughts?

All human knowledge is ultimately based on induction. So in the technical sense, every idea depends on probability and not certainty. (even Cogito Ergo Sum has criticisms, though I think it silly)

Every human being including you and I live everyday with the knowledge that we might not be right.

So everyday of your life, answers your own question. How have you been living and acting?

Me?, I just keep truckin’

 

[tonyrey]

1. Obey your conscience
2. Enlighten your conscience by study, discussion and consultation
3. Pray for guidance
4. Do not cause unnecessary suffering
5. Choose what you believe to be the greater good and the lesser evil
6. Never act hastily
7. Base your conduct on the fact that life is immensely valuable
8. Remember that your love outweighs your mistakes
9. Have the courage of your convictions but constantly examine them
10. Follow the example of Jesus

 

[fhansen]

Any thoughts?

I believe that we humans have a “built-in” need or desire to be right-a preference for it, really, often without regard for, or even in spite of, the truth of the matter. This preference is directly related to the preference, alluded to in the Catechism, that man has for *himself *, over and above God.

The short answer to the question, ‘How to live and act with the knowledge that one might not be right?’, is actually to come to know that, at a basic, fundamental, level, we’re not right, but that Someone is, that the Truth does exist and reside somewhere, and so to give up our own self-righteousness, replacing it with His.This is the only way we can do it, IMO, and the only right way to do it. Then the world would be in order, oriented towards God, rather than everyone going around living and acting according to their own personal view of the truth, with whatever, sometimes awful, results that follow.

We need to understand a verse in Rom 3 which is related to this question, IMO: All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. This is not an easy or comfortable task for us humans but it’s probably the most important one we can undertake.

 

[Jesus_123]

:knight2:
"To thee, therefore,
my speech is now directed,
who giving up thine own will,
takest up the strong and most excellent arms of
obedience
to do battle for
Christ ** the Lord, ** the** True King."
- St. Benedict+
Humble

Obedience
by
Father John Corapi, S.O.L.T.

"Christ came to cast out the evil one and his works of lying and death, and did so through the **humble **obedience which led him always to accept the Father’s will, even unto

the death on the

• cross. + The essence of the diabolic is that pride and arrogance which leads to disobedience. This leads to fracturing and division. Stepping outside of the Truth **Who Is ****God Himself **results in this division.

Those who are most powerful in Christ through His Church, **Which **is called to fight against ** “the liar and father of lies, the murderer from the beginning” **(cf… Jn 8:42f) (the devil), are those who are most humbly obedient to God’s authority working through the Church.

The devil can do nothing when he comes up against those who obey most humbly Christ’s Church and Her teachings. On the other hand, he is most powerful and untiringly active working through those who imagine themselves to be above the Church’s teaching authority.

**Humility **

leads to obedience
which leads to Life.
Pride leads to disobedience,
which leads to death.
This is the lesson of the book of Genesis.
It is the lesson of the

• cross. +
  With the angels :angel1: of the Lord we **humbly **and **obediently **praise and give thanks to the **Father **through **Christ **in the power of the **Holy Spirit **for all that **God’s creative and redemptive power has wrought."