Objectivity: The quality of a fair-minded inquirer concerned about truth. The nature of this quality is, however, controversial. One ideal of objectivity is that of the completely neutral, detached, emotionless, presuppositionless thinker, who occupies what Thomas Nagel has called "the view from nowhere" or sees the world as Baruch Spinoza described it, from a god-like viewpoint, "under the aspect of eternity." Objectivity in this sense is widely attacked by postmodern thinkers as an impossible and even undesirable ideal. However objectivity in this sense should be distinguished from the honestly of the person who really cares about the truth and is willing to respect contrary evidence. This kind of objectivity seems compatible with recognizing our human finitude and the ways in which our passions and assumptions can function as aids in the search for truth, rather than simply being distorting filters.11. C.Stephen Evans, Pocket Dictionary of Apologetics & Philosophy of Religion
(Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2002), pp. 83.
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I believe this is exactly what Jesus meant when he said unless you are born again, you shall not see the kingdom of God. Or when he said unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. I would add that unless we see the world as God sees it, were in for a continuous unperfected filter.
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