Part 3 (continued from response to our brother Kevin)

Bear with me.  I will get to your question.

You and I are not on the same page.  There is nothing wrong with that.  Indeed, I think it is likely that it is the same God supporting each of us (and brother Kevin, as well) on our separate pages.

How can that be?  Let me suggest an explanatory model.  First premise to the model: our conceptualizations of reality -- the reality that is God's creation -- are not reality itself (what Kant would call the "ding an such").  Any conceptualization is, at best, a simplification or an idealization of reality.  We can and do improve.  We just never get to perfect.  Indeed, perfection is probably an illusion.  Reality is what it is, and our conceptions can never get there.  This is so for physics (see the progression from Aristotle to Copernicus to Newton to Einstein), but it seems reasonable as a general matter.  Note the phrase, "semper reformanda" as applied to the church.

See Part 4.