So...who exactly gets to see the WHOLE elephant?
I was reading a certain book recently, and it brought up this question and got me thinking...Many of you may have heard the old story of the blind men and the elephant. A bunch of blind men find this elephant...one feels the leg and thinks it's a tree, one feels the trunk and compares it to something else, one feels the tusk and thinks it is something else, etc. The point is that they are all feeling parts of the same thing, but all of them are wrong--what they are feeling is, in fact, an elephant. This story has been compared to seekers of different religions--it asserts that these people are finding elements of the same truth, but they are basically all wrong; they only see part of the big picture of truth. However, in order to tell the story, someone has to know that it's actually an elephant; in other words, someone has to see the truth. Who is it? Is the nonreligious person, or the storyteller, more arrogant than the seekers because he claims to "see" more than they do? How then can the nonreligious person really say that it's true that there is no absolute truth? Is it possible that God is the one who sees the elephant and that He is the one who reveals to men that it's an elephant? Could it be possible that God is the one who knows and chooses to reveal all truth? I know--that's more than one question. Have fun.
