Mountains of Existential Challenges

Mark 11:23 “23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.”

Here are some informal thoughts on the verse.

Mountains may be regarded as large spiritual issues the Christian is challenging to overcome. Rather than taking the meaning of mountain literally, as if Mt. Everest ought to be cast into the Indian ocean, it may be interpreted as description of social and spiritual challenges, often within the Christian.

That criterion is interesting to the philosophical that are interested in epistemology-the theory of knowledge. That field advanced quite a lot in the 20th century. Empiricism was surpassed by Quine, Strawson and various analytic philosophers, yet existentialism and the problem of self-verifying knowledge that is expressed in the problem of solipsism persisted, and had a counterpart in the division of knowledge into categories of internal and external, or intentional and existential, that hadn't been addressed sharply enough by empiricism. The origins of the epistemological criterion was in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason.

Jesus Christ said in that the epistemological issues of whatever size may be overcome with faith. As the Christian is joined to the primary monistic field or kingdom of God through the grace of the Lord Jesus, it follows that subjective spiritual or psychological problems are eclipsed, as well as the power or significance of temporal problematic material objects, with faith in the primary monistic field Creator. The contingent field problems fade away, or are vacated perhaps.